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In 1972, Jeanne Denys, who was at one time working as a librarian for David-Néel, would publish Alexandra David-Néel au Tibet: une supercherie dévoilée (approximately: Alexandra David-Neel in Tibet: trickery uncovered), a book which caused rather little sensation by claiming to demonstrate that David-Néel had not entered Lhasa.
David-Néel's book shared this vision by proposing a positive, exotic, and spiritual image of Tibet, which went beyond the classic colonialist assertion of superiority and rivalry. [ 4 ] Alexandra David-Néel was a great admirer of Oriental cultures and mysticism, as she herself was a Buddhist .
The Book of Fantasy is the English translation of Antología de la literatura fantástica, ... Alexandra David-Neel, 1931 (begins page 105) "The Idle City".
Alexandra David-Néel, in her book Magic and Mystery in Tibet, describes how she saw a lung-gum-pa runner in action. After witnessing such a monk David-Néel described how "[h]e seemed to lift himself from the ground. His steps had the regularity of a pendulum [...] the traveller seemed to be in a trance. [3]
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One remarkable account given in the book is the author's witnessing of a practitioner of lung-gom-pa. These "flying lamas" [5] were supposedly capable of running with a sustained bouncing motion for several days and nights on end. They had previously been witnessed by Alexandra David-Néel, a French explorer visiting the country in 1924. [6]
According to David-Néel, this happens nearly mechanically, just as the child, when her body is completed and able to live apart, leaves its mother's womb." [ 16 ] : 283 She said she had created such a tulpa in the image of a jolly Friar Tuck -like monk , which she claimed had later developed independent thought and had to be destroyed.
Visiting card with a framed Tortoise, signed by Marie-Madeleine Peyronnet. Alexandra David-Néel gave Marie-Madeleine the nickname “Tortue” after a banal incident. As she walked towards a staircase, she saw a stocking rolled into a ball at her feet, which she mistook for a tortoise.