stone preparation techniques on the Borobudur temple

Borobudur is a magnificent work of art, made the building one of the most amazing human Indonesia. Punden shaped temple is divided into 6 levels is a Buddhist temple built around the 8th century. so roughly 1200 years old already.

one of the statues at the temple of Borobudur

Borobudur temple is made of thousands of stone composition is structured in such a way that it can form a series of building a very strong and sturdy and even thousands of years. For most communities in Yogyakarta and Central Java, they believe that the temple Borobudur temple is magical. they believe that the arrangement of stones on the temple Borobudur just glued together with egg white.





So the question, is it? there has not been a definitive answer from the question this. faith communities in Yogyakarta and Central Java, Borobudur temple will be the story that simply glued together with egg white is inherited from ancestors Borobudur society for generations. anyways it is not possible if the composition of Borobudur stones glued together with cement (right 8th century, three wheel cement factory no) hehehe.

If it were true that Borobudur is only glued to the eggs, then you can imagine how many eggs will be spent for the placard thousands of Borobudur Temple is a stone structure, but it could be possible given the antiquity of Javanese society really believe in the things unseen and rather smelly controversy.

Borobudur temple is very beautiful

In reality, Borobudur stone structure composed by locking technique, which is a technique similar to a jigsaw puzzle. this can be seen in the composition of the stones on the bottom and the gate. So part of the stone that will be developed are formed in such a way as to be prepared with a locking technique (lock and key). This is roughly the picture.

lock and key techniques in the preparation of the stone temple of Borobudur

So arguably, the process of making the Borobudur temple is already using a high-tech (for the size of the 8th century, lock and key technique is advanced in the world technology development). This can be seen in the photo below, it appears that a piece of stone was placed by lockdown

But I also did not say that the use of the egg is groundless, because after investigation, it turns out the egg white has a high gluten content. Even some brands of glass glue in Indonesia using egg white as the base ingredients, who knows only the Gunadarma (Borobudur temple architect) already know the secret glue the eggs since the 8th century.