Touching Bellies

Borobudur
Jogya, Indonesia

Borobudur is made of black rock with stone tablet carvings of the life of the Buddha. The tablets occupy whole walls all over the temple’s terraces. It’s like reading a comic book, but instead of two dimensional prints, you get scenes etched in stone. The topmost terrace contains huge stone bells with square openings called stupas. Inside each stupa is a Buddha with an enchanting smile akin to Leonardo’s Mona Lisa. Legend has it that touching the Buddha’s belly brings good luck. So there we go hopping on the bells reaching through the openings straining hard to touch those bellies....
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