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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: D. J. Stuart-Fox
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2002
• EAN: 9789067181464
• ISBN: 978-90-6718-146-4
• No. of pages: 476
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 239 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 757 g
• Series: Verhandelingen Van Het Koninkl
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture