Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00709)

you can see a short biography of him here 
http://www.berzinarchives.com/bioghaphies/short_biography_lama_tsongkh
apa.html

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Erica Letzerich <eletzerich@y...> 
wrote:
> Dear Cris,
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> Thank you for your kind reply :).
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> 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. 
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> 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. 
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> Erica
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> --- 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)
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> 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.
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> ** 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. 
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> In Tzon-kha-pa
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> 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)
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> 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.**
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> 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
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> > 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
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> >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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