Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape' has mentioned 'Monastery' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| Orkhon Valley Cultural LandscapeUNESCO World Heritage SiteLocationMongoliaIncludes Kharkhorum Moiltyn Am Orkhon-7 Khar Balgas Erdene Zuu Monastery Tuvkhun Hermitage Shankh Western Monastery Doit Hill palace Orkhon inscriptions CriteriaCultural:xc2xa0 (ii), (iii), (iv)Reference1081revInscription2004 (28th session)Area121,967xc2xa0ha (301,390 acres)Bufferxc2xa0zone61,044xc2xa0ha (150,840 acres)Coordinates47xc2xb033xe2x80xb224xe2x80xb3N 102xc2xb049xe2x80xb253xe2x80xb3Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf47.55667xc2xb0N 102.83139xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 47.55667; 102.83139Coordinates: 47xc2xb033xe2x80xb224xe2x80xb3N 102xc2xb049xe2x80xb253xe2x80xb3Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf47.55667xc2xb0N 102.83139xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 47.55667; 102.83139Location of Orkhon Valley in Mongolia | WIKI |
| Erdene Zuu monastery is the first Buddhist monastery established in Mongolia. | WIKI |
| Tuvkhun Hermitage is another spectacular monastery, overlooking a hill at 2,600 meters above sea level. | WIKI |
| Erdene Zuu, the earliest surviving Mongol Buddhist monastery, the Tuvkhun Hermitage and the Shank Western monastery are testimony to the widespread and enduring religious traditions and cultural practices of the Northern School of Buddhism which, with their respect for all the forms of life, enshrine the enduring sustainable management practices of this unique cultural landscape of the Central Asian steppes. | UNESCO |
| First and foremost it was the centre of the Mongolian Empire; secondly it reflects a particular Mongolian variation of Turkish power; thirdly, the Erdene Zuu monastery and the Tuvkhun hermitage monastery were the setting for the development of a Mongolian form of Buddhism; and fourthly, Khar Balgas, reflects the Uighur urban culture in the capital of the Uighur Empire. | UNESCO |
| Specifically, the inscribed property provides evidence of the 6th-7th century Turkish memorial sites, the 8th-9th century Uighur capita of Khar Balgas, the 13th-14th century Mongol capital of Kharkhorum, the earliest surviving Mongol Buddhist monastery at Erdene Zuu, the Hermitage Monastery of Tuvkhum, the Shankh Western Monastery, the palace at Doit Hill, the ancient towns of Talyn Dorvoljin, Har Bondgor, and Bayangol Am, deer stones and ancient graves, the sacred mountains of Hangai Ovoo and Undor Sant and archaeological and ethnographic evidence attesting to the long and enduring tradition of nomadic pastoralism. | UNESCO |
| Lack of maintenance of monastery buildings, city walls and Turkic graves could impact on integrity. | UNESCO |