Theos-Talk Archives (January 2002 Message tt00430)

Brigitte, you wrote in part:

. . . as far as I know 
> Agehananda Bharati is a Buddhist scholar who is in a position to 
know 
> what Buddhism and Tibet is. Walter A. Carrithers is a Theosophical 
> appologetic who is not in a position to know what Buddhism 
> or "letters from Tibet" would be like. Yes I know you and 
Carrithers 
> would nevertheless no matter what not want to agree with Bharati. 
> Question is, who is right ?

Brigitte, the point is not whether Bharati is a Buddhist scholar or 
not and the point is not whether Carrithers is a 
Theosophical "appologetic" or not. 

Your ad hominem argument doesn't help us to determine whether Bharati 
wrote knowledgeably about Madame Blavatsky or not. 

The bottomline is that Carrithers gave SPECIFIC EXAMPLES showing that 
Bharati made mistakes indicating that Bharati did not know what he 
was writing about in his particular comments about Blavatsky. 

Also Carrithers gave more examples in his original essay which I did 
not include in the excerpts posted earlier for Theos-Talk readers.

Daniel H. Caldwell
BLAVATSKY ARCHIVES
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