Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00631)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "kpauljohnson <kpauljohnson@y...>" 
<kpauljohnson@y...> wrote:
> Prince Tumen of the Kalmucks had a Tibetan lama, and HPB met them 
> both as a child. Without learning anything of substance about 
> Tibetan Buddhism, this gave her a taste of it which may account for 
> some of her sense of affiliation with it.

Yes, I had forgotten about the Kalmuck connection. Also, I was 
misdirected from its possible significance by claims ot later 
adventures in Tibet. It certainly does fit.