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Walid Haddad, Jātaka, the Buddhas Past Birth-Stories, 02

Posted on June 20, 2025June 20, 2025 by Dharma Documentaries
The second of two videos describing the panels on the lower register of the first level at Borobudur.

Jātaka, the Buddha’s Past Birth-Stories, 02

This is the second of a two-part series on the heavily damaged reliefs on the lower register of the level one balustrade at Borobudur. Most of these seem to be panels depicting kings interacting with various people, visitors, monastics and Pratyeka Buddhas; and people worshipping stūpas, or processing towards them.

One notable thing about this collection is that it features a fair amount of nuns, and the last few reliefs in this series are all about nuns. One of the major difficulties is that the damage is so bad on some of the panels as to render them almost indecipherable.

These two videos utilize my photographs, and more or less paraphrase my descriptions also. For a more leisurely look at the photos, you can visit the webpage.

 

if the video does not appear on the page, try reloading the page; and if that doesn’t work, leave a comment so I can update the page (the comment is not published)

 

to see an album of screenshots click here

 

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