Bali Trip Service » Balinese Culture https://www.balitripservices.com Bali Trip Service - Bali Tour - Bali Trips and Travel Guide Mon, 24 Nov 2025 06:07:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Balinese Cultures https://www.balitripservices.com/bali-information/balinese-cultures/ https://www.balitripservices.com/bali-information/balinese-cultures/#comments Sat, 17 Dec 2011 08:06:41 +0000 Made Sutrayasa http://www.balitripservices.com/?p=5407
The culture of Bali is unique. People say that they  have reached self-content. It is not an exaggeration that when a Balinese is asked what heaven is like, he would say, just like Bali, without the worries of mundane life. They want to live in Bali, to be cremated in Bali when they die, and to reincarnate in Bali.
It does not mean that the Balinese resist changes. Instead, they adapt them to their own system. This goes back far in history. Prior to the arrival of Hinduism in Bali and in other parts of Indonesia, people practiced animism. When Hinduism arrives, the practice of Hinduism is adapted to local practices. The brand of Hinduism practiced in Bali is much different from that in India. Other aspects of life flow this way.

Faithfully depicting religious and mythological symbolism, met with Western and modern paintings, giving birth to contemporary paintings, free in its creative topics yet strongly and distinctively Balinese. Its dance, its music, and its wayang theaters , while have been continually enriched by contemporary and external artistry, are still laden with religious connotations, performed mostly to appease and to please the gods and the goddesses. Wood and stone carvings, gold and silver crafts parallel the development of paintings, gracefully evolving with external forces to enhance their characters.

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