Pura Besakih: Temple, Religion and Society in Bali (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 193)

Thông tin sách: Pura Besakih: Temple, Religion and Society in Bali (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 193) (Paperback, 470 trang) – Brill, 2002. Ngôn ngữ: Tiếng Anh.

Pura Besakih is the paramount Hindu temple on Bali. Located high on the slopes of the volcano Mt Agung, it has developed over more than a thousand years into a great complex of 22 separate temples, the largest and central being Pura Penataran Agung. The annual cycle of more than seventy rituals, which symbolically link the temples into a whole, culminates in the centenary ceremony called Ekadasa Rudra (last held in 1979). The temple complex, state-supported at least since the fifteenth century, has undergone a series of architectural and ritual changes.This study combines an analysis of textual and historical sources with the fieldwork methods of anthropology in creating a unified interpretation of this great temple.