FRENCH LANGUAGE Until the mid-18th century, Nepal referred only to the Kathmandu Valley, a key crossing point between the Indian and Tibetan worlds. Its inhabitants, the Newars, developed a brilliant and original art, which found its first impulse in that of India, but acquired itself a considerable reputation. Buddhist and Hindu art flourished in parallel in the valley, including in their tantric, esoteric form. The Nepalese collection of the National Museum of Asian Art - Guimet, in Paris, which has been gradually built up since the end of the 19th century, now comprises more than a hundred
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