Cuchama and Sacred Mountains

by W.Y. Evans-Wentz

Book Overview

W. Y. Evans-Wentz, great Buddhist scholar and translator of such now familiar works as the Tibetan Book of the Dead and the Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, spent his final years in California. There, in the shadow of Cuchama, one of the Earth's holiest mountains, he began to explore the astonishing parallels between the spiritual teaching of America's native peoples and that of the deeply mystical Hindus and Tibetans. Cuchama...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804004110
• ISBN13: 9780804004114
• Release Date: July 1981
• Publisher: Swallow Press
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.

Customer Reviews

sacred mountains

Dr. Evans-Wentz has done a wonderful job. I met him a few times, back in the early '60s, in San Diego, and he mentioned that he was working on this book. It is great to see it get published. I have been up to the top of Cuchama mountain, which was reached from the town of Tecate, California. So happy to buy and read the book, last year. The author has written many other great books, and his ability to research and write well is commendable. I have all of his books, and am pleased to have this one also.

Heartfelt intro to the sacredness of mountains

I found this book in City Lights ... on my own quest around sacred mountains of the world. It was fun to find Evans-Wentz had anticpated much of my route ... many years before. Cuchama is also Mt Tecate, a mountain on which young American Indians were set to spend the night, coming down with their vocation in life. Well edited by Frank Waters, with what were to me fascinating additional observations. A great intro to the phenomenon of the sacredness of mountians, from a man who lived his life by such things.