Bingin

Bingin lies beside the Musi River in southern Sumatra, near rapids that once made this stretch a stopping point for river traffic. The site of Bingin Jungut preserves the remains of brick temples and Buddhist images, including a four-armed Avalokiteshvara. A settlement stood on a hill protected by an earthen bank and ditch. Pottery, beads and traces of ironworking show that the riverbank was a place of both religious life and exchange in the early centuries of the second millennium.