My Journey to Lhasa
Title | My Journey to Lhasa PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandra David-Néel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Lassa |
ISBN |
My Journey to Lhasa
Title | My Journey to Lhasa PDF eBook |
Author | David-Neel |
Publisher | Important Books |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2013-08 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9788087888070 |
Magic and Mystery in Tibet
Title | Magic and Mystery in Tibet PDF eBook |
Author | Madame Alexandra David-Neel |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2012-04-27 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0486119440 |
A practicing Buddhist and Oriental linguist recounts supernatural events she witnessed in Tibet during the 1920s. Intelligent and witty, she describes the fantastic effects of meditation and shamanic magic — levitation, telepathy, more. 32 photographs.
Tibetan Journey
Title | Tibetan Journey PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandra David-Néel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1936 |
Genre | Tibet (China) |
ISBN |
To Lhasa in Disguise
Title | To Lhasa in Disguise PDF eBook |
Author | William Montgomery McGovern |
Publisher | New York, Century |
Pages | 526 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
William Montgomery McGovern was an American adventurer, anthropologist and journalist. He was possibly an inspiration for the character of Indiana Jones. McGovern claims he had to sneak into the Tibet disguised as a local porter. As Time reported in 1938: With a few Tibetan servants, he climbed through the wild, snowy passes of the Himalayas. There, in the bitter cold, he stood naked while a companion covered his body with brown stain, squirted lemon juice into his blue eyes to darken them. Thus disguised as a coolie, he arrived in the Forbidden City without being detected, but disclosed himself to the civilian officials. A fanatical mob led by Buddhist monks stoned his house. Bill McGovern slipped out through a back door and joined the mob in throwing stones. The civil government took him into protective custody, finally sent him back to India with an escort.--Wikipedia.
Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet
Title | Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet PDF eBook |
Author | Sarat Chandra Das |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2022-10-07 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3756841367 |
On the night of my departure from Darjiling, the moon was shining brightly, though some dark clouds presaged a slight fall of rain. Our eyes often turned with anxiety towards the mountain-tops on the eastern outskirts of Nepal, to see if snow was falling on them; and the fear of death in the snows and the hope of overcoming the obstacles of nature alternated within me as I left my home in Darjiling, soon to bid a long farewell to my native land, with but faint hope that I would ever see it again.
Alexandra David-Neel
Title | Alexandra David-Neel PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Middleton |
Publisher | Shambhala Publications |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 1989-07-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0834829258 |
This unique biography explores the inner journey of a woman whose outer life was a thrilling story of passion and adventure. Alexandra David-Neel (1868–1969), born in Paris to a socially prominent family, once boasted, "I learned to run before I could walk!" In the course of a lifetime of more than one hundred years, she was an acclaimed operatic soprano, a political anarchist, a religious reformer, an intrepid explorer who traveled in Tibet for fourteen years, a scholar of Buddhism, and the author of more than forty books. But perhaps the most intriguing of all her adventures was the spiritual search that led her from a youthful interest in socialism and Freemasonry to the teachings of the great sages of India and culminated in her initiation into the secret tantric practices of Tibetan Buddhism. This book reveals the penetrating insight and courage of a woman who surmounted physical, intellectual, and social barriers to pursue her spiritual quest.