Re: Theos-World Tzon-kha-pa GyalugpasYellow caps
Feb 23, 2005 07:56 AM
by Erica Letzerich
Dear Cris,
Thank you but I knwo who is Tson-Ka-Pa you were confuse on that.
Erica
Alaya <lalaya7@yahoo.com.br> wrote:
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
wrote:
> 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
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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)
>
> 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.**
>
> 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
> >
> >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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