Tibetan Buddhism, Celtic folklore scholarship
W. Y. Evans-Wentz
1878 – 1965
Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz was an American anthropologist and Theosophist who bridged Western esotericism and Eastern mysticism, best known for producing the first English translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead (1927). He also conducted extensive fieldwork across Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and Brittany, culminating in The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (1911), a foundational ethnographic study treating fairy belief as a survival of genuine spiritual perception.
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