•It is thought that Borobudur was built like a giant mandala or yantra(religious diagram).
•If we look at the design of this monument from above, we can see the geometrical configuration of a mandala, as we have seen in Tibetan and Shingonart.
•But at the same time is was a kind of artificial mountain, matching the Javanese reverence for mountains, which they regarded as the homes of gods. This shrine also conformed to the magical mountain (Sumeru) of Buddhist cosmology.