This article discusses the theme of the “demonic numinous” and its association with horror, transgression, and power in the Tantra-influenced literatures and visual arts of Java and Bali from the premodern to the modern period. Emphasizing continuities, it surveys the instantiations of those motifs in artistic and textual vestiges from Central Java (ca. 8th–10th century CE), East Java (ca. 11th–15th century CE, with an aperçu on 1960s’ New Order Indonesia), and premodern and contemporary Bali. The material presented in the article is discussed and contextualized in the light of a comparative analysis of analogous motifs attested in the literatures and arts of the Indian subcontinent and Tibet. Arguing that literary and artistic religio-cult...
Playwrights, practitioners, and art historians have been shocked and inspired by Balinese theatre ti...
This article is to figure out how Javanese power succession has archetypal structures and relational...
This thesis examines specific works from a range of styles, and contrasts the images to understand d...
In this article we argue, contrarily to the dominant scholarly opinion, that Balinese ritual practic...
By their local genius, the local religion, the Balinese were able to localize the teaching of Tantri...
The article deals with the idea of rediscovering three basic images of Indonesian culture: the sea, ...
NSC Working Paper No. 26International audienceAs in other parts of Asia, the figure of Bhīma was mad...
ABSTRACT. Indian Pancatantra is the archetype of Old Javanese Tantri Kamandaka, Laos Tantrai and S...
Vanishing Balinese embroideries provide local people with a direct means of honoring their gods and ...
Konsep The Tantri stories are ancient animal tales known for centuries throughout Asia (as the p...
This thesis seeks to develops a close examination of the belief in witchcraft and sorcery (léyak) in...
© 1978 Roma M. G. Sisley O'NeillThis thesis was completed in the Department of Indian Studies and th...
Temple (Pura and Candi) reliefs in Bali usually depicts stories of gods or mortal life that are sour...
This study explores the Balinese verbal art of the shadow theater against a background of cultural b...
Candi Loro Jonggrang, the largest Hindu complex of insular Southeast Asia (240 structures), was cons...
Playwrights, practitioners, and art historians have been shocked and inspired by Balinese theatre ti...
This article is to figure out how Javanese power succession has archetypal structures and relational...
This thesis examines specific works from a range of styles, and contrasts the images to understand d...
In this article we argue, contrarily to the dominant scholarly opinion, that Balinese ritual practic...
By their local genius, the local religion, the Balinese were able to localize the teaching of Tantri...
The article deals with the idea of rediscovering three basic images of Indonesian culture: the sea, ...
NSC Working Paper No. 26International audienceAs in other parts of Asia, the figure of Bhīma was mad...
ABSTRACT. Indian Pancatantra is the archetype of Old Javanese Tantri Kamandaka, Laos Tantrai and S...
Vanishing Balinese embroideries provide local people with a direct means of honoring their gods and ...
Konsep The Tantri stories are ancient animal tales known for centuries throughout Asia (as the p...
This thesis seeks to develops a close examination of the belief in witchcraft and sorcery (léyak) in...
© 1978 Roma M. G. Sisley O'NeillThis thesis was completed in the Department of Indian Studies and th...
Temple (Pura and Candi) reliefs in Bali usually depicts stories of gods or mortal life that are sour...
This study explores the Balinese verbal art of the shadow theater against a background of cultural b...
Candi Loro Jonggrang, the largest Hindu complex of insular Southeast Asia (240 structures), was cons...
Playwrights, practitioners, and art historians have been shocked and inspired by Balinese theatre ti...
This article is to figure out how Javanese power succession has archetypal structures and relational...
This thesis examines specific works from a range of styles, and contrasts the images to understand d...