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Author QuotedW.Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz
Title QuotedTibetan yoga and secret doctrines : or, Seven books of wisdom of the great path, according to the late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English rendering / W.Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz ; arr. and ed. with introd. and annot. to serve as a commentary by W. Y. Evans-Wentz ; with
Date (Year/Month/Day)1968/10/15
ImprintLondon : Oxford University Press. c1958
QuotationI am going home, to the home where I have never been in this body, where I have never been in this washable suit (washed by Sister Gerarda the other day at the Redwoods), where I have never been with these suitcases (in Bangkok there must be a katharsis of the suitcases!), where I have never been with these particular books, Evans-Wentz's Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines and the others.
Quotation SourceThe Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 7, 1967-1968.; Edited by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1998, p. 205-06
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