Pura Besakih: Temple, Religion and Society in Bali

By David J. Stuart-Fox

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000YFUR22
• ISBN13: 9789067181464
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"