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Uluwatu Temple Claimed By Dang Hyang Nirartha Priest

September 28th, 2006

Uluwatu Temple, located on the steep drop cliff on the southermost of Bali is a temple with strong relation with the kingdom of Badung. Badung is one of 10 second level administrative government of Bali which capital city was Denpasar before the city become authonomy.

The kingdom of Badung was covering the area of current the municapal city of Denpasar and the Kabupaten Badung area. The palace of Badung Kingdom was located on what we now know as he city square or Alun alun, Bali Museum, and the Pura Jagat Natha. The family of the Badung kingdom now have the places such as Pemecutan, Kesiman, and Meregan. Uluwatu temple until now is under the maintenance of one of the royal family in Meregan or Jero Kuta. According to the chronicle of Dang Hyang Nirartha, a priest said to have come from Java, he was the one who built the temple including many big temples around Bali. It is said also that the priest was passing life in Bali and believed to have been ” moksa” here at Uluwatu temple. The meaning of moksa in the ancient sense is the sublimation of the body, so no one can find the remains of the dead. This sublimation is believed to unit to the origin or the god which is considered as the only source of his existence.

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