W. Y. Evans-Wentz

Announcing a new edition of the classic study of traditional Celtic spirituality -- a book that unites ancient Paganism, medieval myths, and traditional fairy beliefs into a powerful celebration of Celtic wisdom. W.Y. Evans-Wentz was best known as the translator of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, but in the world of Celtic spirituality, he made his mark through The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries. This magnificent book collects stories, interviews, and legends from all six of the regions where Celtic ways have persisted into the modern world: Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany, and the Isle of Man. It examines how fairy spirituality survived, even in the face of hostility from modern science and religion. It celebrates how beliefs that only a century ago were dismissed as quaint and superstitious were in fact powerful principles of ancient cultures that remained an essential feature of the Celtic world for generation after generation. This edition of The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries includes an insightful new introduction by metaphysical author Carl McColman, emphasizing how this classic work remains important and vital to practitioners of Celtic and magical spirituality, nearly a century after it was written. Book jacket.

The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries

This Book Is A Storehonse Of The Most Profound Teachings Handed Down To Us By Illustrous Masters Of Tibet And India, And Is Addressed To Both The Philosopher And The Scientist. Dr. Carl Jung, Eminent Psychologist, Has Contributed A Lengthy Psychological Commentary Of Unusual Significance.

The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation

Christmas Humphreys

A. F. Price

The Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui-Neng

Derived from a Buddhist funerary text, this famous volume's timeless wisdom includes instructions for attaining enlightenment, preparing for the process of dying, and moving through the various stages of rebirth.

Tibetan Book of the Dead

The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries is a study by W. Y. Evans-Wentz, American anthropologist who studied Celtic mythology and folklore. He performed ethnographic fieldwork collecting fairy folklore in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, Brittany, and the Isle of Man, and in this book he published his degree thesis. His goal was to elucidate the phenomenon of the Celtic belief in fairies. Some of the theories he came across are that the fairies were a cloistered race of dwarfs, that they are a product of our imagination, or that they are incorporeal spirits.

J. A. MacCulloch

T. W. Rolleston

This meticulously edited collection present the mythology, religion, history and the legacy of Celts. _x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ Introduction:_x000D_ Earliest References_x000D_ Golden Age of the Celts_x000D_ Alliances with the Greeks_x000D_ The Era of Alexander the Great_x000D_ The Sack of Rome_x000D_ Celtic Place-names in Europe_x000D_ Early Celtic Art_x000D_ Celts and Germans_x000D_ Downfall of the Celtic Empire_x000D_ Unique Historical Position of Ireland_x000D_ The Celtic Character_x000D_ Cæsar's Account_x000D_ Strabo on the Celts_x000D_ Polybius_x000D_ Diodorus_x000D_ Ammianus Marcellinus_x000D_ What Europe Owes to the Celt_x000D_ Religion:_x000D_ The Religion of the Celts_x000D_ The Gods of Gaul and the Continental Celts_x000D_ The Irish Mythological Cycle_x000D_ The Tuatha dé Danann_x000D_ The Gods of the Brythons_x000D_ The Cúchulainn Cycle_x000D_ The Fionn Saga_x000D_ Gods and Men_x000D_ The Cult of the Dead_x000D_ Primitive Nature Worship_x000D_ River and Well Worship_x000D_ Tree and Plant Worship_x000D_ Animal Worship_x000D_ Cosmogony_x000D_ Sacrifice, Prayer, and Divination_x000D_ Tabu_x000D_ Festivals_x000D_ Accessories of Cult_x000D_ The Druids_x000D_ Magic_x000D_ The State of the Dead_x000D_ Rebirth and Transmigration_x000D_ Elysium_x000D_ The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries_x000D_ Myths:_x000D_ Mythic Powers of the Gods_x000D_ Myths of Origins_x000D_ The Irish Invasion Myths_x000D_ The Early Milesian Kings_x000D_ Tales of the Ultonian Cycle_x000D_ Tales of the Ossianic Cycle_x000D_ The Voyage of Maeldūn_x000D_ Myths and Tales of the Cymry_x000D_ The Mabinogion

The Legacy of Celts: History, Religion, Archeological Finds, Legends & Myths

CELTIC MYTHOLOGY (Illustrated Edition)

This meticulously edited collection present the mythology, religion, history and the legacy of Celts. Contents: Introduction: Earliest References Golden Age of the Celts Alliances with the Greeks The Era of Alexander the Great The Sack of Rome Celtic Place-names in Europe Early Celtic Art Celts and Germans Downfall of the Celtic Empire Unique Historical Position of Ireland The Celtic Character Cæsar's Account Strabo on the Celts Polybius Diodorus Ammianus Marcellinus What Europe Owes to the Celt Religion: The Religion of the Celts The Gods of Gaul and the Continental Celts The Irish Mythological Cycle The Tuatha dé Danann The Gods of the Brythons The Cúchulainn Cycle The Fionn Saga Gods and Men The Cult of the Dead Primitive Nature Worship River and Well Worship Tree and Plant Worship Animal Worship Cosmogony Sacrifice, Prayer, and Divination Tabu Festivals Accessories of Cult The Druids Magic The State of the Dead Rebirth and Transmigration Elysium The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries Myths: Mythic Powers of the Gods Myths of Origins The Irish Invasion Myths The Early Milesian Kings Tales of the Ultonian Cycle Tales of the Ossianic Cycle The Voyage of Maeldūn Myths and Tales of the Cymry The Mabinogion

Celtic Mythology: History of Celts, Religion, Archeological Finds, Legends & Myths

This life story of Milarepa--the important Tibetan religious leader who lived over 800 years ago--is part of a remarkable four-volume series on Tibetan Buddhism produced by the late W.Y. Evans-Wentz, all four of which are being published by Oxford in new editions. While there are many parochial differences among the several sects of Tibetan Buddhism, each holds the Great Yogi Milarepa in the highest reverence and esteem. For exemplified in Milarepa's life, as we discover in these pages, are all of the teachings of the great yogis of India--including those of Gautama the Buddha, the greatest yogi known to history. Amid his detailed introductory and explanatory notes for this text, Evans-Wentz also reveals compelling similarities between the life and thought of Milarepa and those of Jesus, Gandhi, and "saints...in ancient China, or India, or Babylonia, or Egypt, or Rome, or in our own epoch." In composing this translation from the original Tibetan, the late L=ama Kazi Dawa-Samdup, who was Evans-Wentz's guru for many years, aimed to show Western readers "one of our great teachers as he actually lived...much of which is couched in the words of his own mouth, and the remainder in the words of his disciple Rechung, who knew him in the flesh." For this third edition, Donald S. Lopez, author of Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West, has written a critical foreword that updates and contextualizes this crucial part of Evans-Wentz's scholarship within the yoga tradition.

A Biography from the Tibetan being the Jetsün-Kabbum or Biographical History of Jetsün-Milarepa, According to the Late L=ama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering

Tibet's Great Yog=i Milarepa

A Biography from the Tibetan being the Jets?n-Kabbum or Biographical History of Jets?n-Milarepa, According to the Late L=ama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering

The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the texts that, according to legend, Padma-Sambhava was compelled to hide during his visit to Tibet in the late 8th century. The guru hid his books in stones, lakes, and pillars because the Tibetans of that day and age were somehow unprepared for their teachings. Now, in the form of the ever-popular Tibetan Book of the Dead, these teachings are constantly being discovered and rediscovered by Western readers of many different backgrounds--a phenomenon which began in 1927 with Oxford's first edition of Dr. Evans-Wentz's landmark volume. While it is traditionally used as a mortuary text, to be read or recited in the presence of a dead or dying person, this book--which relates the whole experience of death and rebirth in three intermediate states of being--was originally understood as a guide not only for the dead but also for the living. As a contribution to the science of death and dying--not to mention the belief in life after death, or the belief in rebirth--The Tibetan Book of the Dead is unique among the sacred texts of the world, for its socio-cultural influence in this regard is without comparison. This fourth edition features a new foreword, afterword, and suggested further reading list by Donald S. Lopez, author of Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Lopez traces the whole history of the late Evans-Wentz's three earlier editions of this book, fully considering the work of contributors to previous editions (C. G. Jung among them), the sections that were added by Evans-Wentz along the way, the questions surrounding the book's translation, and finally the volume's profound importance in engendering both popular and academic interest in the religion and culture of Tibet. Another key theme that Lopez addresses is the changing nature of this book's audience--from the prewar theosophists to the beat poets to the hippies to contemporary exponents of the hospice movement--and what these audiences have found (or sought) in its very old pages.

W. Y. Evans-Wentz

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