Review: Magic and Mystery in Tibet
User Review - George Ilsley - GoodreadsRead this one years ago. Not sure how much of it is actually true. Some of it might be, but my BS detector is pretty active when reading this author. The writing is a strange mixture of learning and ... Read full review
Review: Magic and Mystery in Tibet
User Review - Delia O' Riordan - GoodreadsI was utterly enthralled by this book when I read it a few years after David-Neel's death. I haven't re-read it in the intervening decades so my impressions are those of a much younger me. What I can ... Read full review
Review: Magic and Mystery in Tibet
User Review - Sally - GoodreadsA very relaxing and informative book to read. Alexandra David-Neel writes in a very easy style Read full review
Review: Magic and Mystery in Tibet
User Review - Stephanie Curran - GoodreadsThis is a great book which I nearly finished but have had to move on to other things. Read full review
Review: Magic and Mystery in Tibet
User Review - Rena - GoodreadsWonderful read by the first Western woman to not only visit Tibet but become a lama of the highest order. A very truthful and revealing telling of her time there. Read full review
Review: Magic and Mystery in Tibet
User Review - Hayden Chance - GoodreadsFascinating look at the real Tibet and the influence the ancient Bon had and still still have on that area. Neel penetrated the country and learned secrets that very few outsiders were privileged to see and she did it at time when women were not "allowed" to do such things. Read full review
Review: Magic and Mystery in Tibet
User Review - jma - GoodreadsA must read for many reasons: Alexandra David-Neel was the first woman to travel in Tibet (disguised as a monk) during the later half of the 1930's, she was a practicing buddhist, made extensive studies and reported on Tibetan buddhism & mysticism, and wrote numerous books and articles. Read full review
Review: Magic and Mystery in Tibet
User Review - Ruta Sevo - GoodreadsYou might need an academic interest to read this story of the strangest beliefs and practices revealed by a Victorian woman who became a Tibetan Buddhist nun and learned the Tibetan language to do it. She wrote thirty books in her lifetime. An amazing, unreal bio. Read full review
Review: Magic and Mystery in Tibet
User Review - Anton Channing - GoodreadsI came across this book as part of my research into the concept of a 'tulpa' from Tibetan mysticism, this being a kind of thought-form so intensely visualised by the sorcerer that both the sorcerer ... Read full review
Review: Magic and Mystery in Tibet
User Review - Richard - GoodreadsI read this when I was but a lad. Don't know how it holds up. Read full review
