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Titles of some popular works   Evans-Wentz, Dr (1878-1965)
  • The Tibetan Book Of The Great Liberation, Or The Method Of Realising Nirvana Through Knowing The Mind (with Sonam Wangfel Laden La, Lobzang Mingyur Dorje, Zla-Ba-Bsam-'Grub, Donald S. Lopez)

  • Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines: Or Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path (with Donald S. Lopez Jr.)

  • The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Or, the After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, According to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering (with Karma-Glin-Pa, Donald S. Lopez Jr.)

  • Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa: A Biography from the Tibetan (with Gtsan-Smyon He-Ru-Ka, Zla-Ba-Bsam-'Grub, Donald S. Lopez Jr.)
     

 

Anthropologist, pioneer translator of Tibetan Texts, writer.
 

Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz was born in 1878 in Trenton, New Jersey.

Attended Stanford University where he received his B.A. and his M.A. An interest in the rebirth doctrine took him to the East. He met Kazi Dawa-Samdup in Sikkhim (1919) and collaborated with him on translation of several texts. Afterwards he traveled extensively in Mexico, Europe, and the Far East and subsequently lived, towards the end of his life on a mountain in California.

His biography: Pilgrim of the Clear Light, was written by Ken Winkler. 

 
 
 
 
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