Theos-Talk Archives (June 2003 Message tt00100)

Marko wrote: <<But were there any esoteric schools of 
buddhism in the history of buddhism, like gnostics and 
platonics were in western tradition?-Marko->>

I seem to recall reading that Gautama Buddha was 
open minded about his Buddhist teaching---at times, 
apparently, somewhat too open in that, as per G. de 
Purucker, he made subsequent adjustments to that 
openess, by way of Sankaracharya, or something like 
that, apparently: see THE DIALOGUES OF G DE P, 
VOL 2. Or see online link to that below.

Apparently there have been, and are, "esoteric" (or at 
least "less than obvious"?) forms of Buddhism here and 
there, now and then ... Gerald Schueler seems to be 
fairly knowledgable (apparently?) about various forms 
of Buddhism, as per, eg, his site: 
http://www.schuelers.com/
As far as I know, he's presently subscribing only to the 
Theosophy Study List, at:
http://list.vnet.net/?enter=theos-l

Here's a few Theos sites:

http://list.vnet.net/?enter=theos-l
http://www.blavatsky.net/features/tools/research-tools.htm
http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/theos/th-selec.htm

For G de P's books online, see: 
http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/theos/gdp-selc.htm#books

For the G de P books I've been quoting from lately, see:
http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/theos/gdp-selc.htm#books