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This Hindu temple is situated at elevation of 910 meter above sea level in Berjo village.The temple located in Sukuh, Tawang Mangu district about 35 kilometers east direction from Solo, Situated on the slope of Mount Lawu, about 970 meters on the sea level.Sukuh is a temple that has any erotic relief carved on the [...]
The Ceto temple located in Gumeng village, excavated in 1842 by Van der Vlis. Built in XV century, Ceto temple has entrances resembling Balinese temple today. After the entrance, multilevel terrace spans east to west. The highest point of this temple is the Nirvana Peak in the reactangular shape.
Ulun Danu Temple is a Balinese Hindu Temple located at Candi Kuning countryside, Baturiti sub district and Tabanan regency. The distance from Denpasar town is about 50 km north side the way from Denpasar to Singaraja. It is set at lakeside of Beratan with beautiful lake view and hills surround it.
It consists of a couple of shrines built on an outcropping of rocks just offshore the coast, thus becomes an islet at high tide. Tanah means earth, and lot means sea. The temple symbolize the point of encounter between natural and cosmic elements: male female, inner world, outer world.
The greatest of all Balinese sanctuaries, Pura besakih, is the witness of the great natural power barely presented by Mount Agung looming above. Its stunning look presents the harmonious combination of religi and nature. The temple complex, about 22 temples in all, is built separately in such a distance of more than one kilometer.
Yet in 16th century, it was rebuilt by a reformer priest, Pedanda Wawu Rauh. After experiencing some renovations in 1949 and 1980, the temple shows off the old and new structural combination.Besides the temple, Uluwatu is now becoming famous among the surfing experts that dare to challenge the surf break.
Pura Besakih is a sanctuary over a thousand years old and is known as the Mother Temple of Bali. The greatest of all Balinese sanctuaries perched high on the slopes of Mount Agung it’s the holiest of all Balinese temples present. With 22 separate structures, the temples were built between the 14th and the 17th [...]
The Borobodur Temple complex is one of the greatest monuments in the world. It is of uncertain age, but thought to have been built between the end of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century A.D. For about a century and a half it was the spiritual centre of Buddhism in Java, then it [...]
