The Tibetan Book of the Dead: or The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering (1949)

Evans-Wentz, W.Y.

Edité par Oxford University Press, London, 1949

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2nd ed.,octavo, original green cloth boards decorated in gilt, frontis plate photo vignette, frontis plate, b&w plates, pp l, 248. Small faint mark near foot of spine. Pages very slightly toned, very clean, near-fine condition. Walter Evans-Wentz (1878 - 1965) was an anthropologist and a pioneer in the study of Tibetan Buddhism and the transmission of Tibetan Buddhism to the Western world. "The Tibetan Book of the Dead", first published in 1927, was the first English translation of the Tibetan Buddhist text the Bardo Thodol. A key Buddhist text and a classic. Scarce.

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• Titre: The Tibetan Book of the Dead: or The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering (1949)
• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, London
• Date de parution: 1949
• Reliure: Decorated Cloth
• Illustrateur: Foreword by Sir John Woodroffe
• Édition: 2nd Edition.