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An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David–Neel of her 1923 expedition to Tibet, the fifth in her series of Asian travels, and her personal recounting of her journey to Lhasa, Tibet's forbidden city. In order to penetrate Tibet and reach Lhasa, she ...
Author
Alexandra David-Neel
Binding
Paperback
Pages
376
Publisher
Harper Perennial
ISBN #
0060596554
EAN Code
9780060596552
ISBN #
3
Alexandra David-Neel was the first European to explore Tibet at a time when foreigners were banned. Few people have led a life of adventure equal to hers, or made so much of it. This book presents a vividly detailed chronicle of David-Neel's quest to conquer her personal demons and of the outer jour...
Author
Barbara Foster, Michael Foster
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
304
Publisher
Overlook Books
ISBN #
0879517743
EAN Code
9780879517748
ISBN #
10
1927. Madame David-Neel's travels in remote parts of Asia, including her fifth expedition, a journey to Tibet, of which she gives a short account in the present book, were undertaken as the result of certain peculiar circumstances. The idea of visiting Lhasa became implanted in her mind. Before the ...
Author
Alexandra David-Neel
Binding
Paperback
Pages
292
Publisher
Important Books
ISBN #
8087888073
EAN Code
9788087888070
ISBN #
7
Noted authority discusses mystic rites and doctrines, methods of psychic training among lamas, magicians, yogis, and more. Covered are various kinds of initiations and their aims, role of the spiritual guide and choice of a master, oral instruction, spiritual exercises, "gymnastics" of respiration, ...
Author
Alexandra David-Neel
Binding
Paperback
Pages
256
Publisher
Dover Publications
ISBN #
0486275795
EAN Code
9780486275796
ISBN #
6
Famed traveler and mystic Alexandra David-Neel, the first Western woman to see the forbidden city of Lhasa, Tibet, examines Eastern concepts of the afterlife in this classic study. The question of what occurs to the individual personality after death is fundamental to the human experience. In Immort...
Author
Alexandra David-Neel
Binding
Paperback
Pages
176
Publisher
Inner Traditions
ISBN #
0892816198
EAN Code
9780892816194
ISBN #
5
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 o...
Author
Ruth Middleton
Binding
Paperback
Pages
232
Publisher
Shambhala
ISBN #
0877734135
EAN Code
9780877734130
ISBN #
4
This is an account of the Madhyamika (Middle Way) school of Buddhism, a method of mediation and enlightenment that was developed by the great Indian teacher Nagarjuna. In a collaboration between the Frenchwoman Alexandra David-Neel and her friend, the Tibetan lama Aphur Yongden, these teaching are p...
Author
Alexandra David-Neel, lama Yongden
Binding
Paperback
Pages
128
Publisher
City Lights Books
ISBN #
0872860124
EAN Code
9780872860124
ISBN #
2
Seeker, adventurer, pilgrim, and scholar, David-Neel (1868–1969) was the first European woman to explore the once-forbidden city of Lhasa. This memoir offers an objective account of the supernatural events she witnessed during the 1920s among the mystics and hermits of Tibet — including levitation, ...
Author
Alexandra David-Neel
Binding
Paperback
Pages
368
Publisher
Dover Publications
ISBN #
0486226824
EAN Code
9780486226828
ISBN #
1