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GENERAL
INFORMATION
Tabanan's territory covers the hill and Lake Area of Bedugul
and the southern slopes of Mount Batukaru, Bali's second highest
mountain, and western Bali's axis mundi, defining the mountain-sea
(kaja-kelod) orientation of the architecture and rites. Open
to cultivation relatively late, in the 18th Century, Tabanan
is Bali's most famous site, the Tanah Lot Temple. It consists
of a couple of shrines built on an outcropping of rocks just
offshore the coast, thus becomes an islet at high tide. "Tanah"
means earth, and "Lot" means sea.
The temple symbolizes the point of encounter between natural
and cosmic elements: male female, inner world, outer world.
One of Bali's cosmic temples-Sad Kahyangan-it was built by the
wandering saint of Bali, Dang Hyang Nirartha, in the 16th Century. |
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