The Largest Buddhist Monument in the World Had Been Buried for a Thousand Years When Stamford Raffles Asked About It
Borobudur is a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist monument on the central plain of Java — 2,672 relief panels, 504 buddha statues, six concentric square terraces topped by three circular ones. It had been abandoned by about 1100 AD and buried under volcanic ash and jungle vegetation for the next seven centuries. [Stamford Raffles](/articles/stamford-raffles-singapore) heard about it in 1814 and sent a survey team.
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