Head to Indonesia's Borobudur for some ancient stories told on stone


A Buddha statue at Borobudur. — Photos: SANDIP HOR

British statesman Stamford Raffles is noted worldwide as the founder of modern Singapore but not many know him as the discoverer of the iconic Borobudur Temple in Indonesia.

Regarded as one of the world’s greatest Buddhist monuments, it was built around the eighth and ninth centuries during the golden period of the successive Hindu and Buddhist dynasties, Sanjaya and Saliendra.

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