Besakih Temple – The Mother Temple

>Bali is often mentioned as a thousand islands of the temple. Because in Bali has more than 11,000 construction of the temple. Even news that the outstanding amount is higher than the number of houses shrines of the population.

Mount Agung in Besakih

Of the many shrines in Bali, the largest temple is Pura Besakih in Karangasem. Precisely in the village of Besakih Rendang district. The largest temple in Bali, Pura Besaki also known as the center of all the shrines in Bali (the Mother Temple).

Pura Besakih standing at the foot of Mount Agung is the highest mountain in Bali. On March 18, 1963, Mount Agung eruptions and swallow not less than 1,000 inhabitants, and the destruction of villages, which in the surrounding areas. Pura Besakih once strange but not the same. In the distance is only 1 km from the summit of Mount Agung.

Besakih name often associated with Naga Basuki, the dragon figure in the confidence of the people around Mount Agung. Ancient in the Java language, the word means Besakih survivors.

Pura Besakih is a Hindu nation liturgy, which consists of 22 temple buildings. In the match with the concept of Tri Hita Karana balance in the relationship between human and nature gods. Structuring the temple building was adjusted that can represent the building structure as the natural symbolism of the balance.

Temple of Besakih Bali

Each direction in the Pura Besakih theater called the prince of the deity called “Dewa Catur Loka Pala” As a central axis or direction from the the improvement of the Grand Pura Besakih, the largest temple complex in the Pura Besakih. Pura Besakih upgrade Agung is the cult of Siva. In the east, upgrading Pura Agung Pura Besakih, there is a dark place Iswara worship gods, in the south, there are Kidul Kereteg Pura that is a place of worship that god Brahma, in the west are Pura Ulun KulKul a cult Mahadewa God, and in the north, there are Madeg stone temple is a cult Places gods Vishnu.

Pura Besakih in religious rituals often known by the name “piodalan“. The peak of the whole ritual of the fall once every hundred years and called Eka Dasa rudra.


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October 25, 2008 | Posted on Tourism Destination
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