Far Beyond the Garden Gate: Alexandra David-Neel's Journey to Lhasa by Don Brown

Far Beyond the Garden Gate: Alexandra David-Neel's Journey to Lhasa

Don Brown

32 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

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In her time, Alexandra David-Neel was the most famous woman in France. She had traveled extensively in China and Tibet and, in 1924, was the first Western woman ever to enter Tibet’s forbidden capital, Lhasa. Alexandra was a self-taught Buddhist s...

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