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Tsaparang – The “Shangri-La” of the Guge Kingdom

Heritage Daily 12 May 2021
Image Credit . drumdredd777 – Shutterstock. The first Westerners to reach Guge was a Jesuit missionary in AD 1624 led by Father António De Andrade and Brother Manoel Marques, where they obtained permission from the Guge King Tri Tashi Drakpa to build a Jesuit church at Tsaparang and instruct the people about Christianity ... Header Image Credit .
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Why the US bit back at China’s ‘Broken Tooth’

Asiatimes 12 Dec 2020
But those fortunes could soon come crashing down, at least if the US government has its way ... Asia Times was not immediately able to contact Wan for this article ... He seemed untouchable until May 1, 1998, when a bomb exploded in a minivan belonging to António Marques Baptista, nicknamed “Rambo”, then the new crime-busting head of Macau’s police force.
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