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
$500.00
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, published in 1935. The publisher’s prospectus laid in with the fountain pen signature of Tibetanologist Albert Grünwedel on it. “In these pages, amid useful photographs and reproductions of yoga paintings and manuscripts, readers will encounter some of the principal meditations used by Hindu and Tibetan gurus and philosophers throughout the ages in the attainment of Right Knowledge and Enlightenment. Special commentaries precede each translated text, and a comprehensive introduction contrasts the tenets of Buddhism with European notions of religion, philosophy, and science.” Sections Include: The Supreme Path of Discipleship: The Precepts of the Guru’s, The Twenty-Eight Categories of Yogis Precepts, The Nirvanic Path: The Yoga of the Great Symbol, The Path of Knowledge: The Yoga of the Six Doctrines, etc. etc. Hardcover with bright gilt embossing and original jacket with scotch tape reinforcement of corners and end of jacket.
