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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
> 
> Alaya <lalaya7@y...> 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
> > 
> > 
> > --- 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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> Erica Letzerich .'.
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