Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines

Record summary

Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines, edited and translated by W. Y. Evans-Wentz, collects materials on meditation, subtle bodies, guru transmission, and visionary or nonhuman beings. It is useful for comparing intermediary-agent narratives across Tibetan Buddhism, Hindu yoga, and Western occult interpretation. The volume is a mediated anthology rather than a single traditional text, and its terminology reflects early twentieth-century comparative religion. Researchers should identify the particular Tibetan work behind each chapter and examine later scholarship on Evans-Wentz’s editorial choices.