Artist: unknown
Title: The Great Stupa/Mount Meru at Borobudur, detail of a Amitahba
on the west side.
Material: volcanic rock
Site: Borobudur, Central Java, Indonesia
Current Location: in situ
Period/Date: ca. end of the 8th - beginning of the 9th century,
under the Shailendra Dynasty
Iconography/Iconology: See iconographic
page for a discussion of the iconography.
Stylistic Comments: Repating images of four of the five jina, or
victor, Buddhas occur in a series of niches that line the first three ambulatory
terraces of the monument. Each Buddha is within hiis own shrine and was
originally flanked by bodhisattvas.
