Syamukapu is a personal account about Bhajuratna and his son Gyan Jyoti. Te book stretches over a period of 122 years, from 1882 to 2004 and unfolds in Darkeeling, Kalimpong, Lhasa and kathmandu. Within this span is a period when Buddhist monks were persecuted in Nepal in 1926 and 1944. The story is about a flourishing trade era between Tibet and Nepal carried out by the quiet but determined Newars of Kathmandu under difficult circumstances. It was a period of ...