Entre mystiques et magiciens - Alexandra David-Neel face au tantrisme tibétain. Occident objects of museums but also

objects of museums but also of artistic creations

NP Goulandris Collection

student of the great philosopher and mathematician al-Kindī

from court ballets to opera

Entre mystiques et magiciens - Alexandra David-Neel face au tantrisme tibétain. Occident objects of museums but alsoAlexandra 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