Tibetan journey
| Title | Tibetan journey |
|---|---|
| Author | Alexandra David-Neel |
| Publication | Pilgrims |
| Size | x, 275p |
| Language |  ENG |
| ISBN | 9788177698930 |
| Topics |
Travel--Tibet Memoirs |
| Notes | In 1911 Alexandra left Neel and travelled for the second time to India, to further her study of Buddhism. She was invited to the royal monastery of Sikkim, where she met Maharaj Kumar Sidkeong Tulku Namgyal. She became Sidkeong's "confidante and spiritual sister." She also met the 13th Dalai Lama twise in 1912, and the opportunity to ask him many questions about Buddhism feat unprecedented for a European woman at that time. In the period 1914-1916 she lived in a cave in Sikkim, near the Tibetan border, learning spirituality, together with the young Sikkimese monk aphur Yongden (born 1899), who became her lifelong travelling companion, and whom she would adopt later. From there they trespassed into Tibetan territory, meeting the Panchen Lama in Shigatse (August 1916). When the British authorities learned this-Sikkim was then a British protectorate-Alexandra and Yongden had to leave the country. [goodreads] |
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