Business Times - 29 June 2009A woman taking a cable-car ride down to the valley of Taihuai at Wutaishan in China's Shanxi province. The sacred Buddhist mountain of Wutai in China and Italy's Dolomite Mountains were among the five new sites named to Unesco's World Heritage List on Friday. Unesco said that Mount Wutai, a 'sacred Buddhist mountain' in northern China that includes 53 monastries, was named a 'cultural landscape'. Wutaishan, which literally means 'five plateau mountain', is one of four sacred mountains in Chinese Buddhism and its temples have for over a thousand years been a focal point for Buddhist pilgrimage for the Chinese, Tibetans, Monguls and Manchus.
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