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1946516H2195New York: The Philosophical Library. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. xvi 498 pages. Index. Forty-nine black and white photos and illustrations. Map of India. Frontis portrait of author. "The subtle but definite laws by which yogis perform miracles and attain complete self-mastery are explained with a scientific clarity." - Dust jacket. "His unusual life document is certainly one of the most revealing of the depths of the Hindu mind and heart and of the spiritual wealth of India ever to be published in the West." - Preface. Selected as one of the "100 Most Important Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century" by a committee led by Philip Zaleski on behalf of HarperSanFrancisco. Included in the book "50 Spiritual Classics" by Tom Butler-Bowdon. Unmarked with moderate wear to beige publisher's cloth. Binding sound. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Steve Jobs thought so highly of this work that departing attendees of his memorial service were each given a copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Yogananda Paramhansa Yogi Biography Autobiography Luther Burbank . The Philosophical Library hardcover
1927191254London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press 1927. A major text of world literature First edition. The work of Kazi Dawa-Samdup 1868-1922 a Buddhist scholar who served on the Dalai Lama's staff this translation popularized Tibetan Buddhism in the West and inspired the likes of W. B. Yeats James Joyce and Carl Jung. The latter wrote an extended commentary which was published in the 1957 third edition. Evans-Wentz completed and edited Samdup's translation after his death devising an English title that could invoke comparison with the Egyptian Book of the Dead rendered into English by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge in 1867. Octavo. Frontispiece printed on both sides with photographic half-tones 6 plates line drawing. Title page printed in red and black. Original green buckram spine lettered and stamped in gilt with Indian Wheel of Law boards panelled in blind front cover with gilt centrepiece of Lamaic Crossed Dorje top edge gilt others untrimmed. A little rubbing spine gently sunned: near-fine. hardcover
1927000013000Oxford: Oxford University Press 1927. First English language edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. 9 x-xliv 1 2-248 pp. Green cloth with a gold design stamped on the front board the Hindu/Buddhist swastika at the center of the design gold lettering and a gold decoration on the spine; top edge gilt. Title page printed in red and black. Illustrated with a double-sided frontispiece and with several plates of black and white photographs. Foreword by Sir John Woodroffe. World History Encyclopedia Joshua J. Mark "Tibetan Book of the Dead". According to the traditional story Lotus Guru Padmasambhava and a female disciple Yeshe Tsogyal wrote the texts that would become the Bardo Thodol the Tibetan Book of the Dead during the eighth century of the Common Era. The texts became lost to time until they were found and disseminated orally by Karma Lingpa in the fourteenth century. Although written as a guide to assist and comfort the dead the work has taken on a new life as a guide for the living on spiritual transformation and self-improvement. The buddhist text is divided into six sections beginning with the moment of death until the moment that the deceased soul is either reborn or breaks the cycle of reincarnation samsara. The book was intended to shepherd the recently deceased through these cycles of the intermediate stages of reality and was read aloud at funeral rites for either days or weeks at a time by a monk. It was not until the twentieth century that the work was published in English. Walter Evans-Wentz was an anthropologist and scholar of Tibet and sought Dawa-Samdup's help in translating the texts from Tibetan into English. Dawa-Samdup died in 1922 after completing the funerary section of the book and Evans-Wentz filled in the rest accourding to his own knowledge. The Tibetan Book of the Dead is an excellent example of the core tenets of Buddhism and of eastern philosophy in general. A contemporary bookplate on the front pastedown very light foxing to the title page. Overall a beautiful copy. Oxford University Press hardcover
194618262New York: Philosophical Library 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good bound in full blue cloth; with a Good dust jacket. Edge wear to jacket inlcluding some chipping and tears. Crease to bottom corner of several pages. Some mild foxing. 8vo 8 3/4"h x 5 3/4"w. 498 printed pages. One of the most important spiritual books written highly influential to Western ideas of Hindu spirituality with broader spiritual implications. Frontispiece portrait of Yogananda numerous B&W photographic plates. Philosophical Library hardcover
1957140939908London: Oxford University Press 1957. Third Edition. Fine/Near Fine. Third edition. Signed by Walter Y. Evans-Wentz and inscribed to "My brother on the path" Sri Deva Ram Sukul an author and yogi.<p><br /> <br /> Bound in publisher's original green cloth with gilt lettering and decorations. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear light toning to the spone and a stain to the bottom corner of the rear panel. The American folklorist and religious scholar W.Y Evans-Wentz first translated the Tibetan Buddhist text the Bardo Thodol into English in in 1920s. Its title was invented by Wentz due to its similarities with the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead and like that work this one has become a widely-read and studied classic of world spirituality. Oxford University Press unknown
1967140947517Cleveland OH: Renegade Press 1967. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Bound in publisher's side-stapled with a unique front wrap from a Sunday newspaper comics page; inner rear wrapper is a original screenprint. Near Fine with typical toning to newsprint and some offsetting to first page. <p>A scarce issue of Levy's concrete poetry journal with contributions by T. L. Kryss Rolla Rieder rjs and others as well as a section on yoga by famous anthropologist W.Y. Evans-Wentz reprinted from one of his books. Taylor & Horvath P-162. Renegade Press unknown
19573451London: Oxford University Press 1957. third edition. Hardcover. Very Good/fair. 8vo. lxxxiv 249 pp. Frontis. Illustrations. Cloth in dustwrapper clipped very good condition. With a Psychological Commentary by Dr. C. G. Jung Introducing Foreword by Lama Anagarika Govinda and a Foreword by Sir John Woodruffe. Foxing to endpapers. Rough cut pages Price clipped dust wrapper Small tear to dustwrapper and very small chip missing from top of spine. <br/><br/> Oxford University Press hardcover
194934448London: Oxford University 1949. Second edition. Hardbound in very good condition in good dust jacket; jacket worn was in two pieces now nicely repaired in mylar. Ownership signature of Hugh Ripman; According to the Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English rendering; Foreword by Sir John Woodroffe; 264 pages. Oxford University unknown
1949102508London: Oxford University Press. 1949. 2nd ed.octavo original green cloth boards decorated in gilt frontis plate photo vignette frontis plate b&w plates pp l 248. Small faint mark near foot of spine. Pages very slightly toned very clean. Near-fine condition. Scarce second edition. Walter Evans-Wentz 1878 - 1965 was an anthropologist and a pioneer in the study of Tibetan Buddhism and the transmission of Tibetan Buddhism to the Western world. "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" first published in 1927 was the first English translation of the Tibetan Buddhist text the Bardo Thodol. A key Buddhist text and a classic. 2nd Edition. Decorated Cloth. Oxford University Press hardcover
1967551930Cleveland Ohio: Renegade Press 1967. Softcover. Very Good. Vol 4 Number One. Slim quarto. Mimeograph printed by d. a. levy. Two stapled textblocks mimeographed rectos only glued together at the gutter between two leaves one being a great color flyer for the Music Grotto "Cleveland's first psychedelic record shop" with a newsprint spine and cover glued on at both shoulders. Illustrated with the aforementioned flyer two leaves of appropriated Cleveland art cinema flyers and an original two-color silkscreen: "you can have your fucking city bak." Newsprint tanned and offset onto the first page newsprint spine with loss and tiny tears and the lower wrap soiled; the staples have pulled through at the leaf joining the two texblocks i.e. the issue is now essentially two sound stapled textblocks conjoined by a nearly perished newsprint spine. A very good copy of a magazine featuring some truly excellent concrete poems by T. L. Kryss rjs Robert J. Sigmund and levy "The Saundaryalahari; or Flood of Beauty" as well as poems by rolla rieder jiri valoch and the artist timm ulrichs and two essays on Yoga by Walter Evans-Wentz. "goddamnit LOVE PREVAILS this issue is for 'DARCY JUSTINE.'" Taylor and Horvath P-157. Uncommon. [Renegade Press] unknown
1935MB18<p><em>Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines</em> OR <em>Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path</em> According to the late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English rendering. Arranged and Edited with Introductions and Annotations to serve as a Commentary by W. Y. Evans-Wentz. Oxford University Press London. First edition 1935 with "Errata in Cross-references" slip bound in and overlaid on the Table of Contents. Near fine with near fine dustjacket. Price clipped on front flap. Green cloth cover with slight wear to board corners. Gilt page edges at top. Clean pages with slight tanning at top. Black & white images one in color. </p><p>Evans-Wentz compiler and editor of <em>Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa The Tibetan Book of the Dead</em> and other works wrote the preface to <em>Autobiography of a Yogi</em> by Paramahansa Yogananda. The frontipiece of the book has a photograph taken by Evans-Wentz of Sri Yogananda's guru Swami Sri Yukteswar along with other spiritual teachers. Evans-Wentz also contributed two articles to Sri Yogananda's <em>Inner Culture</em> magazine: "Tibetan Precepts" in the December 1937 issue and "The Thousand-Petalled Lotus" in the January 1938 issue.</p> Oxford University Press hardcover
19571210E311London: Oxford University Press 1957. 3rd Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. lxxxiv 249. Very Good Minus. 6 x 8.75 inches 15 x 22.5 cm. Lacking jacket. Green cloth binding. Light stain to rear board. Spine browned and has small marks and stains. Browning and light foxing to page edges. Foxing to endpapers. Light foxing to first few pages text is very clean throughout. Previous owner's name to front pastedown endpaper. First printing of the third and final Evans-Wentz edition. Revised and expanded this edition includes for the first time the psychological commentary by Carl Jung. Scarce. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 6 x 8.75 inches 15 x 22.5 cm. Oxford University Press hardcover
19351000563<p>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.</p> hardcover
2003x-0710308388Kegan Paul Intl 2003. Hardcover. New. 414 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. Kegan Paul Intl hardcover
194971215London: Geoffrey Cumberlege; Oxford University Press 1949. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 248pp. Octavo 22.5 cm Green cloth over boards with gilt stamping. Extremities a bit dinged. Text block only just beginning to crack at p. 241 but still very sturdy. Faint paperclip mark along top edge of front free endpaper and flyleaf. In the dust jacket with light creasing to the edges and subtle soiling. As a funerary text and guide to the afterlife The Tibetan Book of the Dead was read aloud to the dying or recently deceased so that they could know the true nature of the mind and thus obtain enlightenment and liberation from the suffering involved with the endless cycle of death and rebirth.<br /> <br /> "The message is that the Art of Dying is quite as important as the Art of Living or of Coming into Birth of which it is the complement and summation; that the future of being is dependent perhaps entirely upon a rightly controlled death as the second part of this volume setting forth the Art of Reincarnating emphasizes." - the Preface. Geoffrey Cumberlege; Oxford University Press hardcover
1935140943913London: Oxford University Press 1935. First Edition. First edition. xxiv 389 1 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt; top edge gilt. Very Good with dulled and a little rubbed spine bumped corners former owner's name on front free endpaper small tape repair there as well. Oxford University Press unknown
19281000607<p>Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa: A Biography from the Tibetan being the Jetsun-Kahbum or Biographical History of Jetsun-Milarepa According to the Late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering by W.Y. Evans-Wentz published in 1928. Sections Include: The Path of Darkness The Lineage and Birth The Tasting of Sorrow The Practicing of the Black Art The Path of Light The Initiation The Personal Guidance by the Guru The Renunciation The Meditation in Solitude The Nirvana etc. etc. Hardcover with gilt decorated boards with original dust jacket with very light shelfwear to corners and ends of jacket.</p> hardcover
192834176London: Oxford University Press 1928. First edition. Hardbound in very good condition in near very good dust jacket; Jacket corners and spine edges worn and creased with small pieces missing. 315 pages. Oxford University Press unknown
1722-22Oxford/London University Press/Humphrey Milford 1928. gr.-8°. XX 315 S. Mit farb. Frontisp. u. 4 Taf. OLn. m. Goldpräg. vorderes Gelenk stark gelockert Unterstreichungen und Notizen mit Bleistift. EA Oxford/London, University Press/Humphrey Milford 1928. unknown
ria9780710308382_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This volume provides a faithful account of the yogic practices which Milarepa the best known of the Tibetan yogins successfully put to the test of practice. It explores some of the Kargylitpa School's chief doctrines from Indian Buddh hardcover
194913904Oxford: Geoffrey Cumberlege 1949. 2nd Edition. Pop-Up. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo xxii 248pp. Publisher's green cloth binding decorated in gilt frontis plate photo vignette frontis plate b&w plates. Ink and pencil notations on recto of rear flyleaf. A small number of pencil underlines in text. Otherwise in near-fine condition. Scarce second edition. Walter Evans-Wentz 1878 - 1965 was an anthropologist and a pioneer in the study of Tibetan Buddhism and the transmission of Tibetan Buddhism to the Western world. 'The Tibetan Book of the Dead' first published in 1927 was the first English translation of the Tibetan Buddhist text the Bardo Thodol. A key Buddhist text and a classic. Geoffrey Cumberlege unknown
48623or the after-death experiences on the Bardo Plane according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering. With a psychiatric commenrary by Dr. C. G. Jung introducing foreword by Lama Anagarika Govinda and foreword by Sir John Woodruffe. London : Oxford University Press 1957. Third edition. Octavo gilt-stamped cloth bright and sharp dustjacket price-clipped old tape marks verso light stains to spine small chip on lower wrapper bookplate to front pastedown pp. 249 frontispiece. A very good copy. hardcover
1951013204London: Oxford University Press 1951 free end paper has three line name and address in biro green cloth with lmild wear/ discolouration gilt titled spine and decorative upper board including dorge and swastika l 50 249pp tidy clean copy second impression of the second edition of seminal work scarce. Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Oxford University Press hardcover
195475430London: Oxford University Press 1954. First edition. Octavo. lxiv 261 1 printer's slug pp. Plus color frontispiece and 8 full page photographic illustrations. Publisher's sage cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering in unclipped typographic dust jacket couple of very short tears along bottom margins. An exceptionally clean copy in a dust jacket with only a very minor issue. "The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation which was unknown to the Western world until its first publication in 1954 speaks to the quintessence of the Supreme Path or Mah y na and fully reveals the yogic method of attaining Enlightenment. Such attainment can happen as shown here by means of knowing the One Mind the cosmic All-Consciousness without recourse to the postures breathings and other techniques associated with the lower yogas. The original text for this volume belongs to the Bardo Thodol series of treatises concerning various ways of achieving transcendence a series that figures into the Tantric school of the Mahayana. Authorship of this particular volume is attributed to the legendary Padma-Sambhava who journeyed from India to Tibet in the 8th century as the story goes at the invitation of a Tibetan king. Padma-Sambhava's text per se is preceded by an account of the great guru's own life and secret doctrines. It is followed by the testamentary teachings of the Guru Phadampa Sangay which are meant to augment the thought of the other gurus discussed herein.Still more useful supplementary material will be found in the book's introductory remarks by its editor Evans-Wentz and by the eminent psychoanalyst C. G. Jung. The former presents a 100-page General Introduction that explains several key names and notions such as Nirv na for starters with the lucidity ease and sagacity that are this scholar's hallmark; the latter offers a Psychological Commentary that weighs the differences between Eastern and Western modes of thought before equating the "collective unconscious" with the Enlightened Mind of the Buddhist" Oxford University Press. Oxford University Press hardcover
2003DADAX0710308388Routledge 2003-06-15. hardcover. New. 6.46x1.23x9.38. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Routledge hardcover
