The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation
- Date of account
- 1935
- Location
- Gangtok, Sikkim; Tibetan Buddhist context
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Evans-Wentz’s 1935 The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation translated material concerning liberation, spiritual teachers, deities, and visionary religious experience in the Tibetan tradition. It offers a second, identifiable comparison point with the Bardo Thodol for studying how intermediary beings are represented in texts transmitted through Himalayan Buddhist lineages. The English presentation reflects the translator’s interpretive and comparative vocabulary, and the relationship among Tibetan manuscripts, oral instruction, and the published edition requires specialist verification. It is not evidence for literal supernatural entities.
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