Lhasa Newar
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Lhasa Newar were the expatriate Newar traders and artisans who traveled between the Kathmandu Valley and Tibet from centuries ago. These Nepalese merchants conducted trade between Nepal, Tibet and Ben
A caravan crossing the Tuna Plain in Tibet, Mt. Chomolhari in background.
Newar traders listening to the gramophone and playing Chinese dominoes (bha), Lhasa, 1921.
Letterhead of Ghorashar business house dated 1958.
Painted eyes and writing in Nepalese script below on the Kumbum Stupa in Gyantse.
Caravan to Lhasa
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Caravan to Lhasa is a travel book and an account of the lives of expatriate Nepalese merchants in Lhasa from the 1920s to the 1960s. Written by Kamal Ratna Tuladhar, the book describes the caravan jou
