A look into Balinese Hinduism: Bali temples are dedicated to local spirits & Hindu deities | WION 

Love from Indonesia 🇮🇩🇮🇩❤️

@@krisskalalo7599 Achintya s other name is Vedas Brahman or Ishwar.

Go to Indonesia leave our country

@@being_rasheed K2E you are an infiltrator go to Paakistaan sooar

@@being_rasheed what nonsense ur talking about?

Well, your name is Wisnu, the preserver lord. That already says a lot.

Yes brother your name says it all.. I'm from India and wish to visit Bali someday.

Do put Ayodha, Kashi Vishwanath, Somnath, Char Dham, actually there are soo many, in your bucket list. I myself wish for the same. Best wishes Sir!

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You are always welcome bro

You should watch old temples of India and nepal too.. They are also well preserved and many are world Heritage.

Because india is invaded by Mughals. They destroyed everything in india. They built their mosque and tomb.

@@tanya3508 but still we have temples and places which were built thousands of years ago.

@@pankajdahiya4748 "sanju love mahi" I saw this written in a 300 year old temple in india

@@novastonegaming so? There are many idiots.

Examples of clean also. Not like in India.

@@agusmedan9617Nice joke. Almost all Indian temples are well maintained.

@@liverbot4854 you can say that. But unfortunately the reality is not.

@@agusmedan9617 The area outside the temple may be dirty but in the actual place of worship it's fine.

@@agusmedan9617 yes not dirty like Java, medan & aceh.

Thank you I wish all religions have same respect for Hindus

Thanks bro🥰🥰

Our ancestors is not hindu but Austronesia, hindu is just foreign religion 😛😄

@@superstone2763 just like Islam is also foreign. If you want to resort to the earliest fact our ancestors is anismistic. Austronesia a language group not a race or religion.

Likewise with your statement that said our ancestors were hindus, hinduism is a religion not a race.🤪😛😁 Islam, hindu, budhis, christian is foreign religion in Indonesia.

Correct, the term "Islamic country" is misleading. Hope WION correspondent reads the above comment.

India is a secular country, yet India is called as a hindu country. America is a secular country, yet, America is called as a Christian nation. European nations are secular countries but they are called as Christian countries. No one makes fuss about it.

@@Stardust-xl8nn the difference is in indonesia there are still a lot of radicalist and jihadist allowing such statement just giving them an excuse to proceed their agenda which is againts our constitution and our diversity! Its not about being fuss, it is such a sensitive matters for indonesian. If you are not indonesian or ever lived in indonesia, you don't have any clue why they are protesting the reporter.

@@Stardust-xl8nn NO, Indonesia can not samed with any contry in the globe.. we are not agree if you said that Indonesia same to them..

Indonesia is a example for all other Muslim countries in the world.

Nusantara was in golden era of power and quality while in Hinduism and Buddhism back in very beginning ages, but when islam pirated it up until now, look.. what you have got? Conflicts

@@mrjean9376 these bots are disgusting

@@mrjean9376 still developed than India

​@@johnny-db1tgNot developed than india but definitely the perseverance is unmatchable

​@@mrjean9376can you tolerance?

Bali is clean n beautifull. Much better than that in India, dirty and messy.

@@easy_sleko-sz4bq also Indonesia's capital jakarta is most poluted place in North East Asia...... We live in the same world and we are belongs same human family... We can make our world clean and beautiful one day...

Indian Brahmins couldn’t destory Hindus methods in Bali. It’s still in a pure state without thinking too much of the calculating mind.

@@rjclue2630 wt hell? I am an Ex-muslim. Do you know who Brahmins are? They are the ones who carry knowledge from one generation to another. If you destroy them, you destroy hinduism. There are 16 qualities you need to have to become Bhrahmin. I am sure you're a muslim

@@DM-zb8hw yes 🚩🚩🚩 Om Namah Shivay🧡

@@rjclue2630 😃😃😃😃

@@DM-zb8hw you're just pretending but not and knowledge of native practices before Brahmins was vanished because of them

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That's actually true regarding Rig Vedic deities are dedicated to natural forces

Hinduism 🕉 is reverence of nature and it’s power ❤

Buddhism I think is more appealing and popular to non-Indians though....

@@ArnoldTeras And fyi Buddhism is a branch of sanatan dharm only

Just matter of time. Even Indian Hindu when converted to islam were not radical. Islam tightens the noose slowly and make their followers radical in different forms. Such forces are at work in Indonesia as well

😂😂 bro islam and tolerance are two opposite poles

They are tolerant bcos they follow hindu culture with islam.

@@himdude9637 if you deny that there's no radicals in your own religion or caste then you're an ignorant because every community and society have their own radicals

@@abhaysuryagg then what about Sanatan radicals? If you call them liberals then you're one of the radicals

It unique Javanese-Balinese architecture, no in india, sri lanka, nepal, bangaldesh have like bali, Thailand-Laos-Cambodia and Myammar have own style. southeast asian have 2 kind of style mainland style and maritime style mean indonesia-malaysia-brunei, only Balinese are still pure just like Thailand, Cambodia and Loas in local architecture and culture.

​@@safuwanfauzi5014it's same as indias ancient temples

what you mean same? @@mob5122

People came to Bali for beauty of Nature and Bali culture not for Hindu religion lol 🤣

@@durianberduriOh really? The beauty of nature is the same in all the surrounding islands too. Why nobody visits them or even knows about them?

@@drbipasha what the hell? 🤣 You thought people only come to Indonesia just for Bali? Theres literally tons cool places all over Indonesia.

@tengoro443 yeah and they eat cow meat also

@@durianberduri I have seen those places, but nothing compares with Bali primarily due to the beautiful Hindu sculptures and architecture

It's a shame, most RU-vidrs from India who visit Bali only focus on reviewing hotels. It's very rare for us to find Indian RU-vidrs who review Balinese cultures in more depth

Try south indian tantra... feel thats the most connected with balinese hinduism..

@@deepblue3682 You're not getting it. I lived in an ashram in South India. Nearly all people in South India see Southeast Asia as a Hindu colony; they don't know anything about the richness of the cultures in that region because they can only see through Indian spectacles. You sound no different. Try reading more books and traveling more.

@@brianholihan5497 well am a south indian myself... i dont consider south east asia as a "hindu colony"...its only the island of bali which have some rements of hindusim.. rest all are muslim -buddhist-christian areas... what i said was the cultural infuence came from kalinga and south india..where the royal families were connected even maritial wise between south india and south east asia....and its the tantric idol worshipping phase of hinduism which seems more prevalent in bali ( and south east asia earlier ).. the old script of java is derived from south indian brahmi script... the sinhala script,burmese script, thai script, khemer script and even old philippines script before spaniards came there were all derivents (inspired )from south indian brahmi script... thats doesn't means south east asia is" hindu colony"... if so jew's should consider the whole world except may be india east asia as "jewish colony"... as christianity islam all derived from jewism... !!.. 🤷‍♂️

@@deepblue3682 You are wrong and narrow-minded. THE cultural influence did not come from South India. SOME influence came from South India. Balinese blended it with their already rich culture, which you seem profoundly ignorant of.

Yup Indonesia is a majority muslim country, NOT Islamic country. We have six different religions and hundreds of ethnics here living in harmony.

Love from India , i am an absolute admirer of Indonesia and it's culture and history !

@@siriusrosa9972 yes

no one cares about what u think WION is an INDIAN channel whose majority is HINDU we gave u those and YES INDONESIA is A MUSLIM as well as ISLAMIC COUNTRY deal with that don't LECTURE US with ur BS u think few of us Indian greeted u u can take us for a ride and start with ur NONSENSE don't watch WION if u don't like it no one asked ur opinion we will do what we like WION is not harming anything..so take ur attitude with u and shove it somewhere better...or i can tell u where u can

What does motto mean?

The first Indian king on Indonesia region (Greater Sunda Islands) is Aji Saka in Java island (according to folklore). And there is kingdom in Central Java named Kalingga, they are refugee from India after the war with Muria dynasty (Maurya). This kingdom is predecessor of two great dynasty (Sanjaya and Sailendra or Mataram and Sriwijaya). Btw, the kingdom of Kalingga/Keling in Central Java has strong relationship with Sunda kingdom in West Java (especially with Galuh kingdom). And as we know, Kutai kingdom and Sunda kingdom is one lineage (from Kutai to Tarumanagara to Sunda and Galuh kingdom), from Kudungga to Mulawarman (Kutai) to Purnawarman (Tarumanagara) to Tarusbawa (Sunda) and Wretikandayun (Galuh). From Wretikandayun lineage with Kalingga/Keling kingdom at Central Java we have Sanjaya dynasty and Sailendra dynasty (Mataram and Sriwijaya). Mataram dissolved into Kediri/Panjalu and Janggala at the same time when Sriwijaya attacked by Cholamandala kingdom (the fell of Nalanda and the decline of Buddhism, according to history book in Indonesia). After the invasion of Cholamandala kingdom, we move the center of Buddhism from Nalanda to Borobudur at Central Java and the center of Hinduism from Jambudwipa to Mount Semeru/Mahameru at East Java. After that Majapahit era came (Siwa-Buddha period and we abandoned the caste system). From Majapahit era, we have National Motto printed on National Emblem/Garuda Pancasila. Bhinneka Tunggal Ika/unity in diversity. From Bhinneka Tungga Ika Tan Hana Dharma Mangrwa... At Majapahit era, many of us believe that Siwa and Buddha/Jina is one entity because there is no duality in truth (Tan Hana Dharma Mangrwa).

@@ariapinandita9240 ah Kalingga thatt why we called Indians in Medan as "Keling" right?

@@PissMenn Yups. That's right brother

But what to expect?? The reality is there, all the justice are offered to muslim, much much religion issue happened with non muslim because of muslims, for example, christians want to build their church, it caused soo much cruelty by the muslim against christians, and even many other religions have their own issues with moslmes regarding justice in thia country, like small things you can mention, said it for example much much insulting act comes from moselems to non islam, it's all broken, bali have TO MUCH STRICTLY LIMIT THEIR ISLAND AGAINST THE MUSLIMS!

@@mrjean9376 Garuda Wisnu Kencana was made in Bandung, West Java province ( Tatar Sunda)... As we know, West Java is the province with the largest Muslim population in Indonesia... Many sculptors from Tatar Sunda helped out even though they were Muslim... Not just Bali, they also helped to make many monuments in various regions... Yesus Buntu Burake statue at Toraja (the largest statue of Christ in the world) is one of them... So, all religious communities in Indonesia are represented. Muslims with the Istiqlal mosque, Buddhists with Borobudur, agama Siwa/Shiva with Prambanan, Hindus (especially Vishnu) with Garuda Wisnu Kencana, Christians with a statue of Jesus Buntu Burake in Toraja...

@Tengoro ball As far as I'm aware, aren't eastern Indonesians are mostly christians (either protestant or catholic?)

@Tengoro ball eastern indomesia are mostly christian amd catholic. Islam and hinduism is kinda mixed in banyuwangi. Saying they are forced is very stretched.

@Tengoro ball when Mataram sultanate attacked Banyuwangi u said they forced Banyuwangi people to become muslim, bet u never heard that their fellow Hindus Balinese kingdom attacked & invaded Banyuwangi too several times

In that case india wins, with over 1billion hindus with 3rd largest muslim population and other major religions

@@myhomemykook Thing is, Indonesia's the largest Muslim population on Earth. Like literally the first in the world. Over 210 million muslims (roughly).

Though I am not Balinese..but the last time I visited there... someone told me that bali Hindus led by bali ksatriyas were fearless and fought among the neighbouring muslim kingdoms to protect their dharma..so it's not a miracle...it's only because of your warrior bali ancestors who thought to lay down their life but converting

​​​@@BirenderSinghJalalActually Balinese has a traditional ethics which is comparable to Bushido in Japan. We called it Puputan (fighting until death). So when Balinese warriors begin to lose in the battle, they chose to be killed or suicide than captured by enemies. That's why Bali able to defeat foreign powers who tried to conquer them for centuries, until they fall into Dutch colonization in 1908.

no forced conversion? try to please your hypocritcal, indian mind with it............

This is due to the clarity of the transition from one dynasty to another. From Kutai Martadipura-Kartanagara, Tarumanagara, Sunda, Galuh, Kalingga (refugees from India), Mataram (Kalingga-Galuh), Sriwijaya, Kediri, Janggala, Singasari, Majapahit, Pajajaran (Sunda-Galuh), Pajang, Sumedang, and Mataram Sultanate (the largest Islamic Sultanate in Indonesia). The transition from the Siwa-Buddha kingdom to Islamic sultanate is very clear. We even use the Javanese calendar system/penanggalan Jawa (a hybrid between the Saka calendar and the Hijri calendar) in addition to using the Gregorian calendar. It's very easy to convert from Saka calendar to the Hijri calendar system.

Nusantara was in golden era of power and quality while in Hinduism and Buddhism back in very beginning ages, but when islam pirated it up until now, look.. what you have got? Conflicts

@@mrjean9376 We have never had conflicts with other religions, except for two thing (which was intolerable from ancient times), first the Bhairawa Tantra sect/devotees of Gedeng Permoni/Durga and Buta Kala. Ruler of Setragandamayit/burial ground with the famous pancamakara ritual. In fact, we have a special ceremony called ruwatan to fight them. Namely the puppet show performance ceremony with the Murwakala play. In addition, there are many stories of saints fighting the supernatural powers of the Gedeng Permoni devotees, such as the story of Syekh Subakir, etc. The second was the Cholamandala attack on the Sriwijaya kingdom, causing the change of the center of Mahayana Buddhism from Nalanda to Borobudur in Central Java and the change of the center of the Shiva religion/agama Siwa to Mount Mahameru in East Java.

Do Indonesian mu-slims read/follow Had-iths? If not, it looks like Indonesians follow a whitewashed reli-gion.

@@mlg1279 Of course and we have many Islamic figures/ulama/ustadz, such as An Nawawi Al Bantani (from Banten), he is Imam Masjidil Haram, and many more...

Actually Indonesia is Semi Secular countries.

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It's also the religion...

India Hindu and Bali are different, tirta is the name religion of balinese ITS part of hinduisme.

​@@sontolodon241yes, and balinese hindus are better

@@EmpressGaruda so that meant the US is christian nation just because the very small vocal minority 😆

jay elephant fart.....

Exactly. Only in Indonesia you can find mosques with dharmic names like "Garuda Mosque", "Aditya Jaya Mosque", etc 😅

Slowly but sure now, There are many Indonesian that converted back to Their ancestral religion which is Hinduism.

@@acir7501 There was prophecy by an Indonesian Hindu priest in 16th century that 500 years everything gonna change.

@@patriot4786 But what to expect?? The reality is there, all the justice are offered to muslim, much much religion issue happened with non muslim because of muslims, for example, christians want to build their church, it caused soo much cruelty by the muslim against christians, and even many other religions have their own issues with moslmes regarding justice in thia country, like small things you can mention, said it for example much much insulting act comes from moselems to non islam, it's all broken, bali have TO MUCH STRICTLY LIMIT THEIR ISLAND AGAINST THE MUSLIMS!

@@acir7501 But what to expect?? The reality is there, all the justice are offered to muslim, much much religion issue happened with non muslim because of muslims, for example, christians want to build their church, it caused soo much cruelty by the muslim against christians, and even many other religions have their own issues with moslmes regarding justice in thia country, like small things you can mention, said it for example much much insulting act comes from moselems to non islam, it's all broken, bali have TO MUCH STRICTLY LIMIT THEIR ISLAND AGAINST THE MUSLIMS!

Satu indonesia

His name is also soekarno, from Karna

@@doniwirawan7191 interesting fact

@@surajprakash3181 yes i got alot fun fact about india and bali bro lol

@@surajprakash3181 Su korno means good karno. Also they have pronunciation of names like Bengali Hindus ending names with O sound than Aa sound of North Indian pronunciation.

@@surojeetchatterji9966 Because in ancient time they have very deep cultural relationship with Pala and Anga dynasty (Bengal).

Just matter of time. Even Indian Hindu when converted to islam were not radical. Islam tightens the noose slowly and make their followers radical in different forms. Such forces are at work in Indonesia as well

@@himdude9637 The ratio of radicals in Islam is higher compared to other religions. That's true. Islam is slowly taking over Europe and is now gunning for the Americas. In the next 200 years, Islam will be the most dominant religion in the world.

We just need to stop the spread of radical Wahabism coming from Saudi Arabia.

Funny, considering Indian politicians see Indonesia as a sort of 'second Pakistan'

Its funny since sharia rooted quite tight in indonesian laws but nobody seems complain. And we learn islam not only from traders from arabs, but also scholars from gujarat, india. Persian muslim scholars, and even chinese muslim scholars. I think that is why we learn islam as an inclusive religion and not strictly follow arabic traditions.

It's better to just say Muslim majority country. The term Muslim country or Islamic country can be misleading.

What agenda? Indonesian hindus and muslim live in peace supporting each other, we're not pathetic like your indian-pakistani backward thinking

Ngak usah norak dek, udah banyak yang jelasin

@@kurohiki terimakasih sudah mampir 😂

But what to expect?? Let's face it, The reality is there, all the justice are offered to muslim, much much religion issue happened with non muslim because of muslims, for example, christians want to build their church, it caused soo much cruelty by the muslim against christians, and even many other religions have their own issues with moslmes regarding justice in thia country, like small things you can mention, said it for example much much insulting act comes from moselems to non islam, it's all broken, bali have TO MUCH STRICTLY LIMIT THEIR ISLAND AGAINST THE MUSLIMS!

Hii, In Sanskrit, "Bhinn means Diverse, and Eka mean One/Unit).. Bahasa Indonesia is very much familiar to us Hindi/Sanskrit speakers and learners.

@@mrjean9376 No one cares, you just make things up and corner 1 religion only without seeing bigger scope, the fact you comment on most commentary in this video show how lack luster your knowledge is

Wow great to know that

@@shivanshsingh7593 a lot of our motto / slogan in military, education, organization, etc still hold words in sanskrit. Eventhough we often don't know what they're meaning (word by word) until they translated..

It depends on which part of Indonesia Sumatra and Madura is more radicalized While Java Kalimatan Sulawesi and other islands are less

It depend on what island you ware talking. Bali, few region in Papua and some other island were peacefull and lived in what ever they have. While Java and Sumatra were very chaotic. Most population were in there and Tons of belives and culture were combined into one that resulting into a chaos.

@@noobscoopsies1100 Papua is peacefull? 🤣🤣

@@noobscoopsies1100 sumatra chaotic?😂😂

Lol 😅😅 then why not teach your muslim brothers here in India...who throw rocks on our Hindu processions ..provoke us..insult our deities and when we Hindus come on the streets for a head on fight...they run and start victim card just like any muslim...

It's about choice, any one can make option in their life...do you have choice in your life ?

@@intel_rakyat_bawah i dont think it was choice but coercion of some sort. How can millions have sane thinking to suddenly cpnvert must be evonomic or military subversion.

@@koumei1709 if king convert peoples also.

@ANAL 47 Is not, An*ies will not be President

Because Bali.a Island seperate from the mainland an they deal in tourism . There is plenty of active volcanoes to .an when they errupt u are in trouble because of earthquakes .I had one in 2018 an it threw me out my.bed at 7 30 in the morning when the whole place shook .

Yeah, but keep making distance from arabic Islamic world ..i'm really sad for Iran

@Wabi Sabi exactly...and i hope everyone understand it

Padri War..follow Nabi Asli..Ex Muslim from Indonesia..now Christian..

Bruhh no need to tell the differences..we Hindus are well aware of it...here in India every 200 km...the culture and traditions of Hinduism changes...so obviously we know the Hinduism is different in Bali...there are no commandments in Hinduism unlike in abrahamic religion..it mixes with the local culture and tradition with 3 common core foundation i.e Dharma, karma and moksha!! I bet you Balinese Hindus do believe in these 3 core concepts with their own culture..local deities and their ancestral traditions and no other hindu will have problems with it unlike the abrahamic ones

Bruh don't even talk about cholas in Bali...they will hate you!! Cholas only looted them...for maritime profits!! Back then Indonesia was hindu Buddhists with their local deities way before cholas came...a Balinese historian tolde this