Theos-Talk Archives (December 1998 Message tt00120)

Daniel
Thanks for putting all these references together, thus making for a good and
sensible conclusion.
Tony

"To call another stupid is like looking in the mirror of the moon."
>From the "Seven hundred and Seventy Seven Sayings" of the Sage Yi-Tzang-Wa.
6th century, 5th race, 4th round.


>Leon asked:
>
>"Was there any other training to be had in Tibet (at HPB's time) other
>than Tibetan Buddhism?"
>
>
>Tony replied:
>
>"On page 157 of vol I of the SD, for example:"...we hold in this work to
>the "time-honoured" classification of the trans-Himalayan "Arhat
>Esoteric School."" Unfortunately, I do not have their address:-)
>Somebody did actually ask for it the other day. There is nothing to
>connect the "school" above, specifically with a religion, such as
>Tibetan Buddhism.  All religions are the same at source. HPB was trained
>by the Mahatmas."
>
>
>Daniel comments:
>
>In THE MAHATMA LETTERS, KH wrote about "our secluded 'Ashrams'. . . ."
>
>Elsewhere KH stated:
>
>". . . we have our schools and teachers, our neophytes and shaberons
>(superior adepts). . . "
>
>Colonel Olcott also spoke of the Schools of the Adepts:
>
>"I know the Brothers to be living men and not spirits; and they have
>told me that there are schools, under appointed adepts, where their
>Occult science is regularly taught."
>
>Elsewhere Colonel Olcott mentioned that (some of) the Masters'
>ashrams/schools were BOTH *in the Himalayas and the Nilgiris.*
>
>In KH's first letter to A.O. Hume, speaking of "our fraternity", the
>Master goes on to write:  "Tracing our lineage through the vicissitudes
>of Indian civilization TO A REMOTE PAST. . . ."
>
>Also consider what HPB writes at the very beginning of her preface to
>THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE:
>
>"The knowledge of them is obligatory in that school, the teachings of
>which are accepted by many Theosophists."
>
>What "school" is HPB referring to?  Some school of Tibetan Buddhism???
>
>The "fraternity" to which KH and M belonged may have had ashrams and
>schools in the Himalayas and even in Tibet but should we conclude that
>either their ashrams or teachings were of Tibetan Buddhism or even of
>the Gelukpa sect?  I don't think so.
>