on chöd has been less widely available to Western readers than some other tantric Buddhist practices. The first Western reports of chöd came from Alexandra David-Néel, a French woman adventurer who lived in Tibet. Her travelogue Magic and Mystery in Tibet, published in 1932, contains an account. Walter Evans-Wentz published the first translation of a chöd liturgy in his 1935 book Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines. Anila Rinchen Palmo translated several essays about chöd in the 1987 collection Cutting Through Ego-Clinging: Commentary on the Practice of Tchod. Since then, Chöd has emerged more into the mainstream of both western scholarly and academic writings. See also References Citations Works cited Further reading Dzogchen Dzogchen practices Tantric practices Tibetan Buddhist philosophical concepts Tibetan Buddhist practices Tibetan words and phrases