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Tanah Lot Temple Ceremonies |
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 Temple anniversary ceremony at Tanah Lot Temple executed each every six-month precisely on Buda Wage, Wara Langkir, four days after Kuningan Day, which is fall on September 3-6, 2008. All pemedek or prayer have started do pray start in the morning until nighttime and will take place or nyejer during three days. Thousands of Hindu people which do pray to Tanah Lot Temple come from various area in Sub-Province of Tabanan specially and Bali generally. Pujawali at Tanah Lot Temple start at 11 AM until 1 PM led by Mangku Subagia from Beraban village. But all pemedek have started pray at 4 AM local time early morning. Bustle start seen at 10 AM, and the top will happen at 1 PM until nighttime. Amount of pemedek till now have reached 750 people or about reaching the percentage of 50%.  The situation at Tanah Lot Temple usually fulfilled by pemedek so that they must queuing up first into jeroan (=middle place of the tempel) Tanah Lot Temple to do pray. Before pemedek do pray at jeroan Tanah Lot Temple, pemedek usually do pray at Beji Kaler that exist at Tanah Lot Temple. Beji Kaler is source of holy water that usually used if there is ceremony at Tanah Lot Temple. This pray symbol pemedek do pray to required so that their body and their soul sanctified before do pray hereinafter at Tanah Lot Temple. After pemedek do pray at Beji Kaler then pemedek going to jeroan Tanah Lot Temple.
 Every pemedek seen seriously and solemn when ritual ceremony happen. First, they pray with empty hand called "puyung". After that continued with use some flower with red and white color called "muspa", and then use kwangen which consist of some flower with multivarious color, and there is money above the flower called "sesari". Pray with kwangen is part of muspa. The last is pray with empty hand again to say thanks to the God of fluency and amenity which have been given.
 After done then pemedek mepamit (=finish to pray) going to way out there is at south side of Tanah Lot Temple which circle until east side of Tanah Lot Temple. On this way out pemedek must queue up again because form of the way out is doorstep child which not too wide. The doorstep child made from stone which formed of the rock that exist before. But along with time, then the doorstep child have been repaired so that facilitating pemedek if there is ceremony at Tanah Lot Temple. Reach under the temple, pemedek have to wade coast which close with source of holy water to way out of Tanah Lot Temple called jabaan. Under the temple always attached by string for pemedek which its function is to hold through the coast especially when the tide is hight. With the string, hope pemedek will feel more peaceful to defect specially when theh tide is high. Picture Galleries, Here
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