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MAGIC AND MYSTERY IN TIBET.
by DAVID-NEEL, Alexandra
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- Hardcover
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New York [1965], Univ. Books. Green cloth, 320p., very good, b.w. photos, intro. by A. Suissman. New Edition. . Excellent primary source by a guest of the Lamas. Her exper- iences in Tibet with the Lamas, the famous Tibetan Monastery and dealing with the Ghosts and Deamons, disciples of Yore and their contemporary emulators, psychic sports. Excellent coverage of the Lamas and their religion, magic and funeral rites. Covers the land and its peoples, culture, customs, religions, psychic sports, spiritual training, and psychic phenomena. Excellent primary source by a guest of the Lamas. Her experiences in Tibet with the Lamas, the famous Tibetan Monastery and dealing with the Ghosts & Deamons, disciples of Yore and their contemporary emulators, psychic sports. Also mystic theories and spiritual training, pyschic phen- omena in Tibet, how Tibetans explain them. . *** A valuable and well primary source. . *** THE AUTHOR: Alexandra David-Néel was a Belgian–French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, anarchist, opera singer, and writer. She is most known for her 1924 visit to Lhasa, Tibet, when it was forbidden to foreigners. . *** . BIBLIOGRAPHY: Yakushi p.94, D46, c. * Color scans are posted to our website. . * .
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- DAVID-NEEL, Alexandra
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- China: Social Science, Eclectic, All Subjects & Disciplines [no Art]; Tibet: All Items: Land, Her People, Mountains, Culture & Ethnology; Buddhism: All Native Asian Religions & Beliefs; Women In China: All Related Items;
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