But for the numerologically obsessed citizens of this Switzerland-sized country squashed between India and China, happiness may also be a time.

An enjoyable quest-story, it was freighted with the author’s usual typographical eccentricities, footnotes, numerological games and inventories.

An early-20th-century Burmese Yantra Book in the exhibition, illustrated with images of animals, deities and numerological charts, might have been used for such a purpose.