The Idiosyncratic History of Friendliness and Cultural Proximity in Sino-Nepal Relations
Nepal is the only country in South Asia, if not in entire Asia, which has had historically a unique relation with China about two millennia that assimilates them culturally and builds a relation of unique interactions and exchanges, including trade.While they were separated sparsely accessible Himalayas between tem, the interactions was hardly prevented, though it was difficult definitely. By 100 BC, the trade route of China to Western and central Asia were well established through eastern Afghanistan and South Asia was in the beginning connected through Kashmir. By 380, Buddhism was fully established its reign in China and the exchanges of scholars become frequent.