Evans-Wentz, W. Y

Tibet's great yogī, Milarepa. A biography from the Tibetan being the Jetsün-Kahbum or biographical history of Jetsün-Milarepa according to the late Lāma Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English rendering

Oxford: University Press. London: Humphrey Milford, 1928. First edition, 8vo, pp. xx, 315, [1]; color frontispiece, 6 illustrations on rectos and versos of 4 plates; original green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; near fine copy. Translation of Mi-la-ras-paʼi rnam thar made largely by Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup. Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz (1878-1965) "was an American anthropologist and writer who was a pioneer in the study of Tibetan Buddhism, and in transmission of Tibetan Buddhism to the Western world, most known for publishing an early English translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead in 1927" (Wikipedia). Item #72637

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