Lama Anagarika Govinda papers, 1945-1993

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Series 3: Lama Govinda

Sub-Series 1: Auto/biographical Materials and Personal Documents

See also correspondence: Biernath, Irmgard

Request Box 2

Box 2 Folder 1 Certificate of Naturalization, 1938-09-09

2 photocopies

Box 2 Folder 1 Family Tree of Lama Govinda, 2 pages

photocopy, hand-drawn

Box 2 Folder 1 "Lama Govinda," Biography by Yvonne Reed

Box 2 Folder 1 Der Kreis, Informationsblatt des Ordens Ārya Maitreya Mandala: Zweig für Westeuropa, Nummer 174, 1985-01-1985-03

Box 2 Folder 1 Lama Govinda's biography, English translation of excerpt from Wege Zur Ganzheit, 8 pages

Box 2 Folder 1 "Recollections about Lama Govinda," Nyanaponika Mahathera

Box 2 Folder 2 Obituary published in Middle Way Buddhist Society of Great Britain, 1985-08

Box 2 Folder 3 Interview by Karl Ray, The Shambhala Review Vol. 4 No. 4, 1975-11

Box 2 Folder 3 "More German Buddhists", Interview in The Ceylon Independent, 1929-01-11

Sub-Series 2. Correspondence (Letters to and by Govinda), 1954-1985

Box 2 Folder 4 Al, 1979-08-03

Box 2 Folder 4 Coomie, 1977-08-10-1977-12-21

Box 2 Folder 4 Dee Dee, 1979-08-25

Box 2 Folder 4 Gertrude, 1977-11-22-1979-10-22

Box 2 Folder 4 Peterson, Merrill, 1977-06-18

Box 2 Folder 4 Ross, 1979-11-11

Box 2 Folder 5 Sangharakshita, Reverend [Friends of the Western Buddhist Order], 1954-1985

photocopies

Box 2 Folder 6 Sonam Tibeti and Guru Lama Rigdsin Kunsang, 1980

Box 2 Folder 6 Walter, Evans-Wentz, 1954-10-07-1964-02-05

Box 2 Folder 6 Winkler, Ken, 1978-07-21-1980-09-13

Box 2 Folder 6 Zara, 1979-04-13

Box 2 Folder 6 Author Unknown, 1977

Sub-Series 3: Photographs and Prints

Photo album contains pictures of Lama Govinda at various stages of his life; also includes pictures of family members, his partner Li Gotami, and acquaintances, as well as print of painting of Milarepa by Lama Govinda. Housed in Box 3.

Digitized photos are available at Digital Library Collections: https://dlc.library.columbia.edu/catalog?f%5Blib_collection_sim%5D%5B%5D=Collection+on+Lama+Govinda

Sub-Series 4: Public Events

Box 2 Folder 7 The Alan Watts Society for Comparative Philosophy, Inc.

Box 2 Folder 7 Blaisdell Institute, Claremont, 1972

Box 2 Folder 7 International Buddhist Union

Box 2 Folder 7 Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, 1972

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