Part 2: The Temple (Karya Agung) - View: Video Storyboard - Video Clip
Approx. running time - 45:21
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The second featurette not only highlights Dewi as a modern accomplished performing artist, it also focuses on her religious Hindu heritage.
The story examplifies a specific important religious festival, which occurs every fifty years, to explain the traditional values and boundaries in Balinese culture - and also offers a special narrative block about the history of Balinese Hinduism.
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Agama Tirtha (the religion of the Holy Water) is a unique fusion of the archaic Malayo-Indonesian beliefs and rituals, and a multitude of Hindu and Buddhist influences, and was introduced to the island between the 8th and the 16th centuries by numerous spiritual leaders and invading forces.
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Modern Balinese Hinduism now encompasses a vast range of practices and doctrines of both Hinduism and Buddhism, carefully grafted into the base of the ancient religious backbone of animistic ancestral worship, and the belief in the nature spirits of fire, water, earth, sun, mountains, and the sea.
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Scenes: Interviews inside ancient Besakih temple complex, religious preparations, festival scenes and processions during the Karya Agung festivities.
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Click below for more information about each episode:
THE DRAGONFLY | THE TEMPLE | THE VILLAGE | THE FAMILY | TALK ABOUT
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