Theos-Talk Archives (June 2005 Message tt00520)

Thanks, Daniel , for making available this interesting lecture.

There is one paragraph on p. 3 which surprises me:

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"Reigle ( the name rhymes with legal eagle !) found in 1981 that the term " Books of Kiute"
used by HPB appeared in a book by C.R. Markham " 2nd edition 1879, called "
Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet". The reference was in an appendix
by Horace Della Penna called in turn " Brief Account of the Kingdom of Tibet". The
Books of Kiu-Te are in the Tibetan Buddhist canon, they are the Tibetan Buddhist
Tantras. Later it transpired that Henk Spierenburg had published the same identification
of the Books of Kie-Te through the Dutch Theosophical Society in 1975, but this had not
become known in the English-speaking world. Spierenburg had begun reading the books
mentioned by HPB, with a view to collecting together her references to such traditions as
Buddhism, the Vedas and the New Testament (This is now a major series, invaluable to
students.). He had therefore read Markham and Della Penna, and realised that this book
was the source of HPB's term " Kiu-Te" . It would appear that no one had done this
before Spierenburg, although a follow-up of HPB's references would have led to it"
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No one?
It seems that in Point Loma under the leadership of Katherine Tingley and Gottfried de Purucker the Kiu-Te was known (which BTW is not much surprising as the occult succession to HPB is Tibetan tulku practice and GdeP was a Tibetan tulku, walking-in the body of a dead seven-year old boy).

F.e. GdeP's chela and Sanskrit student Geoffrey Barborka published at Point Loma Publications in 1972 - three years before Spierenburg came into the picture - his "Glossary of Sanskrit Terms", see http://www.wisdomtraditions.com/PLPCatFr.html.

On p. 28 you can find Barborka's definition of the Tibetan term Dzyan:
"The Book of Dzyan... belongs to the series known as the Kiu-Ti."

So, at least in the Blavatsky-Point Loma tradition this Tibetan connections was never forgotten.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D. Caldwell" <danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com>
To: <danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 4:57 PM
Subject: Theos-World "Madame Blavatsky, Buddhism and Tibet" by Leslie Price


Many students of Theosophy and Madame Blavatsky
will find the following paper quite interesting:

"Madame Blavatsky, Buddhism and Tibet"
by Leslie Price

See:

http://blavatskyarchives.com/price.pdf

Daniel H. Caldwell
Blavatsky Study Center
http://hpb.cc




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