Cockfight
Cockfight or as Balinese would call it Tajen is a word for cock fighting gambling, yet in the sense of true gambling of Bali Tajen has developed from a small number of men…
Foreign Students Studied Balinese Culture
Lately the Indonesian Departement Of Foreign Affairs have program of introducing the Indonesian culture as whole to other countries. To put that program in motion, the Department invite students from other countries in…
ODALAN
Bali are known as The Island of gods, almost everything here in this island are connected or based on Hindu believes and their gods. To prove this is easy, just look at the amount of Temples or…
Balinese Child Ritual Cycle
We all probably know that Balinese has lots of ritual and ceremony according to their Hindu believes. Ritual for temples, houses, even the things they use daily such as cars or motor cycle….
Bali’s Melaspas Ceremony
As we all know there are so many kind of traditional ceremonial in Bali which each of the village has their own way to implement the traditional ceremonial. The philosophies which contained in…
Balinese Pandan War
Balinese Pandan War or as local would call it Mekare-kare in a village named Tenganan-Bali is one of the main rituals, it is a warrior dance involving two young men who are completed respectively…
Banyupinaruh
A day when thousand of Hindus gather by the beach or Temples with holy water, they call the day Banyu Pinaruh. Etymologically, the phrase Banyu Pinaruh consists of two words – banyu and…
Cut teeth Ceremony
Literary sources of the tooth filing ceremony is lontar Kala Pati, Kala tattwa, Semaradhana, and the Hyang Yama. Lontar Kala Pati mentioned that cutting teeth as a sign of changing one’s status to be…
Ogoh ogoh 2012
Part of the Nyepi 2012 celebration Nyepi Day is a celebration of the Hindu people worldwide, as well as in Bali. One of the most awaited celebration of Nyepi in Bali is Ogoh-ogoh….
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