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RELIGION
TIBETAN YOGA
AND SECRET DOCTRINES
Second Edition
Seven Books of Wisdom of the Great Path
Arranged and edited by W. Y. Evans-Wentz
Seven authentic Tibetan yoga texts, almost unknown to the occidental
world until their first publication in English in 1935, are now available
in this Galaxy Book edition. A companion to the unique
Tibetan Book
of the Dead
(GB 39), which the late Dr. Evans-Wentz also edited, this
volume, illustrated with photographs and reproductions of
yoga
paintings
and manuscripts, contains some of the principal meditations used by
illustrious Hindu and Tibetan
gurus
and philosophers through the ages
in attaining Right Knowledge and Enlightenment. The editor, whose
inquiry and research extended through more .than fifteen years in the
Orient, spent much time as a pupil of Hindu sages and Buddhist lamas.
He has included a body of orally transmitted tradition and teachings
received at first hand. These will be of particular interest to anthropol-
ogists and psychologists, and to students of comparative religion and
practically applied
Mahayana Yoga.
Special commentaries precede each
carefully rendered text, and a comprehensive preface contrasts the tenets
of Buddhism with European concepts of religion, philosophy, and science.
Yoga,
the tap root of Hinduism, Jainism, Zen Buddhism, and Taoism,
has also influenced the development of Judaism, Islam and Christianity.
These seven distinct but intimately related books, arranged in orderly
sequence, afford a comprehensive view of the spiritual teachings which
have shaped the culture of the Orient, and which are now increasingly
enriching the West's appreciation of the depths of the human psyche.
The late W. Y. Evans-Wentz, formerly of Jesus College, Oxford, is
also the editor of
The Tibetan Book of the Dead (GB 39), The Tibetan
Book of the Great Liberation
(GB 260), and
Tibet's Great Yogi,
Milarepa
(GB 294). His substantial tetralogy of works on
yoga,
based
on translations from the Tibetan, offers an "interpretation from within"
rarely found in the works of Western scholars. During the early years
of this century Dr. Evans-Wentz lived in India and in Sikkim, at the
invitation
at
the Maharaja Sidkyong Tulku, where he studied occult
doctrines intensively.
A GALAXY BOOK
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, NEW YORK
ISBN 0-19-500278-4
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From Photographs by the Editor
MODERN
GURUS
Described on pages xviii-xix
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
Arranged and Edited
with Introductions and Annotations
to serve as a Commentary by
W. Y. EVANS-WENTZ
M.A., D.LITT., D.Sc.
Jesus College, Oxford; Author of
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries;
The Tibetan Book of the Dead;
Tibet's Great
Yogi
Milarepa; The
Tibetan Book of the Great Libera-
tion,
&c.
With Foreword
by
DR. R. R. MARETT
and
Yogic Commentary
by
TRANSLATOR-PROFESSOR
CHEN-CHI CHANG
SECOND EDITION
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© W. Y. Evans-Wentz, 1958
First published by Oxford University Press, London, 1935
Second Edition, 1958
First published as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1967
This
reprint 1978
Printed in the United States of America
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