The Sutra Great Deity Tara from Mongolia has been inscribed in the Asia-Pacific Register of the Memory of the World, during the “6th General Meeting of the Memory of the World Committee for Asia-Pacific (MOWCAP)” held on 13^th to 15^th May 2014 in Guangzhou, China.

The Sutra Great Deity Tara was included among sixteen new documented items from thirteen countries that have been added to the inscription on the Asia-Pacific Register of the Memory of the World. This is a significant event in Mongolia`s cultural history.

The Sutra Great Deity Tara was a Tibetan sutra of the Green and White tara written by Mongolian philologist, a genuine member of the Institute of Sutra and Letters, former student of religious philosophy school at Gandantegchinlen monastery in the early 20^th century, S.Shagj (1886-1938).

It is uncertain about the time the Sutra was written but researchers believe the Sutra Great Deity Tara is from a hundred years ago. In the Sutra, the White and Green Tara was written each in red and black in with its different abstraction.

The unique work consists of 62 strophe poems, 250 lines, 5718 alpha characters, 2510 lines in a verse, and a total of 8228 characters in Tibetan language.

The Sutra Great Deity Tara was registered to the list of unique and priceless cultural heritages of Mongolia in accordance with Government resolution 118 in 2002.

UNESCO launched the Programme in 1992 to guard against collective loss by calling upon the preservation of invaluable archive holdings and library collections all over the world and ensuring their wide dissemination.