A Parisian Girl's Adventure in Lhasa

Author: (French) Alexandra David-Neel
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: Alexandra David-Neel (1868-1969), a mythical legendary figure of the 20th century, was a renowned French orientalist, sinologist, explorer, and especially a tibetologist. She was hailed as the "female hero" in France and the entire Western and Eastern academic circles. Her explorations, diaries, works, and materials on the East (especially Tibet and adjacent regions) are abundant, translated into multiple Western and Japanese languages, and have been reprinted many times. She harbored infinite love and reverence for Tibet throughout her life, visiting Tibet and its surrounding areas five times for scientific research, and was even given the Dharma name "Jideng" (Wisdom Lamp). For such a legendary figure and her works, few in China are aware of them. The late Tibetan scholar Li Anzai wrote an article introducing David-Neel and her adopted son, the Tibetan lama Yundeng, in the Kang Dao Monthly in 1945. Mr. Chen Zongxiang once translated her significant work Beyond the Passes: King Gesar (1944). The Tibet Academy of Social Sciences printed an internal edition of her translated work Ancient Tibet Confronts a New China in 1986. Aside from these, there has been no further translation or introduction.