{"id":14029,"date":"2015-02-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/02\/07\/welcoming-guests-tengger-style\/"},"modified":"2015-02-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T12:00:00","slug":"welcoming-guests-tengger-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/02\/07\/welcoming-guests-tengger-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming Guests, Tengger Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2015\/02\/04\/welcoming-guests-tengger-style.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>EAST JAVA, INDONESIA, February 4, 2015 (Jakarta Post): Mount Bromo in East Java is inseparable from the Tengger people who live in Malang, Pasuruan, Probolinggo and Lumajang &#8212; and in over a dozen villages in the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park. The Tengger, who have lived in the area for centuries, are descended from Majapahit royalty. Many adhere to a distinct form of Hinduism, although there are also Muslim and Christians.<\/p>\n<p>Most make their living as farmers. Unsurprisingly, their rituals are focused on nature. The Tengger lead modest lives, receiving outsiders warmly while preserving their group&#8217;s identity. This was evident when some Tengger recently welcomed members of the Blazer Indonesia Club automotive community to the vast sand plain around Mount Bromo. <\/p>\n<p>The Tengger are happy to welcome guests formally, provided their intentions are good and that they agree to adhere to local customs. &#8220;They can [be welcomed] in a village or even in the sand, like now,&#8221; Karyadi said. Karyadi said the welcome ritual was meant to beseech the consent of the Supreme Power of the universe to the attainment of the visitors&#8217; goals.<\/p>\n<p>More of this interesting history at source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source EAST JAVA, INDONESIA, February 4, 2015 (Jakarta Post): Mount Bromo in East Java is inseparable from the Tengger people,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}