UNESCO includes Yen Tu in the list of nominations as world heritage

UNESCO's official website has included Yen Tu in the list of heritages expected to be submitted in the coming period.

Since 2012, Quang Ninh province has developed ideas and prepared documents to nominate Yen Tu (Quang Ninh) as a world heritage site.

This dossier will be urgently developed by the People's Committees of Quang Ninh and Bac Giang provinces to be completed in September 2015, then further edited and submitted to UNESCO in 2016 to be considered for recognition as a world heritage site in 2017.

The road to Dong Pagoda - Yen Tu

Compared with world heritages such as Ha Long Bay, Hiraizumi Town, Royal Hill in Ambohimanga (Madagasca)... Yen Tu Scenic Area has all the criteria for protecting the integrity of Yen Tu Monuments and Landscape Complex. Accordingly, the reason why UNESCO is interested in Yen Tu Monuments and Landscape Complex is because it has met the criteria for nomination as a World Cultural Heritage such as:

The above-ground and underground relics excavated at Yen Tu Monuments and Landscape Complex are unique evidence of the long-term cultural exchange process, a place that received many cultural influences from outside, many doctrines and ideologies of global value of human civilization, especially Buddhism and feng shui theory.

The relic system in Yen Tu Scenic Area, including dozens of pagodas, hundreds of stupas, thousands of rare ancient relics, especially rare scriptures and books, containing the spiritual and ideological values ​​of Truc Lam Zen sect and the glorious culture of temples such as Ngoa Van, Quynh Lam (Dong Trieu - Quang Ninh) has created the cultural identity of Buddhism in Dai Viet period in the middle of a mountainous area.

Statue of Buddha King Tran Nhan Tong

The Yen Tu Monuments and Landscape Complex is a unique testament to the interaction between humans and the natural landscape environment, the tradition of continuous human habitation, demonstrated by the fact that Buddhists from thousands of years ago to the present day have used the sacred and mysterious natural landscape of Yen Tu to build and form a Dai Viet Buddhist Center with the presence of a complex of massive architectural works placed in a majestic landscape.

The West of Yen Tu has a large area, including many vegetations and especially a series of architectural works, pagodas bearing the mark of Buddhism from the Ly - Tran dynasties. This area also bears many legends related to the Buddhist Emperor Tran Nhan Tong and the Truc Lam Zen sect, and the exchange between royal culture and ethnic minorities.

Yen Tu has been known and praised since ancient times as a "blessed land", because this place has the wild, majestic, mysterious beauty of nature, of the ancient Truc Lam Zen realm containing information about people and sacred land.

The government and people of Quang Ninh province have been protecting the environment, preserving and developing the heritage site with spiritual roots of the Truc Lam Tam To Zen sect for the future and the future./.

According to VOV