Alexandra David-Neel

Magic and Mystery in Tibet

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Alexandra David-Neel was the first European woman to meet the Dalai Lama and in 1924 became the first to enter the forbidden Tibetan capital, Lhasa. She had already spent a decade travelling through China, living in a cave on the Tibetan border, where she learned about Buddhism from hermits, mystics and bandits.Magic and Mystery in Tibet records the mysterious, magical world David-Neel discovered in Tibet. Among the extraordinary events she describes are the Tibetan mystics who could live naked in temperatures below freezing, the psychic sports practiced in Tibet, the lamas who could run for incredible distances without rest, food or drink an… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-285-63792-4
EAN: 9780285637924
Produktnummer: 3959074
Verlag: Profile Books Ltd
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Masse: H20.1 cm x B13.5 cm x D2.0 cm 196 g
Auflage: Main
Gewicht: 196
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Alexandra David-Neel was one of the great travel writers and an authority on Tibetan Buddhism, her writings on Buddhism became a great influence on writers such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. She continued to travel and write until her death at 101 years old.