Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00716)

Erica, not trying to make the conversation longer
but i just saw a previous post of yours.
very interesting you spent 6 month in nepal
you ask about the gelugpa monasteries 
well... in khatmandu you have the monastery connected to lama yeshe, 
and you also have Dagom Labrang and Pabonkha Labrang - two important 
teachers of the gelugpa school

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Erica Letzerich <eletzerich@y...> 
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. 
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> 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?
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> Erica
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> 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).
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> Yungdrung Bon: The founder of Bon and His Teachings
> http://www.yungdrung-bon.net/page/anglais/A-histoire/A-
HISTOIRE1_BON.html
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