Theos-Talk Archives (May 1998 Message tt00351)

Jerry Schueler wrote:

> > Ah, but she claimed to have been initiated into Tibetan Buddhism and
> to have Tibetan Buddhists as Masters (at least some). It seems to
> me that she should have either incorporated their stuff into her teachings
> or told us when and why she did not. I agree that Theosophical
> teachings can be found in most of the world's religions if we look
> real hard. But a lot of basic religious teaching is opposed to what
> Theosophy teaches. Buddhism teaches that the world is created
> through our own karma, and not from gods, cosmocratores, manus,
> and so on, so here is yet another disconnect from her statement
> that she was a Buddhist (she did join Buddhism, along with Olcott)
> and what she says in the SD.


Jerry, there are several issues involved in your statement above
but I will simply deal with one at this point in time:

Could you please provide us with the citations to where
HPB "claimed to have been initiated into Tibetan Buddhism and
to have Tibetan Buddhists as Masters (at least some)"?  I would
really like to read what she said in order to evaluate
what you are saying.