Walter Evans-Wentz
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Walter Evans-Wentz
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Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz 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. He had three other texts translated from the Tibetan: Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa (1928), Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines (1935), and The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (1954), and wrote the preface to Paramahansa
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American anthropologist (1878–1965)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Evans-Wentz
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2007-04-26T16:02:36Z
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2024-09-14T17:16:49Z
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