Theos Bernard, the White Lama: Tibet, Yoga, and American Religious LifeIn 1937, Theos Casimir Bernard (1908 1947), the self proclaimed "White Lama," became the third American in history to reach Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet. During his stay, he amassed the largest collection of Tibetan texts, art, and artifacts in the Western hemisphere at that time. He also documented, in both still photography and 16mm film, the age old civilization of Tibet on the eve of its destruction by Chinese Communists. Based on thousands of