Tibet’s Great Yogi Milarepa by Walter Evans-Wentz

EVANS-WENTZ, Walter Yeeling, editor; Kazi DAWA-SAMDUP, translator. Tibet’s Great Yogi Milarepa: A Biography from the Tibetan Being the Jetsun-Kahbum or Biographical History of Jetsun-Milarepa, According to the Late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup’s English Rendering. London and New York, Oxford University Press, 1958.

Second edition, second impression of the biography of one of Tibet’s great Buddhist teachers.

Evans-Wentz was a distinguished American anthropologist and pioneer in the study of Tibetan Buddhism. First published in 1928, the book contains Kazi Dawa-Samdup’s English translation of The Life of Milarepa, a fifteenth-century Tibetan text by the Kagyu master Tsangnyon Heruka. Jetsun Milarepa, a Tibetan siddha who lived between the eleventh and twelfth century, stands as one of Tibet’s most famous yogis and spiritual poets, whose teachings have influenced several schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

Octavo, pp. xxviii, 315; illustrated; near fine, in green-coloured publisher’s cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt designs to spine and front board, with printed dust jacket (dust jacket slightly stained and worn, shallow creases to extremities).