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Pura Besakih

The largest and holiest temple of Balinese Hinduism, about 1,000 m up the southwestern slope of Mount Agung. It is a complex of more than twenty related temples on terraced ridges, led by Pura Penataran Agung with its stairways, split gateways and many-tiered meru towers. It has been a state temple since at least the 15th century and holds more than seventy festivals a year.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1444 CE mainstream
  oldest Besakih edict, dated Saka 1366 (a second follows in 1458) source
• 1917 CE mainstream
  great earthquake of January 1917 wrecks much of Pura Penataran Agung source
• 1960 CE mainstream
  Panca Walikrama purification ceremony held at the temple source
• 1963 CE mainstream
  Mount Agung erupts during the Ekadasa Rudra year; lava flows narrowly miss the temples source
• 1979 CE mainstream
  Ekadasa Rudra, the once-a-century purification ceremony, held in full source
• 1995 CE mainstream
  placed on the UNESCO Tentative List (withdrawn in 2015) source

Where

8.3741° S, 115.4522° E

Sources

• https://doi.org/10.25911/5d74e3e113bd1
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Besakih_Temple

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