PHOTO OF THE DAY July 6, 2005  

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Where Near Majalang, Java, Indonesia
When 1982
Photographer Dean Conger

Home to hundreds of Buddha statues, the 1,200-year-old Borobudur temple is the world's largest Buddhist monument.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Indonesia Rescues Ancient Borobudur," January 1983, National Geographic magazine)


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