Story of Bali, Indonesia

In other words on the basis of a certain affinity of architectural style it was assumed that the building full field the same function, overlooking the fact that in every religion the appeal to the emotions id greatly influence by the national characteristics of the population adhering to it. And the 'motivation' of these monuments it closely connected with religious experience.

An additional factor is that Hindu and Buddhist dogma was not interpreted in a particularly strict fashion in Java. In their religious experience the people there found mystical meditation more to their liking, and more convenient, than adherence to dogmatic principles. For this reason there occurred in Java within a short space of time an unmistakable fusion, a syncretism, of systems. It was inevitable that in digamous religious conceptions and memories which had temporally faded when confronted by the splendor of the impressive new system of doctrine should come back into their own snd merge with Hinduism and Buddhism.

As a result of its extremely favourable location, and the swift collapse of the Javanese kingdom of Madjapahit in the l5th century, Malacca now became the most important commercial state in Indonesia.

But already at the beginning of the 16th century the power of this kingdom was checked, and a new era in the history of Indonesia began: its fate was now no longer determined by internal struggles for supremacy, but by Europe, With its superior might and influence. In 108 the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to India, and already by 1509 the Portuguese had appeared on the Malayan peninsula.

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