BOROBUDUR’S RELIEFS: DEPICTING SANSKRIT BUDDHIST TEXTS – TAASA Review September 2023

John Miksic B orobudur was first brought to international attention during the British interregnum in Java during the Napoleonic Wars in the first decades of the 19th century.

The lieutenant governor of the Dutch colony of Java while the Netherlands were under French rule, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, had a deep interest in history and antiquities.

He sent officials through Java to search for evidence of Java’s past...