Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering
Online ISSN : 1347-2852
Print ISSN : 1346-7581
Architectural History and Theory
Study on the Protection of the Lama Temple Heritage in Inner Mongolia as a Cultural Landscape
Jiayu WuYong Fang
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2016 Volume 15 Issue 1 Pages 9-16

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The Lama temple in Inner Mongolia, which was originally built in the Yuan Dynasty, was once the social, economic, and cultural center of Inner Mongolia, and is the most important tangible cultural heritage and intangible cultural carrier for the religious activities of Inner Mongolia throughout its history. The Lama temples in Inner Mongolia are the typical cultural landscape heritage: First, the Lama temples in Inner Mongolia are intentionally designed and created by humans and bear continuous organic evolution; second, the Lama temples in Inner Mongolia are located in a distinct geographical environment of grassland farms The Lama temples in Inner Mongolia bear an architecture type gradually formed by Mongolian society in seeking social development and religious dissemination in the prairie geographical environment, and have strong regional characteristics. Finally, the Lama temples in Inner Mongolia are the typical religious associative landscape. From the point of view of the perspective of cultural landscape heritages, this paper analyzes the characteristics and values of the Lama temple heritages in Inner Mongolia through a category comparison, proposes the organic evolution characteristics of Lama temple heritages in Inner Mongolia and the forms connecting and adapting with nature, and gives suggestions for their protection.
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