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Benzaiten (shinjitai: 弁才天 or 弁財天; kyūjitai: 辯才天, 辨才天, or 辨財天, lit. "goddess of eloquence", Benten, Chinese: 辯才天, Biancaitian) is an East Asian Buddhist goddess (technically a Dharmapala, "Dharma protector") who originated from the Hindu deity Saraswati; goddess of speech, the arts, and learning.
Garuda Wisnu Kencana statue (also known as GWK statue) is a 121-meter-tall statue located in Garuda Wisnu Kencana Cultural Park, Bali, Indonesia. It was designed by Nyoman Nuarta and inaugurated in September 2018. The total height of the monument, including the 46-meter base pedestal is 121 m (397 ft).
His "most ambitious and notable" work was the Garuda Wisnu Kencana Statue in Bali's GWK Park, completed in 2018. [1] Officiated by president Joko Widodo , the statue stands 121 meters tall and weighs over 4,000 tonnes; [ 2 ] at the time of its creation, it was the tallest statue of a Hindu deity and it is currently the tallest statue in Indonesia .
It is quite difficult to define Indonesian art, since the country is immensely diverse.The sprawling archipelago nation consists of 17,000 islands. [1] Around 922 of those permanently inhabited, [2] by over 600 ethnic groups, [3] [4] which speak more than 700 living languages.
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The concept of eloquence could date back to the rhetoric of the ancient Greeks, Calliope (one of the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne) being the Muse of epic poetry and eloquence. Hermes, the Greek God, was a patron of eloquence. Cicero, a rhetorician and prolific author, was well-regarded in Ancient Rome as an orator of excellent eloquence.
The national emblem of Indonesia is called Garuda Pancasila in Indonesian. [2] The main part is the Garuda with a heraldic shield on its chest and a scroll gripped by its legs. The shield's five emblems represent Pancasila , the five principles of Indonesia's national ideology .
The statue is full covered with 22 karat kampoh ("gold paper") imported from Thailand amounting to 1.5 billion rupiahs. Although this monument is the biggest in Indonesia, Four-Faced Buddha statue in Thailand is still the biggest in the world. [4] Totally, the height of this Maha Brahma statue, from the throne to the roof, is 36 meters.