Theos-Talk Archives (June 1999 Message tt00081)

Dear Rich,

I would like very much to have a copy of your work. As I live in Brazil, I
must have the name of your Bank and number of your account to do a money
order to you. And don't know if that will be easy to do, but I will try.

Yours,
Marina Sisson
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De: Richtay@aol.com <Richtay@aol.com>
Para: theos-talk@theosophy.com <theos-talk@theosophy.com>
Data: Segunda-feira, 14 de Junho de 1999 19:35
Assunto: Theos-World Gilbert and Tibet


>As a specialist in Tibetan studies (now having advanced to candidacy and
>receiving my degree in a few months) I can say that Gilbert's study is
>utterly inconclusive.  Gilbert is a nobody in the field, an anthropologist
>who hasn't a clue as to the actual DOCTRINES of Buddhism.
>
>If HPB is so false to her Buddhist sources in Tibet, why have the Dalai
Lama,
>the Panchen Lama, and many other bona fide Tibetan teachers written
prefaces
>to her books, recommending them for study?
>
>As my dissertation will show, Gilbert and others fail to understand that
HPB
>uses Buddhist terms last century that couldn't even be found in
dictionaries.
> There is no way HPB could have has access to the teachings she gives
except
>through FIRST-HAND instruction.
>
>Whether her personal instruction took place in Tibet, in Bhutan, in Ladakh,
>in Nepal, in Assam, in Khotan, in Sahng-shung, in Gilgit, in Kashmir -- I
>truly could not care less.  I don't think HPB's travels can be documented
one
>way or another, as K. Paul Johnson's flimsy books of hypotheses show.  Nor
>should we care.
>
>HPB's works, in her written productions, prove her learning and worth.
Other
>than that, who cares?  For any who are interested, I have the first two
>chapters of my dissertation, "Blavatsky and Buddhism," prepared and ready
to
>go.  This work *proves* using chronology and texts from last century, how
HPB
>was unique and could not have drawn from any known Western sources last
>century.
>
>Simply email me for a copy, and please agree to reimburse my printing and
>mailing costs (about $10 all together).  As a student, I've already sent
out
>over a dozen copies and can't afford to continue to do it gratis.
>
>Rich
>
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