Evidence that arkeologis found in the area of Sumbawa, in the form of sarcophagus, nakara, menhir and indicates that I have Samawa ancient beliefs and forms of ritual worship to the spirit ancestor they are. The concepts of cosmology and the need to maintain a balance between himself makrokosmos continue with inherited across generations entrance to Hindu-Buddhist culture, even in the Islamic paradaban now Sumbawa .
Estimated Hindu-Buddhist religion has been growing rapidly in the small kingdoms Sumbawa about two hundred years before the invasion the kingdom of Majapahit to this region of Sumbawa. Some of the kingdom, among others: the kingdom of god in the Yellow Selesek Mas (Ropang), Kingdom of Airenung (Moyo Hulu), the Kingdom of Clouds in the Yellow pestilence Semulan (Moyo Hulu), the Kingdom of Mount Setia (Sumbawa), the kingdom of god Paruwa Maja (Utan), Kingdom of Seran (Seteluk), Taliwang Kingdom, and the Kingdom of Jereweh. According Zolinger, Islam into the first island of Sumbawa island of Lombok in the years between 1450-1540 brought by traders from Islamic and Malay, especially Palembang. Kingdom of Majapahit next fall has caused a small kingdoms in the area of Sumbawa become the kingdoms free. This would ease conditions for the introduction of the teachings of Islam by the mubaligh, and in the early years of the century to the early-16 Sunan Prapen which is a descendant of Sunan Giri came from Java to Sumbawa u SAW.