Work
Borobudur
Explore in the Atlas →A colossal ninth-century Mahayana Buddhist stupa-mountain built under the Sailendra dynasty, its terraced reliefs and crowning stupas form a three-dimensional cosmological mandala to be walked as a pilgrimage of ascent.
Ritual Memory Fantasy
Details
- Type
- Building
- Location
- Central Java, Indonesia
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Revelation cosmology
- Subject
- Human centred
- Cosmological orientation
- MandalaAxis mundi
- Degree of codification
- Highly codified
- Mode of transmission
- ApprenticeshipText drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- South asianCross cultural cosmological
Connections
- exemplifies Buddhist Architecture
Sources
- John Miksic. Borobudur: Golden Tales of the Buddhas. Periplus Editions, 1990.
- UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Borobudur Temple Compounds (World Heritage List 592). UNESCO, 1991.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Borobudur." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/borobudur/. Accessed July 17, 2026.