Title: Magic and Mystery in Tibet Binding: Paperback Author: AlexandraDavid-Neel Publisher: DoverPublications

Magic and Mystery in Tibet

Alexandra David-Néel

Penguin??Books

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Souvenir Press Ltd.

This author is the first Westerner to penetrate the sacred city of Lhasa in over 200 years. The text includes a description of the Buddha, Prince Siddhartha Guatama, the theory of Interdependent Origins, and other concepts of Buddhism.

Buddhism: Its Doctrines & Its Methods

Religion & Spirituality

Buddhism

Avon/Books

This exotic mystery involving the pursuit of a murderer across Tibet and into China is written by a Tibetan monk and a nineteenth-century adventuress

The Power of Nothingness (English and French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Lama Yongden

United States

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

For centuries Tibet has been known as the last home of mystery, the hidden, sealed land, where ancient mysteries still survive that have perished in the rest of the Orient. Many men have written about Tibet and its secret lore, but few have actually penetrated it to learn its ancient wisdom. Among those few was Madame Alexandra David-Neel, a French orientalist. A practicing Buddhist, a profound historian of religion, and linguist, she actually lived in Tibet for more than 14 years. She had the great honor of being received by the Dalai Lama; she studied philosophical Buddhism and Tibetan Tantra at the great centers; she meditated in lonely caves and on wind-swept winter mountains with yogi hermits; and she even witnessed forbidden corpse-magic in the forests. Her experiences have been unique. Magic and Mystery in Tibet tells the story of her experiences in Tibet, among lamas and magicians. It is neither a travel book nor an autobiography but a study of psychic discovery, a description of the occult and mystical theories and psychic training practices of Tibet. She tells of great sages and sorcerers that she met; of the system of monastic education; the great teachers and their disciples; Tibetan folklore about their spiritual athletes; reincarnation and memory from previous lives; elaborate magical rites to obtain siddhis; the horrible necromantic magic of the pre-Buddhist Bonpa shamas; mental visualization exercises to create disembodied thought forms (tulpas); visions; phenomena of physical yoga, control of the body heat mechanism; breathing exercises; sending “messages on the wind”; and much similar material. An unusual aspect of Madame David-Neel’s book is that she herself experienced many of the phenomena she describes, yet she describes them with precision and in a matter-of-fact manner, permitting the reader to draw his own conclusions about validity, interpretation in terms of psychology, and value. Particularly interesting for the modern experiencer are her detailed instructions for tumo (the yoga of heat control) and creation of thought projections.

Dover Publications

Mass Market Paperback from Penguin Books, has black cover with Bhavachakra in pinkish color drawn on it.

Occult & Paranormal

Corgi

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Initiations and Initiates in Tibet (Rider Classics)

Rider&Co

Madame David-Neel understands, writes and speaks fluently all the dialects of Tibet. She has spent fourteen consecutive years in the country and the neighbouring regions. She is a professed Buddhist, and so has been able to gain the confidence of the most important Lamas. Her adopted son is an ordained lama; and she herself has undergone the psychic exercises of which she speaks. Madame David-Neel has in fact become, as she herself says, a complete Asiatic, and, what is still more important for an explorer of a country hitherto inaccessible to foreign travelers, she is recognized as such by those among whom she has lived.  

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Magic & Mystery in Tibet

Peter Smith Publisher Inc

This is an account of the Madhyamika (Middle Way) school of Buddhism, a method of mediation and enlightenment that was developed by the great Indian teacher Nagarjuna. In a collaboration between the Frenchwoman Alexandra David-Neel and her friend, the Tibetan lama Aphur Yongden, these teaching are presented clearly and elegantly, intended for the layman who seeks a way to practice and experience the realization of oneness with all existence.
" . . . this is the most direct, no-nonsense, and down-to-earth explanation of Mahayana Buddhism that has been written. Specifically, it is a wonderfully lucid account of the Middle Way method of enlightenment worked out by the great Indian sage Nagarjuna."—Alan Watts, The Book
"The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects by Alexandra David-Neel and Lama Yongden, is always on my night stand. I return to it again and again in different stages of my life."—Marina Ambramovic
"David-Neél herself is often relegated to the ranks of 'women adventurers' this despite the production of some forty-odd books, several of which have wielded an extraordinary influence."—Harry Oldmeadow, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Australia
Alexandra David-Neel was born in 1868 in Paris. In her youth she wrote an incendiary anarchist treatise and was an acclaimed opera singer; then she decided to devote her life to exploration and the study of world religions, including Buddhist philosophy. She traveled extensively to in Central Asia and the Far East, where she learned a number of Asian languages, including Tibetan. In 1914, she met Lama Yongden, who became her adopted son, teacher and companion. In 1923, at the age of fifty-five, she disguised herself as a pilgrim and journeyed to Tibet, where she was the first European woman to enter Lhasa, which was closed to foreigners at the time. In her late seventies, she settled in the south of France, where she lived until her death at 101 in 1969.

The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

City Lights Publishers

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Magic and Mystery in Tibet

Magic and Mystery in Tibet

Buddhism: Its Doctrines & Its Methods

The Power of Nothingness (English and French Edition)

Magic and Mystery in Tibet

Magic and Mystery in Tibet

Initiations and Initiates in Tibet (Rider Classics)

Magic and Mystery in Tibet

Magic & Mystery in Tibet

The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects