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Walter Evans-Wentz

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Anthropologist, orientalist, writer (1878-1965)

United StatesAcademicsLived 1878 to 1965 · aged 87
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Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz was an American anthropologist and writer who was a pioneer in the study of Tibetan Buddhism, and in transmission of Tibetan Buddhism to the Western world, most known for publishing an early English translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead in 1927.

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Lama Kazi Dawa Samdup (left) and Evans-Wentz, circa 1919Lama Kazi Dawa Samdup (left) and Evans-Wentz, circa 1919

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Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz was an American anthropologist and writer who was a pioneer in the study of Tibetan Buddhism, and in transmission of Tibetan Buddhism to the Western world, most known for publishing an early English translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead in 1927. He had three other texts translated from the Tibetan: Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa (1928), Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines (1935), and The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (1954), and wrote the preface to Paramahansa Yogananda's famous spiritual book, Autobiography of a Yogi (1946).

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United States
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Academics
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Academic
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deceased
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Lived 1878 to 1965 · aged 87
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