A little adventure outside Borobodur

I first spotted what looked like a temple from the terraces of the Borobudur temple. Then while we were heading out to visit the Mendut temple, I saw that it was just across the padi fields from the Manohara hotel. We decided to go and check it out. Rather than following the paved roads, we decided to cut through the padi fields.

It was an interesting walk through the padi fields. The scent of fresh manure was in the air. Grasshoppers scattered ahead as we walked through. Dragon flies danced around us. Ducks waded across the fields. The farmers greeted us with amusement.


The structure of curiosity turned out to be a Tibetan Buddhist temple, called the Padmasambava temple. The main hall was spacious with bare adornment. I asked the care taker if there were Buddhists in the village of Borobudur. I was told that there were none. There were no monks or lamas either. The rinpoche would come once in a while and the temple is used mainly during Vesak.

The caretaker lead us up to the roof top of the temple to show us the "sleeping Buddha". That turned out to be a outline of the distant hills that looked looked like the profile of a face.
	The roof top has a nice view of the surroundings and we could see the Borobudur temple as well.

It was definitely an interesting side-trip.