Pura Besakih: Temple, Religion and Society in Bali

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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

David J. Stuart-Fox was educated at the University of Sydney and the Australian National University in Canberra. He is currently librarian at the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: D. J. Stuart-Fox
• Verlag: Brill
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.01.2002
• EAN: 9789067181464
• ISBN: 978-90-6718-146-4
• Seiten: 476
• Abmessung: 161 mm x 239 mm x 25 mm
• Gewicht: 757 g
• Serie: Verhandelingen Van Het Koninkl
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Architektur