Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00700)

Dear John,



What do you expect of Dalai Lama, of course his duty is to help Tibetans and that is independent of any line any Tibetan Buddhist may follow. The situation in Tibet was very difficult, in 1998 when I spend 6 months there, I meet many Tibetan refugees that just arrived in Nepal. One I mentioned in the previous e-mail, they have even created a secret Tibetan group providing passport and other documents for Tibetan refugees. The Tibetan language was abolished in Tibet where the official language in the schools for Tibetan children is Cantonese. Dalai Lama as a leader of the Tibetan people in exile has but the obligation to support his people independent of any Buddhist sect or line.



But that does not change the fact that the Bon practices are regarded as left hand practices. How could Dalai Lama to make any statement without causing more problems for his people and more divisions? By the way the major form of Tibetan Buddhism spread and divulgated can be questioned. Well it is not so difficult to understand that whatever is promoting left hand teachings is going to be easier accepted by the society and consequently will gather thousand of followers. Or do you think that a Lama just because has the status of a Lama is somebody that may have any spiritual status? Do you know how many Lamas I saw in Nepal wearing gold watches and jewellery and not only in USA as well how many Lamas are but making commerce of Buddhism? The lamas and the monks are forbidden to accept presents and money according to Buddha's teachings. Well that seems do not be a problem for many Tibetan Buddhists.



Well the world has not changed that much we are not more different than 1.000 years ago, the major difference is the advance of technology and information in major quantity circulating. Meanwhile dogmatism, conflicts of every kind, war etc still going on, Major changes can be seen when there will be also changes in the human nature and that needs quite long time to be something reflected in the society. Of course a better system would help also. 







Erica









Erica,
Thanks for your comments and your posts in regard to HPB and her contents 
about the Bon. Well, we have all read this I think, and due to our very 
limited exposure and direct knowledge by personal investigation of what the Bon are 
for ourselves, have been recipient by proxy of Radha's perception as she has 
published it. But look at the real historical history of each of the Orders of 
Tibet by reading a vast literature now available online that was not there for 
all those people all these many years, and one finds real conflict with the 
popularized version of Theosophy. I think it is important to rather than reject 
out of hand any new valid history of all the elements of Tibetan Orders would 
be to make a decision to remain fixated in a state of stasis of knowledge and 
result in error from which one then operates from, and it a severe limitation 
if one deigns to turn the eyes from the facts. Yes, as Madame Blavatsky 
indicates sorcery and other repugnant practices were done in Tibet but that does 
not mean that all Bon followed the same actions does it? Also sorcery was not 
limited to the Bon, there were plenty of other sanctioned activity in the 
history of the political struggles of the various Orders and the non-buddhist 
shamans.
As I indicated the present Dalai Lama is a direct Sponsor of the Bon, he 
also has written the foreword in books on Bon Dzogchen. do you think he has 
gone insane? let's be honest, blavatskys' S.D. is vast, who has personally 
investigated all pertinent available information, literature, texts, Sutra's, 
rituals, Dieties, Guardians, Dakini's, Monasterys, Kadampa, Kagyu, Sakya, Dolnangpa, 
Gelugpa, Karmapa, and all Orders of Tibet including the Shamans in such depth 
that all that in their possesion is known in fullness? Today the diaspora of 
Tibetan Religionists is vast and the Dalai Lama through the government in 
exile sponsors all of them, you can read this onlline ands ee for yourself. I 
don't advocate magic, sorcery or any other negative practice or support the same 
in any form but what is there today is not the same as was present in 1891. The 
world has changed in major ways and many reformations have taken place in all 
strata. It is up to Theosophists as well as common every day people to try to 
assess the scene periodically and integrate change. This is especially 
productive if new knowledge of importance has appeared where once one had to make 
terribly difficult travel under onnerous conditions and in danger to receive it 
and today all that is required of effective search onlline to update.

Best regards,
John



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