Re: To Paul Johnson
Mar 10, 1995 09:00 AM
by K. Paul Johnson
Dear Jerry--
One weird tidbit unearthed by Joscelyn Godwin relates to HPB's
role as first Western exponent of Mahayana. In New York, she
welcomed a Chinese Buddhist missionary, Wong Chin Foo, and had
a reception for him. He is mentioned in Isis, but Godwin found
the evidence about the reception in a newspaper or Spiritualist
journal.
So as early as her New York phase, HPB was promoting the
Mahayana.
Paul
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