Theos-Talk Archives (September 2000 Message tt00020)

Katrina
          do not know if this will be any help but I offer it-In "Buddhism 
and the
          Science of Life" 2nd edition 1928 Peking by Alice Leighton Cleather 
         between pages 70 & 71  is found the representation of the Seal and
         "Gurada Crest" of the Tashi Lama of Tibet. As the explanation 
relates 
         to the  "AUM" I relate here is printed on the onion sheet itself.

             "The Tashi Lama's Gurada emblem and seal are reproduced by 
         permission from a letter and a document in our possession. The
         monogram on both is the All Powerful Ten (Tib. Nam-c' u-van-dan),
         the letters being  O,U,H,K,S,M,L,V,R,Y. The Seal bears on either 
         side of it in Indian characters the word Mangalam (Tibetan Bkra-
         shis, pr. Tashi) meaning Blessing or Benediction. The Chinese 
         characters on either side of the Garuda's tail stand for "Symbol
        of Panchen Rimpoche". This symbolic creature half-man, half-bird,
        is the Kyang or Phoenix of Tibetan Mythology, the emblem of cyclic
        and periodic time, and especially of the Maha Kalpa. It is the Great 
Bird
       of the mystic treatiseswhich is "the AUM throughout eternal ages" 
       (Voice of the Silence p. 5), and is also the vehical of Vishnu and 
Krishna
       in the Hindu mythology. Here it represents Panchen Rimpoche' as the 
       incarnation of the Dhyani Buddha Amitabha, while the serpent in it's
       beak is the symbol of an Initiate (Naga) . The Garuda Yantra Charm
      is highly esteemed in Tibet , where it is also known as nam-K'ah-ldin
      or "Sky-Soarer" and in Chinese as Lei-Gung or Genie of Thunder
      who is the agent of Karmic vengence (Nemesis) on criminals. The 
      American Indian Thunderbird is obviously the same symbol."

      end quotation 

     Alice Leighton Cleather was jioned in this work by the commentary
     of Basil Crump.
     They were both menebrs of the Peking Lodge of Theosophy.

     John    

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