W Y Evans Wentz

WALTER YEELING EVANS-WENTZ, born February 2, 1878, in Trenton, New Jersey, attended Stanford University where he received his B.A. and his M.A. Evans-Wentz traveled extensively in Mexico, Europe, and the Far East. He spent several in Tibet, where he became a Buddhist monk. He was a pioneer in the field of Tibetan Buddhism and authored several classic books on the subject, including the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines, the Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, and...See more

WALTER YEELING EVANS-WENTZ, born February 2, 1878, in Trenton, New Jersey, attended Stanford University where he received his B.A. and his M.A. Evans-Wentz traveled extensively in Mexico, Europe, and the Far East. He spent several in Tibet, where he became a Buddhist monk. He was a pioneer in the field of Tibetan Buddhism and authored several classic books on the subject, including the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines, the Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, and Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa. He died in 1957. See less