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Lake Tamblingan is the smallest lake inside the caldera. [2] The lake location, over a 1000 meter high plateau, gives it an alpine climate. [3] Pristine rainforest with orchids and macaques covers the shore of Lake Tamblingan. Only one village exists on the shore of Lake Tamblingan, the village of Gubug, at the southern shore of the lake. [2 ...
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 .
Bedugul is a mountain lake resort area in Bali, [1] Indonesia, located in the centre-north region of the island near Lake Bratan on the road between Denpasar and Singaraja. The area covers the villages of Bedugul itself, Candikuning, Pancasari, Pacung and Wanagiri amongst others. Jati Luwih rice terraces, Bedugul, Bali.
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The word Pura means "temple", while the two words ulun ("head" or "source") and danu ("lake", referring to Lake Batur) are translated as "lake source"; and so the temple name means "Lake Source Temple". The word batur, after the village of Batur where the temple is located, means "pure" or "spiritually clean". The definition of Pura Ulun Danu ...
With Buddhism, monks came to the area and chiseled Buddha statues out of the flanks of the hill, which was originally called Miji Hill or Li Hill. A temple, called the Thousand Buddha Temple (Qianfosi), was founded at the foot of the hill. Eventually, the hill was renamed after the temple into "Thousand Buddha Mountain".
Map of the West Lake in Hangzhou, China, with the location of Lingyin Temple Buddhist monks chanting at Lingyin Temple, Hangzhou, October 2010.. Lingyin Temple (simplified Chinese: 灵隐寺; traditional Chinese: 靈隱寺; pinyin: Língyǐn Sì) is a prominent Chan Buddhist temple near Hangzhou that is renowned for its many pagodas and grottos. [1]
The Ganden Sumtsenling Monastery, also known as Sungtseling and Guihuasi [1] (Tibetan: དགའ་ལྡན་སུམ་རྩེན་གླིང་, Wylie: dga' ldan sum rtsen gling, THL: ganden sumtsenling; Chinese: 松赞林寺, pinyin: Sōngzànlín Sì), is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery situated 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the city of Shangri-La at elevation 3,380 metres (11,090 ft) in ...