Padmasana (shrine)

[1] A Padmasana shrine is usually located in the Utama Mandala, the holiest of holies of a Balinese temple compound, and is usually the focal point of worship in sembahyang rituals.

[2] A Padmasana is first described in the lontar scripture Dwijendra Tattwa, written by Dang Hyang Nirartha, the last major reformer of the Shiva-Buddha religion [clarification needed], who arrived in Bali from Java after the fall of the Majapahit empire.

[2] Dang Hyang Nirartha established and introduced the padmasana structure as a shrine to worship the supreme God (Parama Shiva) in Bali in the 16th century.

It is believed that Bedawang Nala is the symbol of magma in the bowels of the earth, while Anantabhoga symbolises the ground.

[3] The top of a padmasana structure is crowned with an empty throne, often decorated with a gilded image of Acintya or a solar Swastika.