KIng Samaratungga gives his orders to the troops.

MAHAKARYA BOROBUDUR

The Legend of Mahakarya Borobudur when history comes to life

A spectacular show that takes you on a sensory odyssey through magnificent performance of light and sound and 250 Javanese traditional dancers.
You will be flash back in history during a time when this ancient wonder of the world was once centre of powerful kingdom.

The costumes of king, queen, prince, nobles and royal soldier and the people referred to the costumes depicted on the relief of Kamadhatu. Dance music used gamelan instrument Ageng (Slendro and Pelog) mixed with tambourine refers to traditional music instrument as depicted on the Borobudur Temple relief.

Floating above the landscape of Central Java like a series of concentric circles that forms a giant mandala, there is Borobudur Temple, the largest Buddhist monument in the world. Even though there is no written record of who built the temple first, it is believed that Borobudur Temple was built between AD 780 and 840 when the Sailendra dynasty ruled the region. The building was abandoned for centuries and buried beneath layers of volcanic ash from Mount Merapi with only local people knew of its existence.

In 1814, the British ruler of Java, Sir Thomas Stanford Raffles, appointed a team led by Cornelius to investigate a hill, which, according to many local inhabitants, was the site of an ancient monument. The discovery got the Borobudur Temple worldwide attention, but it was not until 1835 that the entire area of the temple has been cleared. Unfortunately, the Dutch colonial government gave away eight containers full of Borobudur statues as presents for the King Chulalongkorn of Siam during his visit to Indonesia in 1896. The relics are still on display in the National Museum of Bangkok.