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Vinh Nghiem Pagoda is recognized by UNESCO
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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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16:29 | 04/10/2012 Source: tuoitre.vn
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Vietnamese-American photographer An-My Le has just won the $0.5mln 2012 MacArthur Fellowship, also known as “Genius Grants”, one of most valuable awards honoring varied creative works in the US.
This year’s award is given to 23 people from various fields including science, literature, music, fine arts, education, and film.
An-My Le, 52, received this award in recognition of her photographs, which "approach the subjects of war and landscape from new perspectives to create images that blur the boundaries between fact and fiction and are rich with layers of meaning,” the judges say.
The winner will receive a cash prize of US$500,000, paid as quarterly installments over five years to pursue their creative activities in the absence of any specific obligations.
The annual MacArthur Fellowship is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to typically 20 to 40 United States citizens or residents, of any age and working in any field, who "show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work".
People are nominated anonymously by a body of nominators who submit recommendations to a small selection committee of about a dozen people, also anonymous.
Before An-My Le, two other Americans with Vietnamese origin won the award in 1987 and 2007, respectively.
An-My Lê, who is currently living and working in New York, was born in Saigon (former name of Ho Chi Minh City) in 1960. In 1975, An-My Le and her family settled in the US.
She received BAS and MS degrees in biology from Stanford University (1981, 1985) and an MFA from Yale University (1993).
Her photographs and films examine the impact, consequences, and representation of war. Whether in color or black-and-white, her pictures frame a tension between the natural landscape and its violent transformation into battlefields.
Among her well-known photography projects are "Viêt Nam" (1994–98), in which Lê’s memories of a war-torn countryside are reconciled with the contemporary landscape; "Small Wars" (1999–2002), and "29 Palms" (2003–04), in which United States Marines preparing for deployment play-act scenarios in a virtual Middle East in the California desert.
Her work explores the disjunction between wars as historical events and the ubiquitous representation of war in contemporary entertainment, politics, and collective consciousness.
During her career, she has received many awards, including fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1997) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (1996).
In 2006 alone, she had three major exhibitions at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2006); Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2006); and International Center of Photography Triennial (2006).
Piror to the year, she had her photographs featured at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City in 2002 and the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1997./.
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Oct
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Phu Tho province host President Ho Chi Minh memorial
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The northern province of Phu Tho will invest 60 billion VND in building a President Ho Chi Minh memorial on Phan Tra hill in the historical relic area of Hung Temple.
Accordingly, the memorial will be built an on area of 8,400m2, according to the traditional architectural style.
It aims to honour the great contribution of President Ho Chi Minh and show gratitude to ancestors who made contributions to building and defending the nation. This will also be a place to educate tradition and report on achievements to Uncle Ho by Vietnamese generations.
The work also aims to raise the profile of and increase the value of the historical relic of Hung temple./
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The appearance of UNESCO Association for the Conservation of Vietnamese Ethnic Culture
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08/10/2012 08:19:40
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Vietnamese version opens
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08/10/2012 08:16:31
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Feet slipper race welcomes in District 7
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04/10/2012 08:49:33
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Women’s Museum most attractive tourist destination in Hanoi
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04/10/2012 08:41:52
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Home throws restoration open to tourists
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04/10/2012 08:39:14
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New boat service fees in Halong Bay
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04/10/2012 08:37:18
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“Witches” of sound
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04/10/2012 08:33:51
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'Green Bridge' exhibition
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04/10/2012 08:31:37
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"Gangnam Style"competition in Vietnam
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04/10/2012 08:30:03
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