Theos-Talk Archives (February 2005 Message tt00658)

Blavatsky mentions that the Bon practices are opposite to the 
Gelugpas:

"It was only after a lama coming to them from Tibet in the tenth 
century had converted them from the old Buddhist faith—so strongly 
mixed up with the Bon practices of the aborigines—into the Shammar 
sect, that, in opposition to the reformed "Gelukpas," "
H.P.B. Reincarnations on Tibet

Erica

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Konstantin Zaitzev" 
<kay_ziatz@y...> wrote:
> 
> Dear John, thank you for the links.
> 
> > I woyuld very much like to read what you have about Kalzan
> > Rinpoche. What year was it that he searched, and what
> > particular evidence did he have that he considered important
> > enough to justify the effort?
> 
> I have found it. It was in 1996 in theos-l. I participated then in 
> that
> list but later had to unsubscribe because I hadn't permanent
> Internet access.
> 
> http://theos-l.com/archives/199606/tl00480.html
> 
> > are you aware that Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche also took Bon
> Initiation?
> 
> Yes, and I see nothing bad in it. We could read bad things about
> Bonpo, but I think that it's prabably a later distortion of the
> tradition, as sometimes happens with Buddhism too.
> 
> > Wonders of the natural Mind - Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
> > http://www.snowlionpub.com/chapters/wonami.htm
> 
> It is an excellent book. We also have it in Russian, and I
> recommend to every theosophist as a good source about Bon
> tradition.
> 
> > I earlier asked if you were aware of Pytor Gariaev's research
> > titled "DNA-wave Biocomputer"
> 
> No.