It is 5:40 a.m. and, directly on cue, the sun rises slowly over the horizon, silhouetting volcanic Mount Merapi and casting early-morning light on the majestic Buddhist temple of Borobudur. Tourists ...

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This famous Buddhist temple, dating from the 8th and 9th centuries, is located in central Java. It was built in three tiers: a pyramidal base with five concentric square terraces, the trunk of a cone ...

Visiting the world’s largest Buddhist temple is about to get expensive. Borobudur, one of Indonesia’s most popular attractions, will soon be subjected to a massive price hike by government authorities ...

Two hundred years ago, British statesman Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles rediscovered the sprawling temple of Borobudur on a remote hilltop in Java, Indonesia, hidden under a tangle of thick jungle. Today ...

Every year, Buddhists all around the world flock to sacred temples to commemorate Wesak, one of the most important Buddhist festivals marking the birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha. But did you ...

I am in the Indonesian island of Java - just a few degrees south of the equator. It's hot and it's humid, but I, and hundreds of other people on this steamy early morning, am about to set off on a ...

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