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'''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, and in transmission of Tibetan Buddhism to the Western world. As a teenager he read Madame Blavatsky's [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']] and [[The Secret Doctrine (book)|''The Secret Doctrine'']] and became interested in the teachings of [[Theosophy]].
'''Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz''' ([[February 2]], 1878 – [[July 17]], 1965) was a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, and was from his youth a Theosophist associated with the Point Loma community in San Diego. He is most famous for his 1927 translation of ''The Tibetan Book of the Dead'' and other pioneering works that transmitted  [[Tibetan Buddhism]] to the West.
 


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Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz (February 2, 1878 – July 17, 1965) was a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, and was from his youth a Theosophist associated with the Point Loma community in San Diego. He is most famous for his 1927 translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead and other pioneering works that transmitted Tibetan Buddhism to the West.


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