Theos-Talk Archives (March 1999 Message tt00109)

Mar 12

Thanks rich:

It is good to have your scholarship available.  But I think it
makes it tough to sometimes use those words much as HPB seems to
have.

I sure don't know the answer to your question about the esoteric
aspect of things except I would say that a BUDDHA of whatever
grade or designation would have to be an esotericist and with a
knowledge of the universe in great detail, would he not ?

Dal

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In a message dated 3/12/99 10:25:55 PM, Dallas wrote:

<<THE DHYAN CHOHAN  [ LORD OF WISDOM ...] >>

It turns out that the term "chohan" is also an ordinary Tibetan
one, to be
found on page 431 of Sarata Chadra Das' TIBETAN-ENGLISH
DICTIONARY.  Chohan in
Tibetan has two primary meanings: 1.  Simply a term for "Buddha."
2.  "A
title of honor given to distinguished scholars."  (It can also
mean a trance-
medium, but I doubt that has any relevance to Theosophical
teachings.)

DhyAni-Chohan would thus mean something like "Buddha of abstract
meditation"
or "formless/transcendent Buddha."

The "MahAchohan" that HPB talks about is probably a title given
to a great
Buddhist Adept in the Tibetan/Mongolian desert, someone who
apparently
incarnates the spiritual nature of AmitAbha, "Buddha of Infinite
Light."  HPB
even gives veiled directions to his hermitage, stating it is 160
leagues to
the west, by a hidden road, from a certain peak called "Snowy
Mountain."  In
several places, the MahAchohan is called the head of the Esoteric
Brotherhood.
Interesting that his title should be a Tibetan Buddhist one.

Is the Esoteric Brotherhood, then, actually an Esoteric Buddhist
one?

Rich


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