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Held every 210 days (one year in the Balinese calendar), odalan celebrations commemorate the day a temple was founded as well as sanghyang widi wasa (the day of the Gods), when the Gods first blessed a temple with their presence. There are different types of odalan gatherings ranging from the large, four-day odalan madudus agung to the smaller, one...
One of the most regularly observed rituals in the temples in Bali is the Hindu ceremony of Odalan. Generally speaking Odalan is a festival to observe a temple’s anniversary. Most of the people observe Odalan for religious reasons rather than an occasion for merriment. With 4,539 temples around the island, as recorded by the Religious A...
