Besakih Temple

Besakih is the biggest Hindu temple in Bali which the local people call Pura Besakih. It is owns beautiful view from the top of temple area where we can see the wide nature panorama until to the ocean.,so that...this temple is many visited by tourists from all the world. It is located in Rendang subdistrict,Karangasem regency,east part of the island.It is located in slope of mount Agung the highest mounts in Bali. Besakih temple is situated in cool area with the light breeze and unique temple building,spread out in the temple complex will create the peaceful atmosphere.It si ideally for the people who did meditation and now.

Besakih Temple is a complex of temples in Bali that are located in Besakih Village,The complex consists of 18 temple and 1 mean temple.Besakih Temple is the center of activities for all temples in Bali. Among all pretend that included in the complex Besakih Temple, Pura Agung is the temple Upgrading the largest, most buildings shrines, most types Ceremony and is the center and all existing temples in Besakih. In the temple there are 3 statues General Upgrading main Tri Murti Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva who is the symbol of God the Creator, Preserver and gods fuser. The physical presence of buildings Besakih Temple, not only to become the largest place of worship on the island of Bali, but inside it has a background connection with the meaning of Mount Agung. A highest mountain on the island of Bali which is believed to be spirits and the gods of nature. So fitting that on the Southwest slope of Mount Agung created shrines of Besakih philosophical meaning. The meaning of the philosophical be contained in Besakih in its development containing cultural elements include: knowledge systems, Equipment and technology, Social Organizations, civic life, livelihood, Religion and language system of the ceremony, and the arts. The seven elements of culture that is manifested in the form of cultural ideas, forms of cultural activity, and a manifestation of cultural material. It already appeared at both before pre-Hindu and Hindu period has experienced growth through a mythic stage, stage of ontology and the functional phase.

Besakih as objects of research related to the social life of the community culture in the Regency of Karangasem Bali. Based on a study, building physical Besakih has experienced the development of hindu culture with evidence of pre-relics of the Menhir, Punden Perundak-undak, Arca, which evolved into the building of Meru(pagoda), Pelinggih, Gedong and Padmasan(shrines) as a result of the Hindu culture. Background of the existence of a physical building Besakih temple on the slopes of Mount Agung is a place of worship to worship the god of the mountain is conceived as the supreme god's palace. At that stage of human functional Bali finds himself as a gay man has a religious and social nature of religious cultures, that culture-related activity is always associated with the teachings of Hinduism. In the Hindu culture of Bali, it turns out the meaning of Besakih temple identified as part of the development of social culture of the Balinese began pre-Hindu is heavily influenced by changes in the elements of culture that flourished, thus affecting cultural change in the form of ideas, a form of cultural activity and cultural form material. The changes are related to the doctrine Tattwa concerning the concept of God, Tata-moral teachings that govern how the Hindus in behavior, and teaching arrangements in the ceremony is a ritual activity from people offering to his Lord, so that the third tenet is a unity in the teachings of Hinduism in Bali.

The Besakih Temple is opened for tourists and it is the great place to visit in Bali.