Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines, tr. by W. Y. Evans-Wentz, 1st ed.

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. 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.

Evans-Wentz, compiler and editor of Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines, Tibet’s Great Yogi Milarepa, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and other works, wrote the preface to Autobiography of a Yogi 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 Inner Culture magazine: “Tibetan Precepts” in the December 1937 issue and “The Thousand Petalled Lotus” in the January 1938 issue.