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Suzuki, ‘Why did Korea become Christian?’ (2012)

鈴木 崇巨 （著）『韓国はなぜキリスト教国になったか』 春秋社　２０１２

Suzuki, Takahiro. Kankoku wa naze kirisutokyōkoku ni nattaka (*Why did Korea become a Christian country?). Tokyo: Shunjūsha, 2012. 217 pp. ISBN: 9784393222065. [official]

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This nation-state intentionally left blank

Those who ended up in charge of Nepal’s future have once again left the hard decision-making to the last minute: just ninety minutes remain to promulgate a new constitution.

‘Governments’ read blogs, and I’ll refrain from making a comment – but only because it would be unprintable.

Impromptu perfunctory shrine to the late King Birendra and Queen Aishvarya of Nepal, Lalitpur, June 2001.
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Manuscripts vanish from BNF

Some 30,000 books and manuscripts, including nearly 2,000 considered to be of “exceptional historical value”, have gone missing from the Bibliothèque Nationale, France.

The BNF contains important collections of Sanskrit manuscripts, including those gathered in Nepal and originally donated by Brian Houghton Hodgson. So much for the view that priceless South Asian artifacts, including manuscripts, are better off in European hands.


One of the BNF’s Buddhist MSS: the Udānavarga.

– Article: ‘Curator suspected of looting library’, The Guardian, June 28 2005.