Walter Evans-Wentz

Evans-Wentz and Lama Kazi Dawa Samdu, 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.