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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



GROUP OF SHRINES AT SWAYAMBUNATH, ONE Of THE HOLY CITIES OE NEPAL 



Adherents of Buddhism and Hinduism are about equally divided among the estimated 

 5,200.000 population of the country. Nepal yielded to the painstaking study of Brian Hough- 

 ton Hodgson, former British resident at Nepal, some of the most valuable manuscripts now 

 existent concerning Buddhism. The isolation of Nepal and its even, arid climate combined 

 to preserve records of unique historic value 



