THE BOROBUDUR SHIP EXPEDITION

BOROBUDUR SHIP AND THE BUDDHA IMAGE OF BOROBUDUR

A Borobudur ship is the 8th century wooden double outrigger sailing vessel of maritime Southeast Asia depicted in some bas reliefs of the Borobudur Buddhist monument in Central Java , Indonesia. This has been designated as World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The ships depicted on Borobudur were most likely the type of vessels used for trades and naval campaigns by the Shailendra and Srivijaya Thalassocracy empire that ruled the region around the 7th to the 13th century. The function of the outrigger was to stabilize the ship - a single or double outrigger canoe is the typical feature of the seafaring Austronesians vessels. It is considered by scholars to have been most likely type of vessel used for their voyages and exploration across Southeast Asia, Oceania and the Indian ocean