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  • the gods. This theme occurs frequently in Javanese traditions, including the ... The Javanese Hindu-Buddhist tradition also influenced Bali. In Balinese ...
    10 KB (1,598 words) - 15:57, 11 August 2023
  • Wayang is an Indonesian word for theater. Bayang, the Javanese word for shadow or imagination, also connotes "spirit." When the term ...
    19 KB (2,886 words) - 23:20, 3 May 2023
  • once per year, on the second day of the Javanese month of Ruwah (during May ... centuries, which greatly changed Javanese music, was the creation ...
    12 KB (1,955 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023
  • Gajah Mada (died c. 1364) was, according to Javanese old manuscripts, poems and mythology, a famous military leader and prime minister (mahapatih ...
    12 KB (1,777 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
  • The word "gamelan" comes from the Javanese word "gamel ... influence in gamelan music is in the Javanese style of singing. ...
    37 KB (5,930 words) - 04:08, 18 April 2024
  • Java (Indonesian, Javanese, and Sundanese: Jawa also spelled "Djawa") is an island of Indonesia and the site of its capital city, Jakarta ...
    34 KB (5,087 words) - 01:03, 9 February 2023
  • Pajang, and Mataram, various Central Javanese dynasties, the Indonesian ... Kawi language and Nagarakertagama in Old Javanese.A.H. Johns, The Role of ...
    26 KB (3,833 words) - 05:33, 5 November 2022
  • ideas as well as the use of Kawi (an old Javanese language) by the aristocracy. but in 1284, Kertanegara, the East Javanese King, subjugated Bali. After ...
    19 KB (2,723 words) - 05:53, 26 August 2023
  • been called the temple of Lara Jonggrang (Javanese: Slender virgin), after ... (Sewu means "thousands" in Javanese). The Princess became the ...
    15 KB (2,259 words) - 22:14, 30 November 2022
  • (Sanskrit) and it is not the family name: Javanese do not have family names ... pious Muslim but also follows traditional Javanese beliefs and had great faith ...
    23 KB (3,414 words) - 09:38, 10 March 2023
  • *The Javanese are descendants of contract workers from the former ... also practice Islam and Christianity. The Javanese also practice both Islam ...
    30 KB (4,282 words) - 12:07, 17 April 2024
  • popular in the early 1900s). Like many Javanese people, he had just one ... The son of a Javanese school teacher and his Balinese wife from Buleleng ...
    25 KB (3,644 words) - 21:41, 26 February 2023
  • several minor works that described in detail Javanese history and economy. In 1960, he wrote his famous The Religion of Java, and throughout the 1960s ...
    9 KB (1,225 words) - 22:06, 7 January 2024
  • was also built. The peak of Hindu-Javanese civilization was the Majapahit ... Indonesian version of Buddhism in ancient Javanese texts, and the shape of ...
    26 KB (3,688 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
  • 000 people, some of whom were Malay and Javanese traders, as well as Chinese ... A program of transmigration of mainly Javanese people to the outer ...
    21 KB (3,241 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
  • Kreger (2005a) notes that the Javanese specimens are quite controversial. They are not found in well-dated locales, are often found by locals ...
    9 KB (1,362 words) - 01:03, 9 February 2023
  • C.E., represents the only written old Javanese manuscript hinting at the ... area known as Kedu Plain constitutes a Javanese 'sacred' place ...
    30 KB (4,409 words) - 19:44, 20 November 2023
  • bringing along a mixture of dialects of the Javanese and Sundanese languages, as well as their traditional foods and customs. The Betawi (Orang Betawi ...
    29 KB (4,012 words) - 08:43, 18 March 2024
  • island was then subject to conquests from Javanese kingdoms, first Singhasari ... (1965-1998) was viewed as a cover for Javanese chauvinism. Groups began ...
    19 KB (2,798 words) - 07:32, 14 June 2023
  • Waray-Waray, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, Javanese, Sundanese, Madura ... which did not use paper, included Javanese copperplate scrolls. That ...
    38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023

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