Karmawibhangga

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Traveling and visiting Borobudur have enthusiasm aims to know its monument more closely, learn about its history and admire the splendor and beauty of architectural art, as an appreciation and participation in maintaining and protecting the world cultural heritage site of Borobudur.

Your journey to Borobudur will send to an excellent trip with the hospitality of Pamong Carita who will guide you on a special tour to visit and explore history, admiring the beauty of the arts and architecture of Chandi Borobudur more closely.

One of the stories of the reliefs at Borobudur, which is at the foot of a hidden temple and is currently closed, is a relief written in the Karmawibhangga text, which is a story about worldly life and the law of cause and effect.

Wall of Karmawibhangga carvings on the southeast corner.

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Wall of the Foot Karmawibhangga

In accordance with the symbolic meaning at the foot of the temple, the reliefs that decorate the veiled Batur walls depict the law of karma. Karmawibhangga is a text that describes the teachings about karma, namely the cause and effect of good and evil actions.

The row of reliefs is not a series of stories, but each frame depicts a story that has a cause and effect relationship. This relief not only provides an illustration of human despicable actions accompanied by the punishment they will receive, but also human good deeds and rewards.

Overall, it is a depiction of human life in the cycle of birth - life - death (samsara) that never ends, and according to Buddhism, this chain will be ended on the way to perfection. Now only the southeastern part is open and can be seen by visitors. A complete photo of the Karmawibhangga relief can be seen at the Borobudur Museum on the north side of Borobudur temple.

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Kamadhatu

The feet or base symbolize a world that is still dominated by kama or lower desires in the realm of Buddhist cosmology. This section is mostly invisible and is covered by piles of stones which are thought to have been made to strengthen the construction of the temple.

On the original foot there are 160 story relief panels taken from the Karmawibhangga text which are currently hidden. A small part of the additional building in the southeast corner was opened so that several reliefs can be seen in this section. The additional andesite foot structure that covers the original foot has a volume of approximately 13,000 cubic meters.

The relief on this 'hidden foot' is devoted to the inexorable law of karma. The 160 panels do not tell a continuous story, but each provides one complete illustration of cause and effect. The first 117 relief panels show various actions that produce or result in the same result, while the other 43 relief panels show the many results that can follow from one type of action.

Blaming worthy activities, from gossip to murder, with appropriate purgatory punishments, and praise worthy activities, such as charity and pilgrimages to holy places, and subsequent rewards, are both featured. The pains of hell and the pleasures of heaven, and the scenes of everyday life are represented in the full panorama of samsara, the endless cycle of birth and death, the chains of all forms of delusional existence from which Buddhism escapes.

In 1885, accidentally during excavations, a hidden structure was discovered at the foot of Borobudur. At this hidden foot, there are relief panels of 160 frames, some of which tell the story of the Karmawibhangga text. On this wall relief panel there are carved characters which used to be instructions for carvers to create a scene in a relief image.

This original foot is covered by the addition of a stone structure that forms a fairly large courtyard, and its true function is still a mystery. Initially it was thought that the addition of these legs was to prevent the danger of the building collapsing.

However, another theory suggests that the addition of these legs was due to an error in the design of the original legs, and is not in accordance with Wastu Sastra, an Indian book on architecture and urban planning. The reasons for adding and making additional legs are carried out carefully by considering religious, aesthetic and technical reasons.

 Kamadhatu (Hidden Foot) on the southeast corner wall.

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