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	Balinese Religion and Culture
		Balinese Hindus believe in incarnation: when a person dies, the soul passes into another body, where it is in torment because of evil deeds accumulated in its present and past lives.
		Balinese believe that the mountains are the home of the gods, deified ancestors and souls which did not attain moksa.
		The religious rites of the Balinese consist of the human rites (manusa yadnya), the rites of the dead (pitra yadnya), rites of the gods or temple rites (dewa yadnya), rites of demonic forces (butha yadnya) and ordainment rites (rsi yadnya).
	www.bookbali.com /about/culture.htm (5040 words)

	Bali
		In the south the land descends to form an alluvial plain, watered by shallow rivers, dry in the dry season and overflowing whenever there are periods of heavy rains.
		The Balinese people are descendants of a prehistoric race who migrated through mainland Asia to the Indonesian archipelago[?], presumably first settling around 2500 BC.
		The end of prehistoric period in Indonesia was marked by the arrival of the Hindu people arriving from India around 400 AD.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ba/Balinese.html (431 words)

	AN INTRODUCTION TO BALINESE MUSIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Balinese choreography, in its purest interpretation, is a detailed and subtle, physical embodiment of the music that accompanies it.
		For the Balinese people these two arts are an inexorable combination, and to participate in the performance of either is a coveted privilege.
		At the center of Balinese musical culture are the deep and penetrating reverberations of the bronze gongs.
	www.balivision.com /Article_Resources/Introductionbalinesemusic.asp (2828 words)

	Balinese alphabet, language and pronunciation
		The oldest known inscriptions in the Balinese alphabet date from the 11th century AD, but they are thought to be reproductions of texts originally written on palm leaves at an earlier date.
		The Balinese alphabet is still used to this day, although very few people are familiar with it and it is mainly used for religious works.
		Balinese (Basa Bali), an Austronesian language spoken by about 3 million people mainly on the Indonesian island of Bali and in western part of the neighbouring island of Lombok.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/balinese.htm (421 words)

	Balinese people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Balinese culture is perhaps most known for dance and drama.
		The vast majority of the Balinese follow one religion - A Shivaite sect of Hinduism that is mixed with pre-Hindu mythologies and Animism, and Buddhism.
		The Balinese from before the third wave of immigration, known as the Bali Aga, are mostly not followers of the Balinese Shivaite Hinduism, but their own animist traditions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balinese_people (270 words)

	Backpacking Dance, Bali Indonesia Backpackers Dances
		The typical posture of Balinese dance has the legs half-bent, the torso shifted to one side with the elbow raised and lowered in a gesture that displays suppleness of the hands and fingers.
		It is told that Rama, as the first son in a family, was the heir to the Ayodya kingdom but the king's second wife, through her treachery forced the king to crown her own son as the King of Ayodya and asked him to send Rama and his wife into exile.
		The symbol of manhood which fooled people she met on the road, was the use of the Balinese male headgear called the Destar.
	www.budgetbali.com /culture_balinese_dances.php (2267 words)

	Ritual, politics and tourism - Inside Indonesia
		Most Balinese of my acquaintance, a few urban intellectuals aside, have until recently believed deeply in a view of their island as a haven of unique peace and tranquility in a world apparently racked by disorder, conflict and violence.
		Their own (and by implication 'Balinese') priorities by contrast, were on two things only: their livelihoods, which were dependent to varying degrees on tourism, and their religious practice, on which both tourism and their livelihoods ultimately depended anyway.
		People also insisted that the bombing must have been motivated by jealousy and a desire to damage the reputation and economy of Bali, and that it was the result of political machinations of non-Balinese origin.
	www.insideindonesia.org /edit74/macrea.html (735 words)

	Balinese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Balinese is the local language of the Indonesian island of Bali and the mother tongue of the Balinese people.
		It is spoken in Bali, in Lombok and in Java mostly by the Balinese people.
		Balinese is part of the Austronesian language family, and is closely related to the Sasak language and languages of western Sumbawa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balinese_language (171 words)

	Shop Bali, History of Balinese people (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The end of prehistoric period in Indonesia was marked by the arrival of the Hindu people arriving from India around 100 BC as determined by Brahmi inscriptions on potsherds.
		Balinese is the language spoken by people in the island of Bali, Indonesia.
		Balinese is part of the Austronesian language family, and is closely related to Sasak and Sumbawa.
	www.shopbali.com /ShopBaliHistory.html (529 words)

	Bali People Information - Batukaru.info
		Moreover, unlike the natives of the South Seas and similar races under white domination, the Balinese are not a dying people; far from that, in the last ten years a constant increase in the birth rate has been recorded.
		The 1930 census gave the population of Bali as 1,148,000 people, or about 500 to the square mile, an enormous figure when compared with the 41 per square mile of the United States.
		Thus the Balinese of today are the same people as the Hindu-Javanese of pre-Mohammedan Java, in the sense that they both underwent the same racial and Cultural influences.
	www.batukaru.info /people/people_peo3.php (412 words)

	Authentic Balinese Cuisine: From Ceremonial Food to Daily Consumption - 99Bali Update
		Recently, there is also several Balinese cuisine cooking schools offered to visitors of the island, as have Balinese desserts that have been introduced as dishes in hotels, restaurants and cafés.
		The popularity of authentic Balinese cuisine both in the tourism sector as well as amongst the Balinese community is certainly a good thing in one way, but perhaps not in another.
		While this effort is certainly important for the younger generation to know how to make authentic Balinese food that has become part of their daily consumption, it is also inseparable from the attempt at the solidarity of their cultural identity.
	www.99bali.com /update/balinesecuisine.cfm (1185 words)

	Information about modern bali and bali future
		Chaplin may be a favourite of even the Eskimos but to the Balinese who saw him in the flesh be was simply the funny man who came to Bali with his brother and who, after watching a Balinese play, took the stage and performed for them a hilarious parody of their dances.
		Religion is to the Balinese more than spectacular ceremonies with music, dancing, and a touch of drama f or virility; it is their law, the force that holds the community together.
		The primitive Balinese socialism flourished parallel to mediaeval feudalism despite five centuries of domination by an aristocracy that with all its ruthlessness could not break down the inherent unity and co-operativism of the Balinese communities.
	members.tripod.com /bali_information/bali_modern.htm (3715 words)

	The Bali Story and Information the balinese people
		There is a similar correlation of the elegant and decorative people with the clear-cut, extravagant vegetation; of their simple and sensitive temperament with the fertile land.
		The Balinese belong in their environment in the same way that a bumming-bird or an orchid belongs in a Central American jungle, or a steel-worker belongs in the grime of Pittsburgh.
		Since the world of a Balinese is his community, be is anxious to prove his worth, for his own welfare is in direct relation to his social behaviors and his communal standing.
	bali_information.tripod.com /people.htm (1767 words)

	Babad Bali - Use of Balinese Script
		The Balinese language ("Basa Bali") is the native language of nearly 3 million people in Bali and the western part of the neighboring island Lombok.
		Sekar Rare is the Balinese lullaby, sung frequently by a (grand) mother to her (grand) baby, or by and among the playing children.
		Since the introduction of Bahasa Indonesia to the Balinese people, it becomes the official language in Bali also, used commonly in schools and offices, although people still are using the native Balinese language in daily life.
	www.babadbali.com /aksarabali/art2-c.htm (2302 words)

	About Bali Indonesia Travel \| Balli Island \| Bali Information \| Balinese People - Balistarisland.com
		The Balinese people are proud of having preserved their unique Hindu culture against the advance of Islam, the dominant religion throughout Indonesia.
		Balinese people have been well known as the agrarian and friendly people.
		Balinese Hindu has a strong concept in their life that is based on the balance of nature life.
	www.balistarisland.com /Bali-Information/About-Bali.htm (611 words)

	Bali’s Shameful Secret — The “art” of hidden crimes.
		People may legitimately ask why, if Bali and Indonesia are so corrupt and have so much crime, why do they never seem to hear that much about it.
		You get a very clear picture that the people in jail are the ones who can not afford bribes, who have made enemies of the authorities or are unfortunately too high profile in the media to be able to pay their way completely out of trouble.
		If you go to Bali, the chances are you will greatly support more the people that you never see and never want to meet then you do the charming smiling Balinese people who draw you to their island in the first place.
	www.balibs.org /news-update/balinese-crimes.shtml (1401 words)

	Bali Travel Guide \| Balinese People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Each stage of Balinese life is marked by a series of ceremonies and rituals known as Manusa Yadnya.
		Of course, the Balinese are also a practical people so nobody is too surprised when the young man spirits away his bride-to-be, even if she loudly protests about being kidnapped.
		At the cremation ground the body is transferred to a funeral sarcophagus-this should be in the shape of a bull for a Brahmana, a winged lion for a Satria and a sort of elephant-fish for a Sudra.
	www.balidwipa.com /bali/culture.shtml (1006 words)

	Bali people \| bali culture and religion - artinicottage.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The population of Bali is estimated 3,500,000 people who live mostly at southern part of the island.
		As well and more importantly the Subak ensures that all farmers receive their fair share of irrigation water since traditionally the head the Subak was the farmer whose field was at the bottom of the hill and water first had to pass through everybody else's field before it was allowed to irrigate his own.
		Balinese are always pious and they constantly remember where they come from.
	www.artinicottage.com /aboutbali/people.htm (395 words)

	The Balinese People - what they endure
		Balinese Hindu religious holidays unlawfully ruined by an increasingly hostile Javanese Muslim community whose mosques often break the island's silence laws.
		If that was not bad enough, the Balinese have to contend with spiraling fuel and living costs knowing corruption by government ministers and officers is to blame.
		The Balinese are people like everyone else, they want to be better people and have a better life for themselves and their children.
	www.travelforum.org /bali/balinese.html (985 words)

	Inside Indonesia - Sustainable recovery
		Many people, whether members of the multi-ethnic and multinational community living on Bali, officials and businessmen from Jakarta, or groups and aid agencies from abroad, are committed to helping Bali recover from the recent tragedy.
		Her definition of security includes access to healthcare and education for the Balinese as well as the health of the environment in which they live, especially those in rural areas far from the tourist centers of Bali.
		These homegrown development initiatives reveal that the Balinese are acutely aware of the negative impacts tourism development has had on their island, and are taking steps to repair the mistakes of the past.
	www.serve.com /inside/edit74/foster.html (1209 words)

	Religion in Bali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Other Balinese hold that Shiva is the highest gods and ignore Brahma; still others that Vishnu alone is worthy of respect.
		For all that, the truth may be that the liveliest part of the Balinese people's religion is their animistic sense of being surrounded by the immediate spirits of everyday life.
		The truth ma also be that the fear, wonder, and thankfulness engendered by this animism finds a ready means of personal and artistic expression in the forms and rituals of Brahmanistic observance, of which the priests alone know the official significance.
	www.wellofstars.com /DCS/Balinese_religion.htm (292 words)

	People of Bali
		The Balinese, anthropologists suggest, are an amalgamation of a number of people.
		There are pockets of villages in which fraternization with outsiders is completely restricted, resulting in a people and a culture that the Balinese called Bali Aga (Old Bali), which may curiously be the tunnel that allows us to periscope into the culture of Bali in the past centuries.
		In fact, one can say every little action of a Balinese has some religious connotation; stone and wood carvings, cremation ceremony, trance dances, vibrant music - all are intended to please the gods and the goddesses.
	www.indo.com /culture/people.html (687 words)

	Balinese Food in Bali - Bali Directory - Information about resources in Bali - Designed and Managed by bali3000
		Jajan Abug is a Balinese traditional snack made of sticky rice with various shapes: cube, triangle, round, etc. It has many layers in red and white colors.
		Balinese people prefer to cook local chicken because it tastes better and is less fat than broiler chicken.
		It is usually served in Balinese ritual ceremonies, dished up for family and people who assisted in arranging the ceremonies.
	www.bali-directory.com /all-about-bali/BalineseFood.asp (1068 words)

	Bali Indonesia info - Highway Bali company - Ubud Bali Indonesia business support
		Balinese life centres upon religion, which is Hindu Saivism (Shaivism) fused with Buddhism, ancestor cults, and belief in spirits and magic.
		Ubud is in the foothills north of Denpasar and is the heartland of Balinese culture and religion.
		The Dutch annexed the northern Balinese states of Buleleng and Jembrana in 1882, and, in the 1894 Dutch invasion of nearby Lombok Island, the Balinese prince, Anak Agung Ktut, was killed.
	www.highwaybali.com /info/bali_info.html (1219 words)

	Character of Balinese People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Balinese characteristic concepts are: The truth-faith, hard-creative, arranging in stages oriented, Cooperation loyalty, adaptation, need a son, and has ability of being hypnotized.
		The four emotional aspects are also identified to be the characteristic of the Balinese people: the non-verbal act of emotional expression, restrained emotion, and the passive receipt.
		The weel feelings that are had to the Balinese people is strengthened by the closed heeling to their ancestor, community, and best strongness in their soul (for instance,'blood-relative strongness'), even the other things.
	www.balivision.com /Article_Resources/CharacterOfBalinesePeople.asp (705 words)

	About Bali & Indonesia Travel \| Bali Family - Baliforyou.com
		There are endless tales like these relating the origin of the Balinese to magic or ordinary unions of the eternal male and female principles, elements of great importance in the religion around which their life revolves.
		Family ties are consequently the most important factor in Balinese life; a continuous sequence that relates the individual to his family, to his community, and to the total of the Balinese people in a relationship that represents race and nationality to them.
		A Balinese feels that his most important duty is to marry as soon as he comes of age and to raise a family to perpetuate his line.
	www.baliforyou.com /bali/balinese_family.htm (767 words)

	Spirit Journeys - Detailed Itinerary Balinese Sojourn
		The Balinese call a shrine "palinggih", which simply means "place" or "seat" and refers to any sort of temporary or permanent place toward which devotions and offerings are made.
		Balinese temples are not closed buildings, but rectangular courtyards open to the sky, with rows of shrines and altars dedicated to various gods and deities.
		Many Balinese love to sit on the beach overlooking the temple in the late afternoon, watching the tides change and enjoying the silhouettes of the temple reflecting against the brilliant setting sun.
	www.spiritjourneys.com /glb/calendar/balidtl.html (3651 words)

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