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Magic and Mystery in Tibet

Alexandra David-Néel
ISBN: 0821601105 Category:

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OCCULT Body Mind Spirit –

A practicing Buddhist and Oriental linguist recounts supernatural events she witnessed in Tibet during the 1920s. Intelligent and witty, she describes the fantastic effects of meditation and shamanic magic — levitation, telepathy, more.

The classic account of a woman’s extraordinary journey to Tibet in the 1920s.

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 practised in Tibet, the lamas who could run for incredible distances without rest, food or drink and the monks who could defy gravity.

With Mystics and Magicians in Tibet is neither a travel journal nor an autobiography but a collection of studies of religious and mystical practices, occult traditions, and psychic trainings in Tibet and the surrounding areas. David-Néel described the events that brought her in contact with Lamaism (a term used to describe Tibetan Buddhism) and magicians that surrounded that religion. Then she groups multiple mystical theories and beliefs that she learned during her stages in the Gompas, in the presence of religious authorities and yogi hermits in the remote caves of the Himalayas. She illustrated the monastic system of Lamaism, the great teachers and the training of their disciples. David-Néel described in detail what in her words are the ‘Psychic Sports’, a set of practices done by Tibetan monks and mystics to achieve supernatural results, such as surviving naked in the snow with the self-heating technique ‘Tumo’.[1] David-Néel claimed to have experienced many of the phenomena she described.

Originally published 1956, this is the 1965 New Edition.

pp. 320 #230826 Very Good+, light shelfwear to jacket. HARDCOVER

Body, Mind & Spirit / Occultism
Psychology / Parapsychology
Religion / Eastern

Additional Information

Author Alexandra David-Néel
Number of pages320
PublisherUniversity Books
Year Published1965
Binding Type

Hardcover in Dustjacket

Book Condition

Very Good +

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