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Buddhist Mount Wutai listed World Heritage
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-06-26 22:36 China's sacred Buddhist Mount Wutai joins World Heritage List SEVILLE, Spain: China's Mount Wutai on Friday became China's 38th site to join UNESCO's World Heritage List as a cultural landscape. "We've been through a rough path, full of suspense," Tong Mingkang, deputy chief of China's State Administration of Cultural Heritage, said after the announcement.
Mount Wutai, literally the five-terrace mountain, is a sacred Buddhist mountain with five flat peaks. The cultural landscape features 53 monasteries and includes the East Main Hall of Foguang Temple, a structure that was built in 857 during the Tang Dynasty (618-917) and is one of the oldest wooden buildings in China.
The structures on the site represent a catalogue of the way Buddhist architecture developed and influenced palace building in China for more than one millennium. Mount Wutai, located in Shanxi Province, is the highest mountain in northern China and is remarkable for its morphology characterized by precipitous sides with five open treeless peaks. Temples were built on the site from the first century AD to the early 20th century. The 33rd Session of the World Heritage Committee, chaired by Maria Jesus San Segundo, the ambassador and permanent delegate of Spain to UNESCO, was expected to add additional sites to its list from the 37 nominations later Friday and Saturday. |
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