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Hiraizumi – Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land Japan
Site number:
1277
Type of site: Cultural
Date: 11th century
Date of Inscription: 2011
Location: Asia, Japan, Iwate Prefecture, Hiraizumi
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Description: Hiraizumi - Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land comprises five sites, including the sacred Mount Kinkeisan. It features vestiges of government offices dating from the 11th and 12th centuries when Hiraizumi was the administrative centre of the northern realm of Japan and rivalled Kyoto. The realm was based on the cosmology of Pure Land Buddhism, which spread to Japan in the 8th century. It represented the pure land of Buddha that people aspire to after death, as well as peace of mind in this life. In combination with indigenous Japanese nature worship and Shintoism, Pure Land Buddhism developed a concept of planning and garden design that was unique to Japan. --WHMNet's description is from WHC Site, where additional information is available.
  Historic Monuments and Sites of Hiraizumi is a group of six sites from late eleventh- and twelfth-century Hiraizumi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Proposed jointly in 2001 for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List under criteria ii, iii, iv, and vi, it was inscribed in 2011. --Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.
Source: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1277
Reference: 1. UNESCO World Heritage Center (http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1277). 2. Wikipedia.
 
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