Walter Evans-Wentz
Anthropologist, Author
1878 – 1965
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Who was Walter Evans-Wentz?
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. Today, Evans-Wentz is best known for four texts translated from the Tibetan, Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa, Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines, The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation.
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- Born
- Feb 2, 1878
Trenton - Also known as
- W. Y Evans-Wentz
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Jesus College, Oxford
- Stanford University
- Died
- Jul 17, 1965
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on July 23, 2013
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