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VietNamNet Bridge – The collection of wood blocks of the Vinh Nghiem pagoda is being considered by UNESCO to be recognized as a UNESCO Memory of the World.
UNESCO names Vietnamese wood blocks world memory
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The collection of wood blocks of Buddhist prayer-books at Vinh Nghiem pagoda is Vietnam’s treasure, which is preserved very well.
A working group of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Bac Giang province went to Poland on May 18, to attend some UNESCO meetings from May 19-25, in which nominations for recognition as UNESCO world heritages will be assessed and voted on, including Vietnam’s wood blocks.
The group included Deputy Foreign Minister, Nguyen Thanh Son, Bac Giang’s Vice Chair Nguyen Van Linh, Pham Sanh Chau, Vietnamese Ambassador to Belgium (former Secretary General of the Vietnam UNESCO Committee) and Hoang Thi Hoa, Director of Bac Giang Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
After the meetings in Poland, UNESCO will make public the names of the latest world cultural heritages and world memory heritages in the UK.
UNESCO meets to vote for new world heritages every two years.
UNESCO's Memory of the World Program, also called UNESCO World Documentary Heritage, is an international initiative launched to safeguard the documentary heritage of humanity against collective amnesia, neglect, the ravages of time and climatic conditions, and willful and deliberate destruction.
It calls for the preservation of valuable archival holdings, library collections and private individual compendia all over the world for posterity, the reconstitution of dispersed or displaced documentary heritage, and the increased accessibility to and dissemination of these items.
The program began in 1992, as a way to preserve and promote documentary heritage, which can be a single document, a collection, a holding or an archival fonds that is deemed to be of such significance, as to transcend the boundaries of time and culture. The program is administered by a body known as the International Advisory Committee, or IAC, whose 14 members are appointed by the UNESCO Director-General.
In 2009, a set of Nguyen dynasty wood blocks became the first piece of Vietnamese heritage to win recognition as a UNESCO Memory of the World.
In 2010, 82 stone stele records of imperial examinations of the Le and Mac dynasties, containing the names and related information of doctoral laureates who passed the imperial examinations during the reign of the Le and Mac dynasties from 1442 to 1779; became an inscription of the UNESCO's Memory of the World Program.
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