1935 TIBETAN YOGA & SECRET DOCTRINES 1st Oxford Press

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Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines or Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path, According to the Late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering. Arranged and Edited with Introductions and Annotations to serve as a Commentary. With Foreword by DR. R. R. MARETT. EVANS-WENTZ, W. Y. Oxford University Press. London. First edition. 1935 - pp. xxiv, 389, (iii). Gilt stamped green cloth/hardcover very good binding blank front endpaper removed else frontispiece, 8 plates (1 coloured). A companion to The Tibetan Book of the Dead . "Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz (February 2, 1878 – July 17, 1965) was an anthropologist and writer who was a pioneer in the study of Tibetan Buddhism . He was born in Trenton, New Jersey , and as a teenager read Madame Blavatsky 's Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine and became interested in the teachings of Theosophy . He received both his B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University , w he studied with William James and William Butler Yeats . He then studied Celtic mythology and folklore at Jesus College, Oxford [1 ] (1907); t he adopted the form Evans-Wentz for his name. He travelled extensively, spending time in Mexico , Europe , and the Far East. He spent the years of the First World War in Egypt . He later travelled to Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) and India , reaching Darjeeling in 1919; t he enountered Tibetan religious read more

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