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Pages in category "Sacred mountains of Indonesia" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The sacred mountains have all been important destinations for pilgrimage by laymen, monks and emperors for centuries, with the Chinese expression for pilgrimage (朝圣; 朝聖; cháoshèng) being a shortened version of an expression which means "paying respect to a holy mountain" (朝拜圣山; 朝拜聖山; cháobài shèng shān).
Dieng is a plateau that has many springs and is surrounded by mountains so that it is possible to become a sacred place. In Hindu cosmology, Shiva is a deity who inhabits a sacred mountain called Kailash. [13] He is a god who is synonymous with mountains and has another name as Girisa or Girindra which means "god of the mountain". [14]
Mount Lawu is the home of the God Parwatarajadewa (also called Hyang Girinatha in the manuscript Serat Centhini). The New Javanese manuscript Serat Manikmaya states that Mount Lawu is part of the eighteen sacred mountains of Central Java, and scholars agree that it had great religious significance to the Hindus of Java.
It is the highest mountain on the island of Java. The name "Semeru" is derived from Meru, the central world mountain in Hinduism, or Sumeru, the abode of gods. This stratovolcano is Mahameru, meaning "The Great Mountain" in Sanskrit. [4] [1] It is one of the more popular hiking destinations in Indonesia.
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The lake and mountain are sacred to the Sasak people and Hindus, and are the site of religious rituals. [3] UNESCO made Mount Rinjani Caldera a part of the Global Geoparks Network in April 2018. [5] Its catastrophic eruption in 1257 was the largest volcanic eruption in the last 2000 years. [6]
This is a list of all 270 mountains in or bordering Indonesia which have a topographic prominence of at least 1,000 m (3,300 ft) (named "ribus" from the Indonesia word for "thousand") along with 115 less prominent peaks which are considered to have significant tourist interest, known as "spesials".