Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00665)

"...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(Quoted from the October, 1884 unpublished draft of 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.)