The Mongolian cultural heritage "Sutra Great Deity Tara" was inscribed in UNESCO's Asia-Pacific Register of the Memory of the World in May 2014.
A validation ceremony with awards and a certificate for the inscription of the Tara sutra was held at Mongolian National Library on Wednesday.
At the ceremony there were present Minister of Culture, Sport and Tourism Ms Ts.Oyungerel and Secretary-General of the Mongolian National Commission for UNESCO Mr G.Jargalsaikhan and other officials.
The sutra dedicated to Tara is considered one of the smallest books in the world and written by Mongolian philologist S.Shagj in the early 20th century.
This work is a unique piece of art where texts of Green and White Tara were written in 79 lines in less than 5 cm of space using very thin pen point. The unique creation consists of a total of 8,228 characters. In 2002, the Sutra Great Deity Tara was registered to the List of Unique and Priceless Cultural Heritages of Mongolia in accordance with the government resolution.
UNESCO’s Memory of the World Program 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.