Priscilla Telmon paid tribute to Alexandra David-Néel through an expedition on foot and alone across the Himalaya
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Alexandra David-Néel
Alexandra David-Néel was a French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, anarchist, opera singer, and writer. She is most known for her 1924 visit to Lhasa, Tibet, when it was forbidden to foreigners. David-Néel wrote over 30 books about Eastern religion, philosophy, and her travels, including Magic and Mystery in Tibet, which was published in 1929. Her teachings influenced the beat writers Jack Keroua…
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culture · French explorer, spiritualist and writer (1868–1969) · explorer · anthropologist · writer · diarist · opera singer · anarchist · women's rights activist · singer · orientalist · journalist · also Alexandra David-Néel, Alexandra David-Neel, Louise Davidjjgh, David-Néel
Born 24 October 1868 · Died 8 September 1969 · Q230456
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The great majority of readers and hearers are the same all over the world. I have no doubt that the people of your country are like those I have met in China and India, and these latter were just like Tibetans. If you speak to them of profound Truths they yawn, and, if they dare, they leave you, but if you tell them absurd fables they are all eyes and ears.
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The attainment of transcendent insight is the real object of the training advocated in the traditional Oral Teachings, which do not consist, as so many imagine, in teaching certain things to the pupil, in revealing to him certain secrets, but rather in showing him the means to learn them and discover them for himself.
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2006· 1 entry
1975· 1 entry
Jeanne Denys's thesis was taken up and developed by Jean Marquès-Rivière in the Madrid-based journal Arbor of Consejo superior de Investigationes Cientificas
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1972· 1 entry
Jeanne Denys, who was at one time working as a librarian for David-Néel, would publish Alexandra David-Néel au Tibet: une supercherie dévoilée (approximately: Alexandra David-Neel in Tibet: trickery uncovered), a book wh
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1969· 3 entries
Died 1969-09-08.
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“The attainment of transcendent insight is the real object of the training advocated in the traditional Oral Teachings, which do not consist, as so many imagine, in teaching certain things to the pupil, in revealing to him certain secrets, but rather in showing him the means to learn them and discover them for himself.”
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“The great majority of readers and hearers are the same all over the world. I have no doubt that the people of your country are like those I have met in China and India, and these latter were just like Tibetans. If you speak to them of profound Truths they yawn, and, if they dare, they leave you, but if you tell them absurd fables they are all eyes and ears.”
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1955· 1 entry
And 1956, and, in 1957, only the third edition of the Initiations lamaïques
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1953· 1 entry
A newspiece followed, Le vieux Tibet face à la Chine nouvelle, in which she gave "a certain and documented opinion" on the tense situation in the regions once visited by her
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1952· 1 entry
Published the Textes tibétains inédits ("unpublished Tibetan writings"), an anthology of Tibetan literature including, among other things, the erotic poems attributed to the 6th Dalai Lama
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1945· 1 entry
Alexandra David-Néel went back to India thanks to Christian Fouchet, French Consul at Calcutta, who became a friend; they stayed in touch until David-Néel's death
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1939· 1 entry
After Sous des nuées d'orage (Storm Clouds) was completed in Tachienlu
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1937· 1 entry
Aged sixty-nine, Alexandra David-Néel decided to leave for China with Yongden via Brussels, Moscow and the Trans-Siberian Railway
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1929· 1 entry
Published her most famous and beloved work, Mystiques et Magiciens du Tibet (Magicians and Mystics in Tibet)
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1927· 1 entry
But met with disbelief of critics who had a hard time accepting the stories about such practices as levitation and tummo (the increase of body temperature to withstand cold)
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1925· 2 entries
Was able to assess the remarkable fame her audacity had earned her
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Won the Award Monique Berlioux of the Académie des sports
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1924· 1 entry
Merged with a crowd of pilgrims coming to celebrate the Monlam Prayer Festival
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1914· 1 entry
Met young Aphur Yongden in one of these monasteries, 15 years old, whom she would later adopt as her son
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1912· 1 entry
Arrived at the royal monastery of Sikkim, where she befriended Maharaj Kumar (crown prince) Sidkeong Tulku Namgyal, the eldest son of the sovereign (Chogyal) of this kingdom (which would become a state of India), and
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1899· 1 entry
Composed an anarchist treatise with a preface by Reclus
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1891· 1 entry
Visited India for the first time, and met her spiritual preceptor, Swami Bhaskarananda Saraswati of Varanasi
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1889· 1 entry
Which she noted in her diary that was published under the title La Lampe de sagesse (The Lamp of Wisdom) in 1896
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1871· 1 entry
When David-Néel was two years old, her father Louis David, appalled by the execution of the last Communards, took her to see the Communards' Wall at the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris; she never forgot this early encoun
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1868· 1 entry
Born 1868-10-24.
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