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The idea of balance is central to Balinese philosophy and way of life. Nature and Man meet and complement each other orderly in a hymn of beauty addressed to Sang Hyang Widhi or God the Supreme. This is the best visible in human landscapes.
The Balinese desa (village) is typically host to a set of three village temples, the kahyangan tiga, each related to a focal aspect of the village's symbolic life: the origin with pura puseh (navel temple) located mountain ward, where the tutelary gods of the village and its founders are worshipped; the territory itself with the pura desa, located in the center of the village, where meetings of the village assembly and the rituals of fertility are held; the temple of the dead (pura dalem), located downward, where the forces of death and the netherworld are worshipped, and near which burials take place. Besides these territorial temples, there is also a temple for each banjar (bedogol or pura banjar), a temple for each subak, and the various temples of the local sub-clans (pura dadia or pura panti), each of which with its own calendar of festivals.

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