Author: YONGDEN, APHUR (LAMA):
Title: YONGDEN, APHUR (LAMA): Mipam, the Land of the Five Wisdoms. A Tibetan Novel. London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1938.
Description: . Pp. (ix), (3), 340. Publisher's cloth, spine lettered in red, a small stain to spine. Original pictorial non-price clipped dust jacket, some loss to upper margin of covers and spine. First English edition, translated from the original French "Le Lama aux cinq sagesses" issued in 1935. Mipam is a love story taken from old Tibetan folktales with valuable information about Tibetan culture and spiritualism. Very rare.Aphur Yongden (1899-1955), also known as Arthur Alfred Longden, was a Tibetan lama and spiritual teacher. He first met the famous explorer and writer Alexandra David-Néel in a monastery in Sikkim in 1914 and they became travelling companions. Together they reached Lhasa in 1924, and David-Néel became the first Western woman to visit the holy city. She adopted Yongden as her son in 1929. Howgego IV D7. 

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