Sivaramamurti,Calambur. — Le stupa du Barabudur.

Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1961. VIII,86 pp. 42 plts with b./w. ills. Orig. softcover. 4to. (Publications du Musée Guimet. Recherches et documents d'art et d'archéologie, Tome 8).Art historical and archaeological book about the famous Borobudur temple on Java written by the Indian archaeologist and linguist C. Sivaramamurti. Translated into French by Geneviève Barthel. The author analyzes the iconography, the symbolism of Buddhist cosmology, and the unique architecture of the world's largest Buddhist monument. It is located in Central Java, Indonesia, near Magelang and approximately 40 km northwest of Yogyakarta. It was built in the 8th and 9th centuries (between 750 and 850 AD) under the reign of the Sailendra dynasty. The structure consists of 9 platforms (6 square and 3 round terraces), crowned by a large central main stupa and surrounded by 72 smaller, openwork stupas with Buddha statues.