Theos-Talk Archives (November 1999 Message tl00051)

Nov 6th

Dear Friend:

Please do not feel that I am being curt or neglectful of your
excellent scholarship, but when you consider the whole of what
Mme. Blavatsky presented, then this is only a very small part of
a philosophy that has the whole world as a base and further, is
also a continuation of the ancient wisdom of the remote past,
fragments of which have come down to us in such MSS and other
relics as are available.

Theosophy is not a patch work of material collected and somehow
made into a "collage," or, the semblance of a philosophy, or even
an attempt of filling some gaps in the pre-history of the ancient
world.  It is a part of the records of the work of an ancient
school of Adepts and their pupils and is presented as such.
Therefore such variances as you notice are probably more in the
nature of corroboration than anything else.  If you have a copy
of THE SECRET DOCTRINE (Original Edition) you will find in vol.
1, pp 272-3 a brief account of the "ancient source" of Theosophy.

Many thanks for your most interesting contributions.

With best wishes,

Dallas

Dallas
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-----Original Message-----
> From: Hazarapet@aol.com [mailto:Hazarapet@aol.com]
> Date: Saturday, November 06, 1999 2:17 PM
> Subject: Re: Dyzan, Dzan, chan and TarimPS

I forgot two other bits of evidence.

Item One.  As mentioned before, both
HPB's Stanzas of Dyzan and the
probable section of the larger and
esoteric Kanjur that both the Bon
and Nyingmapas have, in contrast
to the other Tibetan Buddhist schools,
has a Motherly Buddha or Mother as
the Supreme Source.  The Dzog chen
texts recovered from Tun huang also
have this motif.

Item Two: an Iranian fragment of a
Dzog chen text from this region
is called "zan-akasih."  Regionally,
like D-zog, c-han, T-sar, or c-zar, the
first letter is an unvoiced way of pronouncing
the next letter hard.  So, hard zog chen, hard zar.
Zan-akasih, with pronouncement marks, since it
is a hard z, would be dzan-akasih.  Literally, zan-
akasih means the "book and commentary."

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