Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00708)

Dear Cris,

Thank you for your kind reply :).

Tson-Ka-Pa is regarded as the great reformer of the Tibetan Buddhism. The following quote from the Theosophical Glossary may help you to understand better. 

Tsong-kha-pa (Tibetan) "The man from Tsong-kha," a district in Amdo -- his personal name was Blo bzang grags pa (Lo-zang Dag-pa); a great teacher and reformer of Tibetan Buddhism (1357-1419), founder of the Gelukpa school. 

Erica


--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Alaya" wrote
Erica, this is what my investigation of HPB in the secret doctrine 
gives.Maybe you can find more in her other writitngs
(the Collected( I have not yet) or the esoteric budhhism)

First I thought that the Tzon-kha-pa was a book; but through your 
question I look over and see, maybe that is the name of the place or 
of the monestry you are looking for.


** The first and greatest Reformer who founded the "Yellow-Caps," 
Gyalugpas. He was born in the year 1355 A.D. in Amdo, and was the 
Avatar of Amitabha, the celestial name of Gautama Buddha. 

In Tzon-kha-pa




These Dhyani Buddhas "are, so to speak, the eternal prototypes of the 
Buddhas who appear on this earth, each of whom has his particular 
divine prototype." Thus, for instance, Amitabha was the inner "God" 
or particular "Dhyani-Buddha of Gautama Sakyamuni, manifesting 
through him whenever this great Soul incarnates on earh as He did in 
Tzon-kha-pa," the 14th-century Tibetan reformer. (S.D., I, 108)


http://www.sacred-texts.com/the/sd/sd1-1-06.htm
As the reader is supposed not to be acquainted with the Dhyani-
Buddhas, it is as well to say at once that, according to the 
Orientalists, there are five Dhyanis who are the "celestial" Buddhas, 
of whom the human Buddhas are the manifestations in the world of form 
and matter. Esoterically, however, the Dhyani-Buddhas are seven, of 
whom five only have hitherto manifested,* and two are to come in the 
sixth and seventh Root-races. They are, so to speak, the eternal 
prototypes of the Buddhas who appear on this earth, each of whom has 
his particular divine prototype. So, for instance, Amitabha is the 
Dhyani-Buddha of Gautama Sakyamuni, manifesting through him whenever 
this great Soul incarnates on earth as He did in Tzon-kha-pa.**

As the synthesis of the seven Dhyani-Buddhas, Avalokiteswara was the 
first Buddha (the Logos), so Amitabha is the inner "God" of Gautama, 
who, in China, is called Amita(-Buddha). They are, as Mr. Rhys Davids 
Maybe we find more,
greetings Christina




> Erica, maybe he gelugpa center in Nepal was 
something 'secret/private'
> I don't know
> I think the information must be conected to the time HPB was writing
> three great friends of mine spent a month in Nepal last year, and 
the 
> stayed in a gelugpa monastery, and visited the others, and as far 
as 
> i know... there's nothing much there. They had conversations with 
the 
> heads of the monasteries...
> when HPB was writing the situation ofbudhism was quite different
> 
>I am looking to know what possible would 
> > be the only gelugpa center in Nepal, that H.P.B. mentions. I have 
> > contact with may Buddhists and none of them have the slightest 
idea 
> > of which center Blavatsky was speaking about. After the invasion 
of 
> > China in Tibet, much more centers were created in Nepal and it is 
> > really a great puzzle there.
> > 
> > Erica 
> > 
> > > 
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