The secret lives of Alexandra David-Neel
a biography of the explorer of Tibet and its forbidden practices
1st ed.
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Author
Contributions
- Foster, Michael, 1937- - Contributor
Publication
1998 - Overlook Press, Woodstock, NY, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
82,250 words, Guess
Page Count
329 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1010067M
- ISBN-100879517743
- OCLC Control Number317506982
- OCLC Control Number35990322
- OCLC Control Numbersecretlivesofale0000fost
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number96050127
- Goodreads1114938
- LibraryThing446543
Classifications
- DDC294.3/092
- LCCBQ950.A937 F67 1998
Description
The Secret lives of Alexandra David-Neel is the definitive biography of the first European to explore Tibet at a time when foreigners were banned; few have led a life of adventure equal to hers, or made so much of it. In Tibet and Sikkim, David-Neel lived among hermits and shamans, bandits and pilgrims. She had a torrid love affair with the handsome Maharajah of Sikkim and studied with a genuine master in a cave high in the Himalayas. Herself a Buddhist, David-Neel knew first-hand the Tibet of magic and mystery closed to other travelers from the West, the secret mystical practices of Tibetan Buddhism including out-of-body travel, telepathy, vampiric Shamanism, and tantric sex. After returning to France, she wrote some thirty books, among them My Journey to Lhasa and Magic and Mystery in Tibet. She has had a profound influence on, among other things, Beat culture and the emergence of an American Buddhism.
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