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Tibetan Tale of Love and Magic is essentially the life story of a Tibetan highwayman around the beginning of this century, which he told to Alexandra David-Neel, prompted by the peculiar circumstances of their meeting. Although written in novel form, as the author explains in her preface, this is `a true story, which has been lived`. Her straightforward reportage is both factual and fantastic and synonymous with the mysteries of Tibetan magic.
Alexandra David-Neel (1868-1869), born in Paris to a socially prominent family, once boasted, "I learned to run before I could walk!" In the course of a lifetime of more than one hundred years, she was an acclaimed operatic soprano, a political anarchist, a religious reformer, an interpid explorer who traveled in Tibet for fourteen years, a scholar of Buddhism, and the author of more than forty books. But perhaps the most intriguing of all her adventures was the spiritual search that lead her from a youthful interest in socialism and Freemasonary to the teachings of the great sages in India and culminated into her initiation into the secret tantric practices of Tibetan Buddhism. ISBN - 9788171673384
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Pages : 169
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