Ruins of Buddhistic temples in Pragä valley: Tyandis Barabudur, Mendut and Pawon (1912)
Groneman, I. (Isaac), 1832-1912 · Semarang, H.A. Benjamins · leaf 36
centuries ago. I suppose that, when their predecessors left India for Java, theyare likely to have brought a vase or urn containing some realor pretended ashes of the Buddha himself in order to bury themunder a simple hill or in an artless dagob as soon as they hadreached the place of their… … — 27 — worship of the beUevers, and to make them suppose as if this hillor cairn were the real grave of the Master himself. But after a lapse of an uncountable number of years or, perhapssome centuries, this colony became a large and powerful empire,and — just as the Christians first assembled in…
Temples, Buddhist · Temples -- Java
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