Theos-Talk Archives (September 1999 Message tt00101)

Rich wrote:

> |It is known that both her principal Masters were working in
> | Tibet, apparently heads of monasteries as their EXOTERIC employment.

Nicholas comments;
>
> I would think they would have to be Bhikshus (monks) to head a
> monastery.  They were not Bhikshus, but upasakas (laymen).  What makes
> you think they were heads of monasteries?


Daniel replies:

Nicholas, thanks for your question to Rich.  I was thinking along the
same lines.  Although I learn something everyday (at least I hope I do)
I am unaware of what Rich wrote about HPB's Masters M and KH.
I append BELOW several quotes from primary sources on Master KH.

Please Rich let us know what sources you are relying on and how you are
making your deductions about M and KH.

Daniel


Henry Olcott writes in Old Diary Leaves, Volume 4, p. 6, 1975 printing, of
'the Tashi Lama (whose Master of Ceremonies one of our own revered Mahatmas
is).'


"...my venerated GURU DEVA [Koot Hoomi]...holds a well-known public office
in Tibet, under the TESHU LAMA." (Damodar K. Mavalankar in The Theosophist,
April, 1884. See Damodar And The Pioneers Of The Theosophical Movement,
1965, p. 340.)

"According to Theosophical statements, Koot Hoomi is a Brahmin. . . .He
was...educated in Europe, and attended Professor Fechner's lectures. He
became an Adept, and took up his residence in Thibet, where he is
relic-bearer to the Teschu-Lama, an office in Thibet resembling that---say
of Cardinal Vicar, in the Roman Catholic Church. . . ." (Quoted from the
October, 1884 unpublished draft of the S.P.R.'s First Report. . .On
Phenomena In Connection With The Theosophical Society, p. 16.)

"There is beyond the Himalayas a nucleus of Adepts, of various
nationalities; and the Teschu lama knows them, and they act together, and
some of them are with him and yet remain unknown in their true character
even to the average lamas....My Master [M.] and K.H. and several others I
know personally are there...." (H.P.B.in an 1886 letter to Franz Hartmann,
The Path, March, 1896, p.370. Italics added.)

"In about a week---new religious ceremonies, new glittering bubbles to amuse
the babes with, and once more I will be busy night and day, morning, noon,
and evening...." (Koot Hoomi in Letter No. 68 in the new chronological
edition of The Mahatma Letters; Letter 16 in the 2nd, and 3rd editions. This
letter was written in the latter part of July, 1882. Documentation is
available to show that a large religious festival occurred at Tashilhunpo
during this same period of time.)

"Within the cloister of Tashi-Lhunpo and Si-Dzang, these powers, inherent in
every man, called out by the few, are cultivated to their utmost perfection.
Who, in India, has not heard of the Panchen Rimpoche, the Hutugtu of the
capital of Higher Tibet? His brotherhood of Khe-lan was famous throughout
the land; and one of the most famous 'brothers' was a Peh-ling (an
Englishman) who had arrived one day during the early part of this century,
from the West...." (H.P.B. in Isis Unveiled, 1877, Volume II, p. 618, Boris
de Zirkoff's Collected Writings edition.)

"...the Teshu Lama at Tchigadze...is an Avatar of Tson-kha-pa...De jure the
Teshu Lama is second after the Dalai Lama; de facto he is higher....While
the former (Dalai Lamas) are addressed as 'Jewel of Majesty,' the latter
enjoy a far higher title, namely 'Jewel of Wisdom,' as they are high
Initiates." (H.P.B. in The Theosophical Glossary, p. 247.)





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