Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00688)

Blavatsky mentions in her writings, I could not find the quote now that there is only one original gelugpa center in Nepal and was still active in the time she wrote it. Anyone has any clue which monastery or center would be that in Nepal? There are too many monasteries and centers there. 

Erica

Erica Letzerich <eletzerich@yahoo.com> wrote:

I spend six motnhs in Nepal and there were thousands of Buddhists there. Specially tibetan buddhists that left Nepal and are legal or illegal in Nepal. I remember to have meet a young Lama which had left Tibet hidden from the authotities and crossed walking the Himalayas mountains from Tibet to Kathmandu. The poor Lama was looking for help and support to reach Dharamsalla. I remember that there are an organized group of Tibetans that provide fake passports for Tibetans to be able to enter in India. 

But the point is when I was in Nepal I was looking for the Gelugpas and I could not find them. So which are the existing Gelugpas centers in Nepal today? Any monastery in Nepal that belongs for the Gelugpas? Does anyone has any information on this?

Erica

samblo@cs.com wrote:

Erica,
Thanks for your reply and comments. Yes I have myself read much that 
Blavatsky has written on the Bon, she does not have a lot of good to say about them. 
However with the advent of the Internet and over 100 years of time a new 
perspective that is perhaps containing a fuller discourse upon them is now found 
open to all. Yes she did describe the Bon as "aboriginal" and they claim the 
same saying they trace themselves back 18,000 years to the Celestial Lha as do 
also the Sakya Clan. Blavatsky gives mention of the "Lha." It is also possible 
that her remonstrations on the Bon were in part a "blind" to detour others 
from sources she considered not appropiate to instruct on in her time. As I say 
any one can search "Dalai Lama Bon" on Google and see the intensive interaction 
between the Gelugpa and the Bon in the present time. Weaving the threads 
together is just ordinary research. The Bon have a very manifold Literature on 
Shambalha (Ol Mo Lung Ring).

Yungdrung Bon: The founder of Bon and His Teachings
http://www.yungdrung-bon.net/page/anglais/A-histoire/A-HISTOIRE1_BON.html

John



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