Re: Theos-World Tzon-kha-pa GyalugpasYellow caps
Feb 23, 2005 03:34 PM
by christinaleestemaker
--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Erica Letzerich <eletzerich@y...>
wrote:
Hi Erica,
I am not confused that you know that, but I have read in the secret
doctrine and understand wrong.I thought it was a book; so I know now
it is not.Thank You and by the way you have a nice style of writing
GELUK PA means in Dutch: Geluk = Happy Pa = father
Christina
Dear Cris,
>
> Thank you but I knwo who is Tson-Ka-Pa you were confuse on that.
>
> Erica
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> Alaya <lalaya7@y...> wrote:
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> you can see a short biography of him here
>
http://www.berzinarchives.com/bioghaphies/short_biography_lama_tsongkh
> apa.html
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> --- 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
> >
> >
> > --- 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 earth 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
> >
> >
> >
> > >
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