Description: The question of what happens to the individual personality after death is fundamental to the human experience. In Immortality and Reincarnation Alexandra David-Neel, the first Western woman to see the forbidden city of Lhasa, Tibet, examines Taoist, Tibetan, and Hindu concepts concerning life after death. Contrary to Western belief, which sees the human being as composed of a mortal body and an immortal soul, many Easterners believe in the immortality of both the body and the soul. Alexandra David-Neel gained first-hand knowledge of these beliefs and the practices they engendered in the course of her travels at the beginning of this century. In this book she ties them together for a unique look at reincarnation and eternal life in a region untouched by the modern world.

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