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A ceremony to honour the reception of a UNESCO certificate for the pagoda’s Buddhist woodblocks to be recognized as part of the world’s Asian-Pacific documentary heritage will take place on October 7th.
The event will be held at Vinh Nghiem Pagoda in Yen Dung District, the northern province of Bac Giang by Bac Giang Provincial People’s Committee.
Director of Bac Giang Provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen The Chinh said, “These Buddhist woodblocks are authentic, unique, and irreplaceable. Therefore, they were recognized as a world regional documentary heritage at a meeting held in Bangkok, Thailand, from May 14-16, by the Asia-Pacific Regional Committee for the Memory of the World Program (MOWCAP)”.
Vinh Nghiem Pagoda now preserves over 3,000 Buddhist woodblocks, carved from the 16th to 19th centuries to serve training of Truc Lam Zen Buddhist monks. Each woodblock has two sides, inscribed with reversed Han Nom script of various contents, including medicine, literature, spells, and Buddhist rules.
The largest woodblock has a length of more than 1m, a width of 40-50cm with unique carved patterns.
These woodblocks are significant in terms of religion, language, literature, and the arts./.
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