An Adventure of a Parisian Woman in Lhasa

Author: (French) David Neel
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Publishing Date: 1997-08-01
Features: Alexandra David-Neel (1868-1969), a legendary figure of the 20th century, was a renowned French orientalist, sinologist, explorer, and particularly a Tibetologist. She was hailed as the "female hero" in France and across the Western and Eastern academic circles. Her explorations, diaries, writings, and research on the East (especially Tibet and its neighboring regions) are abundant, translated into multiple Western and Japanese languages, and have been reprinted numerous times. She harbored infinite love and admiration for Tibet throughout her life. She traveled to Tibet and its surrounding areas five times for scientific research and was given the Dharma name "Jideng" (Wisdom Lamp). For such a legendary figure and her works, however, 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 of Tibet: King Gesar (1944). The Tibet Academy of Social Sciences printed an internal Chinese translation of her book Ancient Tibet Confronts a New China in 1986. Beyond these, there have been no further translations or introductions.