The Borobudur Buddhist temple located on the Indonesian island of Java, 40 km (25 miles) northwest of Yogyakarta, the Borobudur is the most largest Buddhist temple in the world. The Borobudur temple was built over a period of some 75 years in the 8th and 9th centuries by the great kingdom of Sailendra, out of an estimated 2 million blocks of huge strong stone.
The Borobodur temple can be separated into three groups: base, body, and top, which resembles the 3 major division of like a human body. The temple base is a 123×123 meters (403.5×403.5 feet) square in size and 4 meters (13 feet) high of huge walls. The total temple surface area is approximately 2,500 m2. The temple body is composed of 5 square platforms each with diminishing heights. The top of temple is a monumental stupa with a main dome at the center . The dome has a height of 35 meters (115 feet) from the temple ground level.
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