Walter Evans-Wentz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Walter Evans-Wentz

anthropologist, orientalist, writer

Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1878

Place of Birth: Trenton, New Jersey, United States

Date of Death: 17-Jul-1965

Profession: writer, folklorist, anthropologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz (February 2, 1878 – July 17, 1965) was an American anthropologist and writer who was a pioneer in the study of Tibetan Buddhism, and in transmission of Tibetan Buddhism to the Western world, most known for publishing an early English translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead in 1927.
He translated three other texts from the Tibetan: Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa (1928), Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines (1935), and The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (1954), and wrote the preface to Paramahansa Yogananda's famous spiritual book, Autobiography of a Yogi (1946).