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1927.《一个巴黎女子的拉萨历险记》My journey to Lhasa

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1927.《一个巴黎女子的拉萨历险记》My <wbr>journey <wbr>to <wbr>Lhasa

Author: Alexandra David-Neel（1868-1969）
Title: My journey to Lhasa: The Personal Story Of The Only White Woman Who Succeeded In Entering The Forbidden City
书名：《拉薩之旅》又名: 《一个巴黎女子的拉萨历险记》1927年 伦敦版
著者：
Alexandra David-Neel（比/法）亚历山德拉·大卫·奈尔
出版商：
 London : William Heinemann, 1927.
版本/：
 英语。原书法文，同年有英译本在伦敦、纽约出版。
描述：
 XVIII, 309 s. : tvlr.书首有藏书票.
法文版书名：
 Voyage d'une Parisienne à Lhassa : À pied et en mendiant de la Chine à l'Inde à travers le Thibet，1927
注：
 Alexandra David-Neel ; with a new introduction by Peter Hopkirk ; photographs taken by the author.
美国版注：
 Translation of: Voyage d'une Parisienne à Lhassa.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Harper and Brothers, 1927.
主题–LC：（2）
 Lhasa (China)
Tibet (China) -- Description and travel.
标准号码：
 国图系统号：001250991；
分类号：
 中图分类号：DS785；
1927.《一个巴黎女子的拉萨历险记》My <wbr>journey <wbr>to <wbr>Lhasa
1927.《一个巴黎女子的拉萨历险记》My <wbr>journey <wbr>to <wbr>Lhasa
1927.《一个巴黎女子的拉萨历险记》My <wbr>journey <wbr>to <wbr>Lhasa
1927.《一个巴黎女子的拉萨历险记》My <wbr>journey <wbr>to <wbr>Lhasa

My journey to Lhasa : the personal story of the only white woman who succeeded in entering the forbidden city / by Alexandra David-Neel ; illustrated with many photographs taken by the author. [monograph]
亚历山德拉·大卫·奈尔(亚历山德莉娅·大卫－妮尔)Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969) 是法国著名的东方学家、汉学家、探险家及藏学家，她在法国乃至整个西方、东方学界被誉为“女英雄”。她勤奋好学，精通欧、亚多种民族语言，在哲学、历史、地理、文学、宗教等方面都有很深的造诣。她有关东方（特别是西藏及其毗邻地区）的探险记、日记、论著和资料极丰，被译成多种文字，并在法国掀起了西藏研究的热潮。
　　妮尔活了101岁，为表彰她一生的贡献，1965年由法国政府授予第三级荣誉勋位。她逝世后，法国成立了“大卫－妮尔基金会”，并在其故居建立了法国“西藏文化研究中心”。
She was born Louise Eugénie Alexandrine Marie David (born in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne on 24 October 1868, and died in Digne-les-Bains, on 8 September 1969) was a Belgian-French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, anarchist,and writer, most known for her visit to Lhasa, Tibet, in 1924, when it was forbidden to foreigners. David-Néel wrote over 30 books about Eastern religion, philosophy, and her travels. Her teachings influenced beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, philosopher Alan Watts, and Theosophist Benjamin Creme.
Early life：Born in Paris in 1868, she moved to Ixelles (Brussels) at the age of six. During her childhood she had a very strong desire for freedom and spirituality. At the age of 18, she had already visited England, Switzerland and Spain on her own, and she was studying in Madame Blavatsky's Theosophical Society. 'She joined various secret societies - she would reach the thirtieth degree in the mixed Scottish Rite of Freemasonry - while feminist and anarchist groups greeted her with enthusiasm...In 1899, Alexandra composed an anarchist treatise with a preface by the French geographer and anarchist Elisée Reclus (1820-1905). Publishers were, however, too terrified to publish the book, though her friend Jean Haustont printed copies himself and it was eventually translated into five languages.'
Travel to India in 1890：In 1890 and 1891, she traveled through India, returning only when she was running out of money.
Opéra singer in Vietnam：From 1895-1897 she was prima donna with a touring French opera company in Indochina, appearing at the Hanoi Opera House and elsewhere as La Traviata and Carmen.In Tunis in 1900 she met and lived with the railroad engineer Philippe Néel, marrying him in 1904.
Travel to Sikkim in 1911：In 1911 Alexandra left Néel and traveled for the second time to India, to further her study of Buddhism. She was invited to the royal monastery of Sikkim, where she met Maharaj Kumar (crown prince) Sidkeong Tulku Namgyal. She became Sidkeong's 'confidante and spiritual sister' (according to Ruth Middleton), perhaps his lover (Foster & Foster). She also met the 13th Dalai Lama twice in 1912, and had the opportunity to ask him many questions about Buddhism—a feat unprecedented for a European woman at that time.
In the period 1914-1916 she lived in a cave in Sikkim, near the Tibetan border, learning spirituality, together with the young (born 1899) Sikkimese monk Aphur Yongden, who became her lifelong traveling companion, and whom she would adopt later. From there they trespassed into Tibetan territory, meeting the Panchen Lama in Shigatse (August 1916). When the British authorities learned of this—Sikkim was then a British protectorate—Alexandra and Aphur were forced to leave the country.
Travel to Japan in 1916：Unable to return to Europe in the middle of World War I, Alexandra and Yongden traveled to Japan.
Travel to Tibet in 1924：In Japan Alexandra met Ekai Kawaguchi, who had visited Lhasa in 1901 disguised as a Chinese doctor, and this inspired them to visit Lhasa disguised as pilgrims. After traversing China from east to west, they reached Lhasa in 1924, and spent 2 months there.
Return to France in 1928：In 1928 Alexandra legally separated from Philippe, but they continued to exchange letters and he kept supporting her till his death in 1941. Alexandra settled in Digne (Provence), and during the next nine years she wrote books. In 1929, she published her most famous and beloved work, Mystiques et Magiciens du Tibet (Magic and Mystery in Tibet).
Travel to east Tibetan highlands in Tibet 1937：In 1937, Yongden and Alexandra went to Tibet through the former Soviet Union, traveling there during the second World War. They eventually ended up in Tachienlu, where she continued her investigations of Tibetan sacred literature.
One minor mystery relating to Alexandra David-Neel has a solution. In Forbidden Journey, p. 284, the authors wonder how Mme. David-Neel's secretary, Violet Sydney, made her way back to the West in 1939 after Sous des nuées d'orage (Storm Clouds) was completed in Tachienlu. Peter Goullart's Land of the Lamas (not in Forbidden Journey's bibliography), on pp. 110–113 gives an account of his accompanying Ms. Sydney partway back, then putting her under the care of Lolo bandits to continue the journey to Chengdu. Mme. David-Neel evidently remained in Tachienlu for the duration of the war.
While in Eastern Tibet Alexandra and Yongden completed circumambulation of the holy mountain Amnye Machen.
Return to France in 1946：The pair returned to France in 1946. Alexandra was then 78 years old. In 1955 Yongden died at age 56.
Death in France in 1969：Alexandra continued to study and write at Digne till her death at age nearly 101. According to her last will and testament, her ashes and those of Yongden were mixed together and dispersed in the Ganges in 1973 at Varanasi, by her friend Marie-Madeleine Peyronnet.
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