tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post1302182227077617557..comments2024-03-22T14:47:42.501+02:00Comments on Tibeto-logic: Who Was That White Lama?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-61983164487728813062019-08-13T23:19:19.376+03:002019-08-13T23:19:19.376+03:00I just came across writing and a youtube video tha...I just came across writing and a youtube video that says the count of St. Germain was the white lama. Not sure if you're familiar with the stories surrounding this man but many of them sound like the actions of a Tibetan Buddhist despite the fact he lived in Europe for many many years.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12419167593916753888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-71899110101042921952017-01-30T10:42:32.896+02:002017-01-30T10:42:32.896+02:00Someone on an internet discussion link suggested t...Someone on an internet discussion link suggested that the re-Tibetanization of Khe-lang is an easy matter. It's just Tibetan Gelong (Dge-slong), the word for fully ordained monk. I'm intrigued at the possibility, but I'm not sure of it. She seems to have intended something much more arcane. But then that other explanation supplied in the blog is sounding a little too far stretched, so another solution would be welcome.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10453904366382251766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-11219014457386329192013-02-27T01:34:28.221+02:002013-02-27T01:34:28.221+02:00Dear Dan, you ask "Who might that very knowle...Dear Dan, you ask "Who might that very knowledgeable Buddhist Englishman, who came to Shigatsé in the early part of the 19th century, have been? I haven't the slightest idea."<br /><br />It certainly wasn't Theos Bernard, as the time frame is all wrong, plus Bernard was heavily into Hatha Yoga (from what I gather) and Madame Blavatsky's books, as well as the letters from the Masters in Tibet who were behind her and the Theosophical Movement, are all highly critical of Hatha Yoga and any physical Yoga practices, including pranayama - "to which all our Masters are unanimously opposed."<br /><br />Might I suggest that the mysterious white Lama was a Captain Remington, referred to briefly by the Master Koot Hoomi in a letter c.1880 or 1881 which is published in "The Mahatma Letters" by Theosophical University Press:<br /><br />"There is a distinct group or section in our fraternity who attend to our casual and very rare accessions of another race and blood, and who brought across the threshold Captain Remington and two other Englishmen during this century."<br /><br />I've searched on Google at some length but can't find any details about an English Captain Remington visiting Tibet in the 19th century but maybe you might be more successful than me if you decide to pursue this line of enquiry. The white Lama may well be one of the "two other Englishmen" referred to by the Master but equally may be Captain Remington, whoever he was and is.<br /><br />I don't know whether you're familiar with details regarding the Master Koot Hoomi, the Master Morya, and others of the Trans-Himalayan Brotherhood with which Blavatsky was/is associated but I've assembled some of the facts in several articles on my site, particularly "Morya and Kuthumi: Fact not Fiction."<br /><br />I hope this may all be of some interest!<br /><br />Best Wishes,<br />MatthewAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-39392135984579980832012-04-29T23:31:31.285+03:002012-04-29T23:31:31.285+03:00Another announcement! There's a very interest...Another announcement! There's a very interesting piece about Swami Mazziniananda at this page:<br /><br />http://researchforum.santacruzmah.org/viewforum.php?f=19Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10453904366382251766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-55466758974814753332012-04-05T21:41:43.886+03:002012-04-05T21:41:43.886+03:00Well, just to announce that, at last, the book we&...Well, just to announce that, at last, the book we've been waiting for, has arrived!<br /><br />Paul G. Hackett, <em>Theos Bernard, the White Lama</em>, Columbia University Press (New York 2012).<br /><br />I didn't say I've read it yet, but I will. As soon as I finish that book about the Dead Sea scrolls I started.<br /><br />Cheers!Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10453904366382251766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-90459564165226330282011-10-05T12:01:50.547+02:002011-10-05T12:01:50.547+02:00At the Amazon page for Veenhof's book somebody...At the Amazon page for Veenhof's book somebody put up a review accusing the author of plagiarism. This is all very interesting. I wished the reviewer would have given specific examples, otherwise it sounds like it could be a baseless charge. How are supposed to judge in the absence of the evidence?Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10453904366382251766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-80282959280843430292011-08-15T22:04:39.660+03:002011-08-15T22:04:39.660+03:00Hi people, I just finished reading a fairly length...Hi people, I just finished reading a fairly lengthy and interesting book, one very relevant to this particular blog posting, entitled "White Lama: The Life of Tantric Yogi Theos Bernard, Tibet's Lost Emissary to the New World." It's by Douglas Veenhof, and published by Harmony Books, New York. I recommend it, although other and possibly even better books on the subject ought to be coming out before long. It has some interesting photos, but not nearly enough of them, considering how many Bernard took when he was in Tibet. Does anybody know if anything will become of his film footage? Is it too far gone for salvage?Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10453904366382251766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-56808484362367149062010-02-20T13:19:05.178+02:002010-02-20T13:19:05.178+02:00∂ear ∂hyan,
I am hoping you could clarify what yo...∂ear ∂hyan,<br /><br />I am hoping you could clarify what you mean. Are you saying that the White Lama, like Milarepa, became green from excess nettle soup? So there was a transformation of the White Lama into the Green Lama? <br /><br />My trouble is I've read the history of Milarepa quite a few times, in different versions, but I'm not as familiar with the comic books. Are there other things besides food that connect the stories?<br /><br />I apologize for answering questions with questions. I'm happy to hear your questions, and hope you will be happy to hear mine.<br /><br />Yours,<br />∂anDanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10453904366382251766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-29300079364486299582010-02-20T11:31:49.415+02:002010-02-20T11:31:49.415+02:00I've read that, this White Lama, comic book is...I've read that, this White Lama, comic book is inspired in the life of Jetsun Milarepa <br /><br />Cuz the same food was used in the two histories.<br /><br />please just read the history of jetsun milarepa and u will take aware of the similarity.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16329167798796916494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-25239135608450944722009-12-21T18:22:56.840+02:002009-12-21T18:22:56.840+02:00Another note from myself to myself: There is a nic...Another note from myself to myself: There is a nice detailed discussion of Gokar, and the spelling Desideri preferred for it, Mgo-skar, 'Head Star,' in the new book by Trent Pomplun, Jesuit on the Roof of the World: Ippolito Desideri's Mission to Tibet, pages 264-265 and footnote no. 107. It appears likely, as Pomplun argues, that Desideri purposely misspelled the word in order to give it a different etymology. Given he was native to Tuscany, I'm still not sure it makes sense to argue what the chances are he was blond, but Hey, he surely might've been. I didn't see anything describing his own actual hair in Pomplun's otherwise very informative book. Perhaps Desideri didn't appreciate being on the receiving end of an ethnonym that emphasized his hair color?Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10453904366382251766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-49200191504013366442009-06-01T17:28:42.957+03:002009-06-01T17:28:42.957+03:00Just a note here:
The long awaited translation of...Just a note here:<br /><br />The long awaited translation of the Crystal Mirror of Doctrinal Systems by Thuken (Thu'u-bkwan) has just reached me. <br /><br />Here are the biblio details:<br /><br />Thuken Losang Chökyi Nyima, <B>The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems: A Tibetan Study of Asian Religious Thought</B>, tr. by Geshé Lhundub Sopa, ed. by Roger R. Jackson, Wisdom Publications (Boston 2009).<br /><br />on p. 377 it says how Gushri Khan (1582-1654) was only thirteen years old he led his troops into battle with an army of 10,000 Gokars, or 'White Heads,' and defeated them.<br /><br />The footnote no. 1578 attached to the word Gokar reads: "That is, Turks."<br /><br />I really doubt this. I don't think Gokar (Mgo-dkar) has ever been used for any Turkic people. In any case, it doesn't 'simply' mean Turks as the footnote would seem to imply.<br /><br />I think if the Oirats were battling anyone in the year 1595 or so I think it would probably have been Russians. This is about the time of the great Oirat migration that resulted in the Kalmuck Mongol settlement in Russia.<br /><br />Someone ought to look into this more closely. It's also possible that Thuken intended to speak about Gushri Khan's battles against the Kazakhs in 1634-5 CE. The Kazakhs are of course a Turkic people.<br /><br />Anyway, Thuken's is another interesting instance of the use of the ethnonym Gokar.<br /><br />Sorry if it sounds like I'm thinking aloud. I am.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10453904366382251766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-82598905482298966112008-06-25T15:42:00.000+03:002008-06-25T15:42:00.000+03:00Dear Pastor,You mean Theos' uncle the Omnipotent O...Dear Pastor,<BR/><BR/>You mean Theos' uncle the Omnipotent Oom's place? I thought it was turned into a country club, not a Christian school, but have no way of deciding at the moment. Somebody's writing a book (see preceding message), not me. There was a great deal of imaginative "yellow" journalism about what went on there. The newspapers took special delight in passing along titillating gossip in which repressed imaginations ran wild (as they still do today). Dragging prostitutes through sewer drains sounds a little unnecessary, don't you think? The buried elephant story, at least, appears to be well verified. Now I'll let you go care for your flock. Don't you need to be working on your Sunday sermon?<BR/><BR/>Yours,<BR/>DanDanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10453904366382251766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-40013912215470761382008-06-24T22:43:00.000+03:002008-06-24T22:43:00.000+03:00His mansion and compound are on the current site o...His mansion and compound are on the current site of the Nyack College, they have an extensive resources of his life there. They recently bought a second house from the surviving relatives a few years ago. Shuman Administrative building was his mansion with many secret rooms and tunnels. Mosley Hall was a dorm/hotel for his guests. They even have an elephant buried underneath the soccer field. He began to get into trouble when he was caught ferrying prostitutes from NYC into the county through the massive drainage system under Nyack Ny.Pastor Swopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16008265694116146151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32671574.post-14628043664056517872007-08-06T21:22:00.000+03:002007-08-06T21:22:00.000+03:00Yes, Dan, I'm sure Theos Bernard was your "White L...Yes, Dan, I'm sure Theos Bernard was your "White Lama" - American,not English. Surely you've Googled him and see that there's a lot of info. A biography is in progress by one Paul Hacket of Columbia U. I know a great about TB having worked for the woman who was his wife at the time of his trip to Tibet 1936]June Calenderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00265808476144632255noreply@blogger.com