Walking monks on final stopovers before Borobudur temple in Indonesia

Buddhist monks walk past the Semarang and Ungaran administrative border in Central Java on May 29 as they perform a walking pilgrimage from Thailand to the Borobudur temple. - Jakarta Post/ANN

JAKARTA, June 3 (Jakarta Post/ANN): Thirty-two Buddhist monks have finally arrived in Magelang, Central Java, home of the famous Borobudur temple, where they plan to join ceremonies to celebrate Waisak that marks the birth, enlightenment and death of Gautama Buddha, on Sunday (June 4).

The group began their long-distance pilgrimage, also known as thudong, at the end of March from Nakhon Si Thammarat, southern Thailand, walking for 10 days to Malaysia and then for 29 days to Singapore.