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W.Y. Evans-Wentz

Born

in Trenton, New Jersey, The United States

February 02, 1878

Died

July 17, 1965

Genre

Spirituality, Religion

Influences

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Lama Anagarika Govinda, Ramana Maharshi ...more

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Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz (M.A., Stanford University) was an anthropologist and writer who was a pioneer in the study of Tibetan Buddhism.

As a teenager, he read Madame Blavatsky's Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine and became interested in the teachings of Theosophy. At Stanford he studied with William James and William Butler Yeats. He then studied Celtic mythology and folklore at Jesus College, Oxford (1907); there he adopted the form Evans-Wentz for his name. He traveled extensively, spending time in Mexico, Europe, and the Far East. He spent the years of the First World War in Egypt. He later traveled to Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) and India, reaching Darjeeling in 1919; there he encountered Tibetan religious texts firsthand. ...more

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	The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 4.09 avg rating — 1,610 ratings — published 1911	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation by W.Y. Evans-Wentz (Editor), C.G. Jung (Introduction), Kazi Dawa-Samdup (Translator) 4.01 avg rating — 150 ratings — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines: Or Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path, According to the Late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, Donald S. Lopez Jr. (Foreword) 4.25 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 1935 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cuchama and Sacred Mountains by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, Frank Waters (Contributor), Charles L. Adams (Contributor) 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1981 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hindamatu pärlikee by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, Tõnn Sarv (Translator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1935 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tibetan Series 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Geheimlehren aus Tibet: Yoga und der Pfad des Mahayana Buddhismus 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1958	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	4 Vols: the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Or the After-Death Experiences of the Bardo Plane..; the Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation; Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctines; Tibet's Great Yogi, Milarepa 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“As a man is taught, so he believes. Thoughts being things, they may be planted like seeds in the mind of the child and completely dominate his mental content. Given the favourable soil of the will to believe, whether the seed-thoughts be sound or unsound, whether they be of pure superstition or of realizable truth, they take root and flourish, and make the man what he is mentally.”
― W.Y. Evans-Wentz

tags: death, occult, tibetan-book-of-the-dead, tibetan-buddhism

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“Our past thinking has determined our present status, and our present thinking will determine our future status; for man is what man thinks.”
― W.Y. Evans-Wentz, The Tibetan Book of the Dead or The After-death Experiences on the Bardo Plane

tags: future, past, present, thinking, thoughts

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“Thine own consciousness, not formed into anything, in reality void, and the intellect, shining and blissful, --these two,-- are inseparable. The union of them is the Dharma-Kāya state of Perfect Enlightenment.”
― W.Y. Evans-Wentz, The Tibetan Book of the Dead or The After-death Experiences on the Bardo Plane

tags: dharma-kāya

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