Theos-Talk Archives (May 1998 Message tt00181)

>There's a publication called THE BOOKS OF THE KIU-TE or THE TIBETAN
BUDDHIST
>TANTRAS, A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS by David Reigle published by  the Wizards
>Bookshelf in 1983 (ISBN 0-913510-49-1). Reigle says that "THE SECRET
DOCTRINE
>speaks of seven secret folios of the Kiu-Te, the first of which is the BOOK
OF
>DZYAN. There is reason to believe that quotations from these fourteen
secret
>volumes of commentaries exist in certain of the available commentaries
found
>in the Tanjur portion of the Buddhist Canon. A widespread tradition,
reported
>already in the fourteenth century by Budon(1290-1364) in his HISTORY OF
>BUDDHISM, and earlier recorded in the Kiu-Te commentaries themselves,
speaks
>of lengthy original versions of the BOOKS OF KIU-TE, which cannot be found
>among the texts known in India or Tibet, but can only be found at places
such
>as Shambala, etc. Certain teachers, such as Aryasanga, are said to have
access
>to these books, and some wrote commentaries quoting them." (page 3)
>
>So apparently others have heard of the Stanzas of Dzyan before HPB.
>
>Lmhem111



Much of this is speculation (and hope?). Whenever we read that
something is in "Shambala" it usually means channeled from "inner"
sources.

Jerry S.