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Bangkok Post
19Mar2008_news03.php
Wat Pho marble inscriptions given historic listing by
Unesco
The historic marble inscriptions in Phra Chetupon
Wimolmangkhalaram temple, or Wat Pho, in Bangkok have
been registered with Unesco's Memory of the World
(MOW) for Asia and the Pacific region.
THAI DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
Wat Pho marble inscriptions given historic listing by
Unesco
The historic marble inscriptions in Phra Chetupon
Wimolmangkhalaram temple, or Wat Pho, in Bangkok have
been registered with Unesco's Memory of the World
(MOW) for Asia and the Pacific region.
Khunying Maenmas Chavalit, chairperson of Thailand's
Memory of the World National Committee for the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organisation (Unesco), confirmed yesterday that the
200-year-old marble inscriptions have been recognised
as MOW documentary heritage.
Registration was approved by Unesco's memory of the
world regional committee for Asia and the Pacific at
its meeting in Canberra last month.
The committee will send an official letter notifying
Thailand of the recognition, and the MOW national
committee will present the letter to Wat Pho's abbot,
Phra Thampanyabodi, on March 31, the anniversary of
King Rama III's death.
On that day, Wat Pho will hold a grand merit-making
ceremony in honour of King Rama III, who commissioned
the inscription of the country's religious and secular
knowledge, including Thai ''hermit'' yoga postures, on
1,360 marble plates in the 1830s .
Wat Pho was built during the Ayutthaya period on the
orders of King Rama I. King Rama III commissioned a
major renovation of the temple.
He instructed that Thai knowledge ranging from
Buddhist precepts, literary works, traditional
medicine and yoga postures, believed to have been
developed by hermits, be inscribed in marble around
the ceremonial hall and nearby pavilions.
This was the first attempt at pooling the art and
science wisdom of the Thai people of the time, after
Thailand had lost her sovereignty to Burma at the end
of the Ayutthaya period.
In those days, the temple also served as an education
centre where educated people gathered to discuss their
knowledge and exchanged opinions.
Nowadays, Wat Pho is famous for its gigantic reclining
Buddha statue and the Thai traditional medicine and
massage clinic. A school has also been established
inside the temple compound.
Culture permanent secretary Veera Rojanapojanarat said
recognition by the MOW regional committee stressed the
need for the country to preserve the marble
inscriptions.
The Fine Arts Department would be assigned to register
all of them.
The Thai Traditional Medical and Massage School is
internationally recognised, with over 100,000 Thai and
foreign students enrolling each year.
Preeda Tangtrongchit, director of the school, said
Unesco's recognition of the ancient inscriptions would
also make Thai traditional massage better known.
Unesco launched the MOW programme in the early 1990s
to guard against collective amnesia, calling for the
preservation of valuable archives and library
collections all over the world.
In the next step, the regional committee will forward
the documentary heritage of the region to the Unesco
headquarters, Khunying Maenmas said.
Nominations from Asia-Pacific to the Unesco MOW
Program will be listed in the International MOW
Register.
Documentary heritage from the region listed in the
International Register includes the Endeavour Journal
of James Cook (Australia), Traditional Music Sound
Archives (China), Records of the Qing's Grand
Secretariat (China), Radio Broadcast of the Philippine
People Power Revolution, and King Ramkhamhaeng's
inscription (Thailand).
Thailand is also applying for the inclusion of the
102-year-old abolition of slavery document passed by
King Rama V in this programme.
Bangkok Post
19Mar2008_news03.php
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