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[[File:Evans-Wentz and Lama Kazi Dawa Samdup circa 1919.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Evans-Wentz and Lama Kazi Dawa Samdup, circa 1919]] | [[File:Evans-Wentz and Lama Kazi Dawa Samdup circa 1919.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Evans-Wentz and Lama Kazi Dawa Samdup, circa 1919]] | ||
'''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. | '''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. | ||
== Writings == | |||
* '''''The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries'''''. London: H. Frowde, 1911 and numerous later publishers. [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t6g162984;view=1up;seq=7 Hathitrust]. | |||
* '''''Cachuma and Sacred Mountains'''''. Chicago: Swallow Press; Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1981. Written with Frank Waters and Charles L. Adams. | |||
* '''''Tibet's Great Yogi, Milarepa: a Biography from the Tibetan, Being the Jetsün-kahbum, or Biographical History of Jetsün-Milarepa, according to the Late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering'''''. London: Oxford University Press, 1928 and later publishers. Edited with introduction and annotations by W. Y. Evans-Wentz from translation of Mi-la-ras-pai rnam-thar. Authors listed as Gtsan-smyon He-ru-ka (1452-1507) and Zla-ba-bsam-'grub (1868-1922). | |||
== Additional resources == | == Additional resources == | ||
Revision as of 17:17, 26 February 2014
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.
Writings
- The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries. London: H. Frowde, 1911 and numerous later publishers. Hathitrust.
- Cachuma and Sacred Mountains. Chicago: Swallow Press; Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1981. Written with Frank Waters and Charles L. Adams.
- Tibet's Great Yogi, Milarepa: a Biography from the Tibetan, Being the Jetsün-kahbum, or Biographical History of Jetsün-Milarepa, according to the Late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering. London: Oxford University Press, 1928 and later publishers. Edited with introduction and annotations by W. Y. Evans-Wentz from translation of Mi-la-ras-pai rnam-thar. Authors listed as Gtsan-smyon He-ru-ka (1452-1507) and Zla-ba-bsam-'grub (1868-1922).
Additional resources
Articles
- Falling Awake: The Life and Message of Joe Miller by Richard Power and David Thompson