YONGDEN, Lama Aphur.

£500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Mipam: The Land of the Five Wisdoms. First edition in English of "the first fictional attempt by a Tibetan to depict true Tibetan life" (Winks, p. 89). Written by Aphur Yongden in collaboration with David-Néel, Mipam was also the first novel by a Tibetan lama targeted at Western readers.Yongden, also known as Lopon Tenzin Namdak (1899-1955), met David-Néel in 1919, and the two quickly formed a close bond, travelling together to Lhasa in the 1920s. David-Néel formally adopted him in 1929. His novel was first published in French (Le Lama aux cinq sagesses, 1935).

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