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He is considered one of the scholars responsible for bringing awareness of Tibetan Buddhism to the West..
He later traveled to the East, where he became a student of Tibetan religious texts and worked with Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup to translate works that would later be published as The Tibetan Book of the Dead or The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane.
Evans-wentz was a scholar of Theosophy who attended Stanford University and Jesus College, Oxford.
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