SAMUAN TIGA TEMPLE
SAMUAN TIGA TEMPLE IS A BEAUTIFUL SACRED TEMPLES OF ANCIENT WARMADEWA DYNASTY, AN EXCEPTIONALLY UNIQUE TEMPLE SITUATED IN THE VILLAGE OF BEDULU GIANYAR
As suggest by its name, Balinese believe that Samuan Tiga Temple is a venue for the great meeting of the gods, deities and saints. The word samuan means meeting and tiga means three, this sacred temple is flanked by a meeting of two rivers - river Pande and river Tegending - on the east side and a reminiscent of an ancient pool on the west side and sacred trees such as banyan, pule and curiga which grow around the temple serve as giant umbrella.
Unlike other Balinese's temples that consist of three courtyards, Samuan Tiga Temple has seven courtyards separated by walls and split gates, connected only by stairs that leading up to the innermost courtyard, the meeting hall of gods, deities and saints. The innermost courtyard of this sacred temple has exceptionally numerous shrines compare to other inner courtyard of Balinese temples.
As a royal temple, Samuan Tiga Temple also has 8 satellite temples that are located around the temple, they are Pura Bukit, Pura Pasar Agung, Pura Melanting, Pura Dalem Puri and Pura Geduh situated on the east, Pura Celanggu situated on the south, Pura Batan Jeruk / Margibuung situated on the west and Pura Santrian situated on the north. Pura Samuan Tiga offers a unique architecture and stunning view but also numerous unique rituals that can be on the temple anniversary.
Among various rituals that are held in the temple courtyard during Samuan Tiga Temple anniversary there are two rituals that are unique and rare, they are siyat sampian, sanghyang jaran. Siat Sampian or war of sampian is one of the oldest Balinese Hindu ritual that held annually only in Samuan Tiga Temple. In this war, dozens of female devotees attack each other using young-coconut leaf arrangements (sampian) in an almost unconscious state of mind.
After them, the same sampian war is also performed by no less than three hundred of the male devotees. Sanghyang Jaran is a kind of trance dance in which the Pemangku (temple priest) or a group of chosen men becomes himself the Sanghyang, possessed by ancestral deity, a Gandarwa (celestial soldier) on horseback. The dance is performed in the inner courtyard of Samuan Tiga Temple.
The entranced dancer take on the movement of a horse leap into the coals, prancing on top of them, picking up the hot pieces and bathing themselves in fire. Samuan Tiga Temple, an exceptionally unique temple situated in the village of Bedulu, 25 km from Denpasar, 5 km from Ubud, and only 400 m from Elephant Cave (Goa Gajah) sanctuary.
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