Excerpt from Illustrations of the Literature and Religion of the Buddhists Considering that Nepaul Proper or the country of Newars, has long been the metropolis of Gorkha power, itis rather remarkable that the fashionable and facile Parbattia has not made any mate rial impression on the Newari language. The causes of this (not wholly referable to modern times) are probably, that the fertility and facility of communication characterising the level country of the Newars, soon gave consistency and body to their speech, whilst their religion (buddhism) made them look with jealousy, as well on the more ancient Hindoo emigrants, as on the more modern Hindoo conquerors. In the mountainous districts, strict ly so called, the case was different; and, besides, from whatever reason, the tide of emigration into these regions from the south set chiefly on the provinces west of the Trisul Gunga.* There too, to this day, Brahmanical Hindooism' principally flourishes, its great supporters being the Khas, and, next to them, the Ma gars and Gurungs. For the rest, the population of the kingdom of N epaul is principally Bauddha preferring for the most part the Tibetan model of that faith the N ewars are the chief exception. Between the Buddhism of Tibet and that of N epaul Proper, (or of the Newars) the differences are. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.