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EVANS-WENTZ, Walter Yeeling (ed).Biblio.com

The Tibetan Book of the Dead

1927réf. 191086London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press 1927. Presented to an outstanding early 20th-century Tibetologist First edition presentation copy inscribed by the editor on the front free endpaper "To Sir Charles Bell With the compliments of the author W. Y. Evans-Wentz. Jesus College Oxford 12 August 1927." Bell 1870-1945 the former British political representative in Tibet and a friend of the 13th Dalai Lama is thanked in the preface for assisting Evans-Wentz's research in Darjeeling. Bell's career as a Tibetologist began in 1900 when he was posted to Darjeeling. In 1908 he became political agent in Sikkim which made him Britain's senior diplomatic actor in Tibet. In this capacity he had close contact with the translator of this work Kazi Dawa-Samdup 1868-1922 a Buddhist scholar who served on the Dalai Lama's staff and interpreted for Bell in their meetings as well as with Sir John Woodroffe the writer of the foreword. Following his retirement in 1921 Bell "devoted the rest of his life to making Tibet intelligible to the wider world" ODNB writing several works on the region's culture and religion. Evans-Wentz finished this translation after Samdup's death devising an English title that could invoke comparison with the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The text 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. This copy was part of the Bell bequest to the Royal Central Asian Society. The society's accession bookplate and printed library rules are laid down on the front endpaper. Octavo. Frontispiece printed on both sides with photographic halftones 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. With dust jacket from the third edition 1957. Spine lightly sunned gentle toning internally: fine. hardcover

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni15 000,00 £GB≈ 17 915,16 €

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