The ‘doctor laureate’ steles at Ha Noi’s Temple of Literature are being sent for consideration into UNESCO’s Memory of the World documentary heritage programme.
Temple steles make bid for UNESCO status [Link no longer active]
Viet Nam News, 30 Mar 2009
The United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation is considering giving documentary heritage status to 82 doctor laureate steles at Ha Noi’s Temple of Literature.
The Temple of Literature’s director Dang Kim Ngoc said the proposal was part of a worldwide programme, Memory of the World, to document heritage.
The 82 stone steles are carved with the names of 2,313 doctors who passed the court examinations between 1442 and 1779 (some material recorded the period between 1484 and 1514) under the Ealy Le, Mac and Late Le dynasties.
