February 24
“There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator...” ― Blaise Pascal
As a Christian, I believe the complete quote from Pascal, which continues with "made known through Jesus Christ." But today, we visited the ten story high step pyramid of Borobudur, the largest Buddhist temple in the world, and saw a visual representation of the world view of the Buddha in this structure which was buried under the ash of simultaneous volcanic eruptions around 1006 and lay hidden under the thick growth of the ever encroaching jungle until it was rediscovered in the 1800's.
I'll share another post of my responses to what we saw and experienced, but I want to take an opportunity to sneak this through the Viking wifi.
More soon...
Amazing that such a building could be covered under ash. The excavation work must have been incredible.
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