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| Buddhists walk through East Java's Borobudur Temple during Indonesia's Vesak Day celebrations on Sunday. (JG Photo / Boy T Harjanto) |
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Buddhists
urged the Indonesian government to preserve East Java’s Borobudur temple as
they massed on Mendut temple for the Buddhist holiday Vesak Day on Sunday.
The
ninth-century temple — a Unesco World Heritage Site — is a popular pilgrimage
site for Indonesia’s Buddhists during the Vesak Day, a holy celebration of
Gautama Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and death. Students of the Indonesian
Buddhist Students Group (Hikmahbuddhi) printed more than 5,000 brochures,
handing them out to tourists and local residents on Sunday.
The
students also hung banners calling for the temple’s preservation and helped
clean the temple grounds of rubbish.
“We are
working together with the local people for Borobudur preservation,” Hikmahbudi
Chairwoman Ivana said in Magelang, East Java on Sunday.
Vesak Day
is celebrated on various dates across the globe, usually coinciding with the
first full moon of May. Each nation’s Buddhists hold their own celebrations.
In
Indonesia, Buddhists gather for prayers at Borobudur’s Mendut temple.
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