Magic and Mystery in Tibet by Alexandra David-Neel - 1935

New York: Claude Kendall, Publisher, 1935. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Good. Introduction by De. A. Arsonval ( About Louise Eugenie Alexandrine Marie David ( 1868 1969) , Belgium- French explorer, spiritualist , reached 30 th Degree in Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Buddhist, anarchist, writer of 30 books, published Anachist Treatis, a traveler in disguise, a Prima Donna in opera in Far East in Indi-China and Hanoi ( 1895 -'97 ) , traveler to Llose, Tibet, the Forbidden City in 1924 , influence on Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Alan Watts, Benjamin Creme, who understood, wrote and spoke fluently in all the dialects of Tibet. Asiatic in outlook, while student of philosophical skeptic, Rene Descartes, and of Claude Bernard, scientific observer. Madame David-Neel's sensational and remarkable, now increasingly scarce book about Tibet/ in 8 Chapters, Titled : Tibet And The Lamas.... A Guest Of The Lamas....A Famous Tibetan Monastery ....Dealing With Ghosts And Demons... Disciples Of Yore And Their Contemporary Emulators.... Psychic Sports.... Mystical Theories And Spiritual Training... Psychic Phenomena In Tibet - How Tibetans Explain Them . With 15 plates, some titled ; A Tibetan Funeral - cutting the dead body into pieces to feed the vultures and wild beasts / A Nun / The Third Son of the Sorcerer of Tranglung / A " Naljorpa " Performing the Rite of " Chod " / A " Naljorpa " from Kham said to be a Wonder Worker, etc...Black colored cloth book with gilt lettering on spine ( 5 7/8 X 8 3/4 1 7/8 ) 320 pages. No dust jacket. Book weighs 2 pounds.

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