Brahma Vihara Arama 2019
 
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Temple Brahma Vihara Arama, in Buleleng province west of Singaraja, was built in 1970 with local financing by Indonesian locals, with additional aid from Thailand. It is also a monastery for meditation and retreat. It's pretty high up a high foothill to the coastal range, and you get to it after passing through a small village and a stop at Banjar Hot Springs, where you can bathe if you like. Travelfish's page presents the most accurate description of the temple's personality; there are also a few Youtube videos that show (but don't explain) much of the temple complex. For details about the temple, check out this page.
 
 
 
 
This photo shows about half of the extensive compound. That's the Bali Sea in the distance.
 
 
 
 
 
The main entrance to the temple
 
 
 
 
Ade, how do you come up with these great perspectives? (Photo by Ade Alvian.)
 
 
 
 
 
All those identical stupas have earned the temple the sobriquet "little Borobudur." Borobudur, the world's largest Buddhist site, is on Java Island. (Check out my page on Borubudur.)
 
 
 
 
 
Ade's creative perspective. (Photo by Ade Alvian.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bas-reliefs of the Buddha's process towards enlightenment adorn the walls.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(Photo by Ade Alvian.)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Buddha is surrounded by a bas-relief of his birth.
 
 
 
 
 

I'll read that sign to you: "In 1982, His Holiness the Dalai Lama XIV carried out a state visit to Indonesia and made a spiritual trip to Brahmavihara Arama, which was driectly received by His Holiness Bhikku Girirakkhito Mahathera. Upon His Holiness approval and guidance the Dalai Lama above this foundation [of the pagoda to the right?] was built a stupa in which there were sacred objects and personal objects of His Holiness the Dalai Lama XIV, as a memorial and veneration of his Holiness the Dalai Lama XIV spiritual journey in Brahamavihara Arama. This stupa was built by combining Balinese and Tibetan architecture with character of tantrayana as a symbol."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Apsaras descending from the clouds. (Photo by Ade Alvian.)
 
 
 
 
 
Since so many of Ade's photos are on this page, might as well introduce him to you.
 
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