The Tibetan Book Of The Dead or The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering
Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1949. 2nd Edition. Pop-Up. 8vo, xxii, 248pp. Publisher's green cloth binding decorated in gilt, frontis plate photo vignette, frontis plate, b&w plates. Ink and pencil notations on recto of rear flyleaf. A small number of pencil underlines in text. Otherwise in near-fine condition. Scarce second edition. Walter Evans-Wentz (1878 - 1965) was an anthropologist and a pioneer in the study of Tibetan Buddhism and the transmission of Tibetan Buddhism to the Western world. 'The Tibetan Book of the Dead', first published in 1927, was the first English translation of the Tibetan Buddhist text the Bardo Thodol. A key Buddhist text and a classic. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #13904
Price: $400.00