嵩山现场艺术节即将盛大开幕(5)

正因为这条延绵东西450平方公里的山脉有了以上种种显赫地位，2004年2月，嵩山被联合国教科文组织列进了世界地质公园名册中；时间仅仅过了六年，坐落在嵩山腹地及其周围的少林寺、东汉三阙、中岳庙、嵩岳寺塔、会善寺、嵩阳书院、观星台等一大批历史建筑群，又以登封“天地之中”的整体名义，被联合国教科文组织于2010年8月列入了世界遗产名录。因此，任何人只要稍具历史感，都会在嵩山的这两个世界级身份上掂出其实际文化体重。
Because of all theabove-mentioned prominent statuses, in February 2004, Mount Song,this stretches 450 square kilometers from east to west mountain, was listed asa Global Geopark by UNESCO. Just six years later, in August 2010, a large groupof historical places such as Shaolin Temple, Three Ques (watchtowers) ofEastern Han Dynasty, Zhongyue Temple, Songyue Pagoda, Huishan Temple, SongyangAcademy, Dengfeng Observatory, etc., which are located in and around thehinterland of Mount Song, were also inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage Listunder the name of "the Centrality of Heaven and Earth" as a whole.Therefore, anyone with even a little interest of history will sense the actualcultural weight from Mount Song’s these twoworld-class identities.
我们暂且不论龙门石窟与巩县石窟寺的那些经典造像与西方艺术的渊源关系，也不说1500多年前南天竺国王子菩提达（Bodhidharma）自印度漂洋过海来到嵩山创建佛教禅宗祖庭从而使得佛教中国本土化，更不用跑到中国尼众祖庭永泰寺去瞻仰汉明帝八年时由印度高僧摄摩腾、竺法兰托钵带到东土的那棵树龄高达两千岁但至今依然枝繁叶茂的娑罗树，而仅凭以上几段文字所提供的那几个观看视角，就可大致看出嵩山这座号称“神岳”的崇高之山与世界的关系。在此，我们可响亮地说：