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Relief, Borobudur Temple Compounds, Java, Indonesia
One of the world’s largest Buddhist monuments, which measures some 30,000 square feet, sits in the lush Kedu Valley on the Indonesian island of Java, where the forests teem with mangoes. The Borobudur Temple Compounds are covered with more than 1,000 narrative reliefs illustrating the Buddha’s life along with an abundance of plant life. Among the renderings of foliage decorating panels on the facades are detailed depictions of Mangifera
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