Beji Sangsit Temple
Fifteenth-century Hindu temple in pink sandstone, its gateway carved with naga serpents and two mysterious European musicians.
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This guide to Beji Sangsit Temple in northern Bali starts with two European figures, a guitarist and a rebab player, carved into the inner gateway beside a coiled naga serpent, an image nobody has ever fully explained. It traces the temple back to the fifteenth century, when Majapahit priests and craftsmen crossed from Java to Bali carrying their traditions with them. Along the way it follows the water, from the sacred spring the temple takes its name from to the rice terraces beyond its walls, and the farmers who still depend on it.
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