(1878-1965) was a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, an authority on comparative religion, and a theosophist who joined the Theosophical Society in 1902. He is most famous for his 1927 translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead which was the first book to describe the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism for the Western public. In it he submitted evidence that Blavatsky was intimately acquainted with the higher lamaistic teachings. He spent several years studying in Tibet, becoming ordained as a Buddhist monk. He met with notable spiritual figures including Yogananda, J. Krishnamurti, Paul Brunton, Ramana Maharishi, Sri Krishna Prem and Shunyata. He also conversed with Annie Besant and worked as a translator with Alexandra David-Néel, and Sir John Woodroffe. He was a close friend of Boris de Zirkoff. The Tibetan Book of the Dead was followed by Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa (1928), Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines (1935), The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (1954), and a final work, Cuchama and Sacred Mountains (1989), was published posthumously. In 1946, he wrote the preface to Yogananda's well known Autobiography of a Yogi. Evans-Wentz remained a Theosophist for the rest of his life, affiliated with Theosophists from diverse Theosophical groups, writing articles for a variety of Theosophical publications, and providing financial support to the Maha Bodhi Society, Self-Realization Fellowship, and the Theosophical Society.

- A personal story regarding Walter Evans-Wentz in Quest Magazine.