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Pura Penataran Agung Lempuyang is a Balinese Hindu temple or pura on Mount Lempuyang in Karangasem Regency, Bali. It is the first and lowest temple of the complex of temples called Pura Lempuyang. The highest of these temples, Pura Lempuyang Luhur, is one of the Sad Kahyangan Jagad or “six sanctuaries of the world”, six holiest places of worship on Bali, and one of the nine directional temples of Bali.
Location
Pura Penataran Agung is located on the south-west side of Mount Lempuyang, 600 metres (2,000 ft) above sea level, in Abang district, Karangasem Regency. Lempuyang is a Javanese name; the Balinese name is Gamongan.
History
The establishment of places of worship around Mount Lempuyang is believed to predate the majority of Hindu temples on the island of Bali. Two epigraphs, Epigraph Sading C and Epigraph Dewa Purana Bangsul, tell the spiritual history of the temple. According to the first one, en 1072 Caka (balinese lunar calendar; 993–994 in gregorian calendar), Cri Maharaj Jayacakti is told by his father to go to Bali and build a temple on the Lempuyang mountain, for it to be Bali’s salvation and to bring more people to that area. The other epigraph says that Lord Paramecwara sent one of his sons, Cri Gnijayacakti, to Bali to become the saviour of the island. Penataran Agung Temple Lempuyang was restored in 2001.
Lempuyang temples
The Pura Lempuyang complex includes seven temples along the hiking path to the summit of Mount Lempuyang.[4] The seven temples are, from the lowest to the highestː
- Pura Penataran Agung Lempuyang
- Pura Telaga Mas, second temple met from the entrance
- Pura Telaga Sawangan
- Pura Lempuyang Madya
- Pura Puncak Bisbis, fifth temple
- Pura Pasar Agung, sixth temple
- Pura Lempuyang Luhur, seventh temple
