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Magic and Mystery in Tibet

10 best books like Magic and Mystery in Tibet (Alexandra David-Néel): From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet, The City Of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo, Stick Out Your Tongue, The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, The Life of Milarepa, The Way of the White Clouds, The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place, The Jewel Tree of Tibet: The Enlightenment Engine of Tibetan Buddhism, Holy Science, Women Of Wisdom

From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
AuthorVikram Seth
Vikram Seth took nearly 2 months from China to India hitchhiking all the way across and finally giving go to temptation only in Kathmandu when he took a flight to Delhi. He passed through rural China, Tibet and Nepal ..enjoying most of the time and even the frequent inconveniences caused by natural disasters...
The City Of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo
AuthorJacob D'Ancona
ISBN1559725230
In 1270 a scholarly Jewish merchant called Jacob d'Ancona set out on a voyage from Italy. A year later, he arrived in China at the coastal metropolis of Zaitun, the "City of Light" (now known as Quanzhou), four years before Marco Polo arrived at Xanadu in 1275. Nothing was known of this epochal journey...
Stick Out Your Tongue
AuthorMa Jian
ISBN0374269882
Tibet is a land lost in the glare of politics and romanticism, and Ma Jian set out to discover its truths. Stick Out Your Tongue is a revelation: a startlingly vivid portrait of Tibet, both enchanting and horrifying, beautiful and violent, seductive and perverse.

In this profound work of fiction,...
The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
AuthorMilarepa
ISBN1570624763
Tibetans accord The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa a classic status comparable to that of the Mahabharata and the Bible, and revere its author as probably the best single exemplar of the religious life. Milarepa was an eleventh-century Buddhist poet and saint, a cotton-clad yogi who avoided the...
The Life of Milarepa
AuthorTsangnyön Heruka
ISBN0140193502
The Life of Milarepa is the most beloved story of the Tibetan people amd one of the greatest source books for the contemplative life in all world literature. This biography, a true folk tale from a culture now in crisis, can be read on several levels: a personal and moving introduction to Tibetan Buddhism,...
The Way of the White Clouds
AuthorLama Anagarika Govinda
"A devoted Buddhist and a spokesman for Tibetan culture, Lama Anagarika Govinda was one of the last foreigners to journey through Tibet before the Chinese invasion of 1950. Govinda's luminous and candid account is a spectacular and gloriously poetic story of exploration and discovery, and a sensitive...
The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place
AuthorIan Baker
ISBN1594200270
The myth of Shangri-la originates in Tibetan Buddhist beliefs in beyul, or hidden lands, sacred sanctuaries that reveal themselves to devout pilgrims and in times of crisis. The more remote and inaccessible the beyul, the vaster its reputed qualities. Ancient Tibetan prophecies declare that the...
The Jewel Tree of Tibet: The Enlightenment Engine of Tibetan Buddhism
AuthorRobert A.F. Thurman
ISBN0743257634
Few teachers in the West possess both the spiritual training and the scholarship to lead us along the path to enlightenment. Robert Thurman is one such teacher. Now, in his first experiential course on the essentials of Tibetan Buddhism, adapted and expanded from a popular retreat he led, Thurman --...
Holy Science
AuthorSri Yukteswar Giri
ISBN0876120516
This extraordinary treatise explores parallel passages from the Bible and the Hindu scriptures to reveal the essential unity of all religions. Swami Sri Yukteswar, the revered guru of Paramahansa Yogananda, outlines the universal path that every human being must travel to enlightenment. He also...
Women Of Wisdom
AuthorTsultrim Allione
ISBN1559391413
Women of Wisdom explores and celebrates the spiritual potential of all women, as exemplified by the lives of six Tibetan female mystics. These stories of great women who have achieved full illumination, overcoming cultural prejudices and a host of other problems which male practitioners do not encounter,...
Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon
AuthorStephan V. Beyer
ISBN0826347290
In the Upper Amazon, mestizos are the Spanish-speaking descendants of Hispanic colonizers and the indigenous peoples of the jungle. Some mestizos have migrated to Amazon towns and cities, such as Iquitos and Pucallpa; most remain in small villages. They have retained features of a folk Catholicism...
Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land
AuthorPatrick French
ISBN1400034175
At different times in its history Tibet has been renowned for pacifism and martial prowess, enlightenment and cruelty. The Dalai Lama may be the only religious leader who can inspire the devotion of agnostics. Patrick French has been fascinated by Tibet since he was a teenager. He has read its history,...
Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle
AuthorElaine Showalter
ISBN0140115870
This book looks at parallels between the ends of the 19th and 20th centuries and their representations in literature, art and film. This book ranges over the trial of Oscar Wilde, the public furore over prostitution and syphilis, moral outrage over the breakdown of the family, abortion rights and AIDS....
The Peyote Dance
AuthorAntonin Artaud
ISBN0374230900
Artaud received a grant to travel to Mexico, where he met his first (Mexican) Parisian friend, the Painter Federico Cantú in 1936 when he gave lectures on the decadence of Western civilization. He also studied and lived with the Tarahumaran people and experimented with peyote, recording his experiences,...
Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism
AuthorJohn Powers
ISBN1559390263
Ommmm, I want to immerse myself in the robed peace of the Tibetan monks. Here's a paraphrased excerpt from the Introduction of this book: A lotus is born in the muck and mud at the bottom of a swamp, but when it emerges on the surface of the water and opens its petals, a beautiful flower appears, unstained...
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
AuthorW.Y. Evans-Wentz
ISBN0195133145
Books, audiotapes, and classes about yoga are today as familiar as they are widespread, but we in the West have only recently become engaged in the meditative doctrines of the East--only in the last 70 or 80 years, in fact. In the early part of the 20th century, it was the pioneering efforts of keen scholars...
Divine Pymander of Hermes Trismegistus
AuthorHermes Trismegistus
ISBN0911662480
A challenging, but enlightening and exhilarating read.

For a novice in hermetic philosophy like myself, it was an eye-opening experience to read material that doesn't just tell you, but that reflects in your day to day life. I would lie if I said I understood the weight of everything said in...
The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds
AuthorJonathan D. Spence
China has transfixed the West since the earliest contacts between these civilizations. With his characteristic elegance and insight, Jonathan Spence explores how the West has understood China over seven centuries. Ranging from Marco Polo's own depiction of China and the mighty Khan, Kublai, in...
The Psychotropic Mind: The World According to Ayahuasca and Iboga
AuthorJeremy Narby
ISBN1594773122
Conversations on shamanism and mind-altering plants by filmmaker Jan Kounen, anthropologist Jeremy Narby, and writer/filmmaker Vincent Ravalec

• Explores how ayahuasca and iboga are tools for communicating with other life-forms

• Offers insights into the role this indigenous...
Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West
AuthorDonald S. Lopez Jr.
ISBN0226493113
Prisoners of Shangri-La is a provocative analysis of the romance of Tibet, a romance that, even as it is invoked by Tibetan lamas living in exile, ultimately imprisons those who seek the goal of Tibetan independence from Chinese occupation.

"Lopez lifts the veil on America's romantic vision...
Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light
AuthorNamkhai Norbu
ISBN1559390077

Dictionary's definition of DREAM:

- series of thoughts, visions, or feelings that happen during sleep

- an idea or vision that is created in your imagination and that is not real

- something that you have wanted very much to do, be, or have for a long time


स्वप्नदर्शन

Dreams,...
Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations
AuthorPaul S Williams
ISBN0415025370
As the back of the book will tell you, the 1989 publication of this work’s first edition made quite a stir and, I quote, “It is still unrivalled.” Indeed, it has become a foundational text for courses on Mahayana Buddhism at the university level, and since almost two decades of burgeoning scholarship...
The Healing Power of Mind: Simple Meditation Exercises for Health, Well-Being, and Enlightenment (Buddhayana Series, VII)
AuthorTulku Thondup
ISBN1570623309
The true nature of our minds is enlightened and peaceful, as the depth of the ocean is calm and clear. But when we mentally grasp and emotionally cling to our wants and worries with all our energy, we lose our own enlightened freedom and healing power, only to gain stress and exhaustion, suffering and overexcitement,...
Mishima's Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend
AuthorChristopher Ross
ISBN0306815133
In 1970, the world-famous Japanese writer Yukio Mishima plunged a knife into his belly and was decapitated using his own antique sword. In the decades since, people have asked endless far-ranging questions about this spectacular suicide. Christopher Ross wondered, What on earth happened to Mishima's...
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