Alexandra David-Neel - Orientaliste tibétologue journaliste écrivaine exploratrice

En 1923, après 5 tentatives et un périple de plus de 3000km à travers l'Himalaya, Alexandra David-Néel fut la première européenne à pénétrer dans Lhassa, la ville interdite du Tibet, déguisée en mendiante... Le pays était à l'époque représenté sur les cartes par une tache blanche.
Rendue mondialement célèbre par son exploit, cette aventurière fut tour à tour écrivain, journaliste, orientaliste, bouddhiste, féministe et libre penseuse. Elle parcourut toute sa vie l'Asie qu'elle ne quitta qu'à 78 ans, au bout d'un demi-siècle de rencontres exceptionnelles, d'études philosophiques et de défis sans cesse renouvelés.
Le Bouddhisme du Bouddha : http://tout-ca-pour-ca.over-blog.com/article-le-bouddhisme-du-bouddha-video-6...

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[vingtsunshifu]

Now that I see a young picture of her in the beginning of the video, I'm wondering if it was her after all. I can't confirm that with my father now because he has passed on. Where else can I get info on her beside the books she has written? This duchess was studying stones in the rivers.

[vingtsunshifu]

My father said that she was a duchess, very beautiful, and was fond of wearing riding boots and carrying a short horse whip. I thought that it may have been Alexandra David Neel, but when I showed him pictures of her, he said that it wasn't her. The books show an older Alexandra.

[vingtsunshifu]

Hi Stephan ... I had read her books because of the research I was making on my father's biography. My father in 1920's had acted as a guide through Tibet for a woman explorer, whose name was transliterated to Chinese as Lu-Mali, perhaps Louis-Marie. Alexandra David-Neel was also named Louis-Marie before she took her married name.

[openbuddhistforum]

OM SVASTI Madame Alexandra was very courageous and very educated woman. We like her travel reports in written form.