Re: Theos-World Introduction
Apr 03, 2005 01:53 PM
by Bart Lidofsky
Drpsionic@aol.com wrote:
Chuck the Dugpa
From THE THEOSOPHICAL GLOSSARY....
Dugpas (Tib.). Lit., “Red Caps,” a sect in Tibet. Before the advent of
Tsong-ka-pa in the fourteenth century, the Tibetans, whose Buddhism had
deteriorated and been dreadfully adulterated with the tenets of the old
Bhon religion,--were all Dugpas. From that century, however, and after
the rigid laws imposed upon the Gelukpas (yellow caps) and the general
reform and purification of Buddhism (or Lamaism), the Dugpas have given
themselves over more than ever to sorcery, immorality, and drunkenness.
Since then the word Dugpa has become a synonym of “sorcerer”, “adept of
black magic” and everything vile. There are few, if any, Dugpas in
Eastern Tibet, but they congregate in Bhutan, Sikkim, and the
borderlands generally. Europeans not being permitted to penetrate
further than those borders, the Orientalists never having studied
Buddho-Lamaism in Tibet proper, but judging of it on hearsay and front
what Cosmo di Köros, Schlagintweit, and a few others have learnt of it
from Dugpas, confuse both religions and bring them under one head. They
thus give out to the public pure Dugpaism instead of Buddho-Lamaism In
short Northern Buddhism in its purified, metaphysical form is almost
entirely unknown.
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