Theos-Talk Archives (February 2007 Message tt00219)

Cleather Edition of Voice 


   Cleather's "Peking Edition" of 
"The Voice of the Silence" got the 
endorsement of the then Tashi Lama - 
which is good verification of its having 
a Buddhist source.  The Tashi lama wrote 
a few lines for the front of the book:


Frontispiece.  The Path of Liberation

  The Tibetan sentences, reproduced in 
facsimile as a frontispiece, were written 
by H.H. The Tashi Lama with his own 
hand specially for this reprint.  They 
were sent at a time when he was on a 
journey to Inner Mongolia, and constantly 
occupied in receiving Mongolian Princes, 
Lamas, and thousands of pilgrims,  They 
are written in the "characters with heads" 
(Tib. Yi-ge U-jen: Sk. Matra) used for 
writing religious and other important 
matter, and for printing.  The "headless 
characters" or current scripts 
(Tib. Yi-ge U-me) are used in three styles:  
one a large carefully formed hand for 
copying;  another, smaller and more 
cursive, for letter writing;  and a 
third which resembles shorthand and is 
used for all purposes where speed and 
brevity are required. (See C.D. 910, 
911, 1132)  The Tashi Lama also uses a 
private script, unlike Tibetan, which 
is probably one of the cyphers of Senzar 
(See n. 4 p. 100).  A free rendering of 
the sentences in English will be somewhat 
as follows: -


ALL BEINGS DESIRE LIBERATION FROM MISERY


SEEK, THEREFORE, FOR THE CAUSES OF MISERY AND EXPUNGE
THEM


BY ENTERING ON THE PATH LIBERATION FROM MISERY IS
ATTAINED


EXHORT, THEN, ALL BEINGS TO ENTER THE PATH


               - from "Theosophical Notes," August,
1974, p. 74


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