Evans-Wentz, W. y.: - Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz (1878-1965) was an American writer, anthropologist, and student of Tibetan Buddhism. He played a key role in sharing Tibetan Buddhist teachings with the West, and in 1972, he published one of the earliest English translations of The Tibetan Book of th...

Evans-Wentz, W. y.: - Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz (1878-1965) was an American writer, anthropologist, and student of Tibetan Buddhism. He played a key role in sharing Tibetan Buddhist teachings with the West, and in 1972, he published one of the earliest English translations of The Tibetan Book of the Dead.