EVENTS AT BOROBUDUR

Waisak Day

 

A major festival in the Buddhist Calendar, Waisak day celebrates the birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha Siddharta Gautama. Borobudur is a central meeting point for Buddhists from all over Indonesia, and around the world on this auspicious day held every year, on a full moon in either April or May each year.

Each year one of a series of Buddhist organisations take the lead in the festivities, which include a procession from Mendut temple through to Pawon temple and then Borobudur. Depending on the organiser of the year, the emphasis is slightly different, but it is always colourful and filled with festivity and food

The around 15,000 participants stretch for over a kilometre on the walk to
Borobudur, where they settle before a dias with Borobudur as a backdrop.

The thousands sit and join together in repeating mantras, is a powerful and humbling experience. Then a meditation begins, with a complete silence. Intense.

MAHAKARYA AT BOROBUDUR

The Aksobya open air theatre of Borobudur hosts a very special Javanese dance event once each year in June.

The Mahakarya is the story behind the conception of the temple through to
the construction, interweaving the stories of the Saliendra dynasty and local
life of the 8^th Century.

 

 

200 performers in traditional costumes with a full gamelan orchestra to
provide music are completed with a backdrop of a temple lightshow.

This is a contemporary piece, the result of a collaboration between local communities, dancers from Solo’s Art School and historians.
For the date of the next performance please contact our Visitor Assistance Centre.

Ticket prices are as follows:

PLATINUM CLASS SEATING	IDR 800.000
GOLD CLASS SEATING	IDR 600.000
SILVER CLASS SEATING	IDR 400.000
FESTIVAL CLASS SEATING	IDR 300.000