The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-26

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is the fernr1e I'd Ran, polo. il is not
,r,ife SQUARE b7,.',-.-,-,- -r each sid. being
about 81 feet IN 1.s,.-f .- is entirely built
Of blocks az bIa,.l, r...- ay-assiyeIv hard.
to which ouaIft,. s....,..-- il owes its
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r- [C-sf-.s 80 49,. -... n v,-qr1e and
terraces. decreazfng b. III. until they Gull
inmate in a Ie,-eI g-..a In the center of
which stands a sperIa- of dome about fifty
feet in diameter containing a gigantic
statue of T2uddba -r..- dome Is surround
ed nv three circles If towers constructed
of lattice work of s.5-- each enshrinfng
an IMAGE Of RuI771. -aver.t,--tv-o i'm all
DESCENDING ono ,.a...s ~, successive ter
races. the walls of which on the inside
are covered with fa--r-UaF- Illustrating
everything uertainfrr 10 the life of the
forgotten race which H5urished when the
temple was built These bas-reliefs are
executed in high -r-Ia of art and are.
altogether, over two miles in length. on
the outside Of the terraces. at regular in
tervals, are sitting images of Buddha.
which certainly number not less than 400,
and possibly double that
These figures are somewhat over life
size, being three feet in hight as they sit.
The hight of the building is about 100 feet.
exclusive Of the dome. which is in a par
TALLY ruinous condition. and OF which
about twenty feet sdll stand. The temple
is not one mass Of solid masonry, but is
built around the conicsl hill until the base
of the dome is reached.
Leading up to the temple is a broad ave-
nue. with animals Of stone on either side.
while two lions stand guard at the foot
OF the stairway of lava.
Who built the Boro B01O2 At what era
did II first swarm with priests and devo-
tees? We have no records Of any sort
TO guide us. 1t is asserted by some that
the temple derives its name from Boro,
the district in which it is situated, and
Bodo, ancient; while others think it is
a corruption of Bara. great. ana Buddha.
The latter is most probably correct and
the district has taken the name from
the temple. The statues at Boro Bodo are.
10 all appearances, images Of Buddha;
ana no statues of unIOubted Brahminical
origin are to be seen i'm the building, al
though one was once discovered in an
adjacent field; and in ruins at no great
distance are many armed figures evil
IDENTIFY of some Brahmiuical god.
1t is hard to mistake an intended like
ness of Buddha, Tor even the most inferior
artlst throughout the east seems success
tul in imparting to the countenance that
smile of utter contempt for human affairs
which all, and Buddha most of all, must
feel in Nirvana. At BramDannan, about
thirty-fve miles distant, as we have seen,
are statues clearly traCeable to votaries
of Brahma. We know that in India the
two religions f1ourished side by side until
a period when a bitter rivalry having
arisen, the milder cult of Buddha was for
chilly supplanted by the wierd and fantas-
tic gods of the Brahmins
Whether Buddhism met similar fate
in Java it is impossible to say, there being
no reliable records until the conversion of
the people to Mohammedanism In the If
| teenth century. Some writer's aave con-
jectured that the sway of the Eindoos