EVANS-WENTZ, W. Y. [Ed.] Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa. A Biography from the Tibetan being the Jetsün-Kahbum or Biographical History of Jetsün-Milarepa, according to the late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English rendering. London: Oxford University Press, 1958.
Large 8vo., original green cloth lettered and decorated in buddhist decorations to upper cover and spine; in the repeat dust jacket (30s. Net); pages untrimmed; pp. [vii], viii-xxviii, [i], 2-315, [i]; with full colour frontis and a further 6 black and white plates; light spotting to prelims, previous Foyles sticker to rear paste-down; else a very good copy in the original unrestored dust cover which is lightly browned along spine and folds; some marginal splitting to upper and lower portion of front flap fold; miniscule pen mark to upper panel; very good.
Second edition, second impression, first published in 1928. Edited by the American Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz, a pioneer in the research of Tibetan Buddhism, and in the transmission of Tibetan Buddhism to the West. Perhaps best known for publishing an early English translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead in 1927, this work is a standalone volume which was published in an identical format to his other works Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines (1935), and The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (1954).
Jetsun Milarepa (Tibetan: རྗེ་བཙུན་མི་ལ་རས་པ) was a Tibetan siddha, who was famously known as a murderer when he was a young man, before turning to Buddhism and becoming a highly accomplished Buddhist disciple. He is generally considered one of Tibet's most famous yogis and spiritual poets, whose teachings are known among several schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
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