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The pagoda-like Pelinggih Meru shrine of Pura Ulun Danu Bratan is a distinctive feature of a Balinese temple.. The term pura originates from the Sanskrit word (-pur, -puri, -pura, -puram, -pore), meaning "city," "walled city," "towered city," or "palace," which was adopted with the Indianization of Southeast Asia and the spread of Hinduism, especially in the Indosphere.
Besakih Temple (Balinese: ᬧᬸᬭᬩᭂᬲᬓᬶᬄ) is a pura Hindu temple in the village of Besakih on the slopes of Mount Agung in eastern Bali, Indonesia. It is the most important, largest, and holiest temple of Balinese Hinduism, [1] and one of a series of Balinese temples. Perched nearly 1000 meters up the side of Gunung Agung, it is an ...
This is a list of Hindu temples and their remains in Indonesia. Indonesia has been part of Indosphere of Greater India where sanskritization and Hinduism spread across Indonesia. [1] [2] Hindus in Indonesia are a multi-ethnic society consisting of different Indonesian ethnicities, such as Balinese, Javanese, Indian and other ethnic groups.
Temples received its name from an old temple on the foreground of the cliff. [8] It is the second wave break in the series. [17] [18] This wave is recognized by the heavy amount of swell it receives. [14] It is not a highly popular wave among surfers because it takes more effort to get out to it.
Pura Ulun Danu Beratan, or Pura Bratan, is a major Hindu Shaivite temple in Bali, Indonesia. The temple complex is on the shores of Lake Beratan in the mountains near Bedugul. The water from the lake serves the entire region in the outflow area; downstream there are many smaller water temples that are specific to each irrigation association .
Uluwatu Temple (Balinese: Pura (Luhur) Uluwatu) is a Balinese Hindu temple located on the south-western tip of the Bukit Peninsula in Uluwatu , Badung Regency, Bali, Indonesia. It is the only Balinese sea temple ( pura segara ) that is also one of the nine directional temples ( Pura Kahyangan Jagat [ 1 ] or Pura Kahyangan Padma Bhuwana ).
[a] He is at the origin of the chain of sea temples that surrounds Bali. Each of the sea temples was established within eyesight of the next. [3] Tanah Lot is one of the seven main sea temples, [8] located along the south-western coast Pura Batu Bolong, some 300 m north of Pura Tanah Lot. The Tanah Lot temple is close to the Balinese mythology.
Bali (English: / ˈ b ɑː l i /; Balinese: ᬩᬮᬶ) is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands.East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller offshore islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nusa Ceningan to the southeast.