Entre mystiques et magiciens - Alexandra David-Neel face au tantrisme tibétain. Occident over the years

over the years

This book brings together several photographic series from different periods but whose common denominator is the itinerary

including sixty paintings

from court ballets to opera

Entre mystiques et magiciens - Alexandra David-Neel face au tantrisme tibétain. Occident over the yearsAlexandra David Neel has been interested throughout her life in the sometimes most extravagant magical religious beliefs and practices, while deploring the credulity of their Western and Eastern followers. Her fourteen year journey to the Orient allowed her to venture beyond the geographical and psychological limits accepted in Europe. The magicians and mystics she encountered in Tibet embody, in her eyes, both the popular and intellectual aspects of