In Balinese Hindu’s life is about the ceremony, because religion is very much integrated into it. The Balinese Hindu said it is for balancing life. One of those ceremonies is a 3-month Balinese baby ceremony. Read more “3 Months Balinese Baby Ceremony”
According to legend, Bali and Java were one island before. It starts with a Brahmin story called Sidi Mantra. He is very powerful and very rich. Also, he has a beautiful wife. After a couple of years of marriage, he and his wife got a son named Manik Angkara.
While holidaying in Bali you may see an unique outfit of Balinese in temple or at some event. Women wear kebaya and men wear something in their head with white shirt and something like skirt, but that is the Balinese traditional outfits.
Balinese always using it when they go to the temple, or some traditional ceremony like marriage, Galungan, Kuningan etc.
Here we explain to you! Read more “BALI TRADITIONAL OUTFITS”
At the foot of Mount Abang there is one village that less touch by the outside, it called Trunyan village, which knows as a village that never doing a cremation or buried the dead people unlike the most village in Bali or Indonesia.
Read more “Trunyan Village : An Unique Cemetery in Bali”
History of Batik in Bali began 1970 and pioneered by Pande Ketut Krisna, he came from Banjar Tegeha, Batu Bulan Village, Sukawati – Gianyar Bali.
Batik come from word ‘ambatik’ which means ‘a cloth with little dots’. The word of Batik also originale from Javanese word ‘tritik’ which can describe the process of making Batik it self.
Batik is well known in Java island, but Bali has it to with it’s own typical characteristics of Balinese batik.
Bali is not like other Indonesian islands because ,ore than half of the population in Bali is Hindu.
I was wondering when i visited Tanah Lot, I met an Indian, I asked her, is Hindu Bali and Hindu India are the same? As we know that India is the country that spreaded Hinduism and Hindu became a prominent religion around 5th until the 14th century.
And she answered ‘no, i dont think so because i saw many differences’
and here we go Read more “Understanding the differences between Bali’s hinduism and India’s hinduism”
When you traveling in Bali or another island in Indonesia, you may be caught up with many children use uniform red white, or blue-white, or grey-white, yups they are Indonesian student. Read more “Indonesian School Life”
Bali is a rich island with its culture. Now we will talk about the traditional music of Bali. Same with his neighbor, Java island Bali use Gamelan too as his traditional instrument music. Gamelan is a traditional music ensemble of Java and Bali, typically including many bronze percussion instruments. The word Gamelan comes from Javanese word that has means ‘to strike with a mallet’. Read more “Gamelan: The Traditional Music Instrument in Bali”
Saraswati is the one of Hindu Gods represented as a beautiful woman that has knowledge like a river flow. She will give help or enlightenment to everyone who is willing to study. Saraswati is the goddess of knowledge and arts. She has 4 arms, every arm symbolizing a different concept. Her immanence and transcendence, her front arm illustrated the Goddess activity in the material realm and the back arm is the spiritual realm. The four arms also represent the four elements of the inner life which include mind, intellect, ego, and consciousness.
Saraswati is illustrated as a very beautiful woman with four arms. holding (and playing) a zither, scriptures and rosary beads. It means that Saraswati is Goddess of arts too, that reminds us to live in harmony with the others and the world. Saraswati has 2 holy animals as her conveyance. The swan represents beauty and the ability of knowledge to filter good and bad habits. The peacock represents beauty and dance, along with the swan it becomes a vehicle to deliver the knowledge given by God. The last thing, Sarasawati sit on a big white lotus that represents purity and knowledge, it symbolizes to remain untouched by bad or negative influences which may surround an individual. Read more “Saraswati Celebration : The day of knowledge and arts”
If you traveling around Bali, you may see small palm leaf-basket box with a combination of colorful flower (and at some point accidentally step on), that is Bali’s offerings. These offerings called Canang Sari. Canang means a palm basket of flower and sari mean the essence. In most Hindu temples, house, the street, you will see the new offering every day with a fresh flower, money coin, or a little snack inside the palm basket, and a burning incense stick is placed on the top of the offerings.
You will see Canang Sari everywhere, on the sidewalks, streets, stairwells, ledges, temple, or in front of Balinese house. Read more “Bali’s Offerings”
