Pemujaan Siva-Buddha Dalam Masyarakat Hindu Di Bali

Abstract

The phenomenon of Siva-Buddha cult in Bali is more pronounced than in other places such as in East Java, South East Asian, or even in India itself, where Siva-Buddha took place as a major religious life of the masses. We found in Bali that the Sanghyang Siva-Buddha has been worshipped as Sanghyang Tunggal, i.e. One God. As it is well know that the main problem of the syncretism of SivaBuddha Cult in the course of Indonsian‟s history is how to determine the proper meaning of syncretism, wether it is did happen on the level of philosophy, theology, or on the ground of social activities. In this regard, Bali has been provided rich sources to overcome of these difficulties. Many traditional‟s literature of Bali called lontar contains either similarities or deep ties of the two religious lifes. Moreover, it is mingled with various aspects of Balinese arts, traditions, cultures and local worship. As the result that syncretism of Siva-Buddha Cult in Bali is considered very unique in sense that the fact that the Siva-Buddha Cult is the existing religious life till mowadays. Balinese scholar, particularly the Hindu‟s priests has been maintain the problem through the ages, so that, literatures has been wrote and publish in accordance to the SivaBuddha Cult. But, unfortunately, as it is mainly pre-seved in the royal pamily, the masses of Bali did not aware about what does they had practiced in daily live. Actually, they had prac-tices the cult of Siva-Buddha , but they do not aware about it. Siva-Buddha Cult in Balinese traditional in regard to it main problem of syncretism on the bases of Tntrayana‟s teaching and their approach to the historical background.