Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00095)

stevestubbs wrote:
> The truth is, the Dugpas are not red hats (Nyingmas) at all but a 
> subsect of the kargyu, also known as the WHITE LINEAGE or White 
> Brotherhood if you will. They flourished in Bhutan and not Tibet and 
> were noted for the number of saints they produced. There is a book 
> available which contains a very extensive treatment of their history, 
> but I cannot remember the name of it offhand. As for Bhutan it is 
> one of the world's most civilized countries. How Blavatsky got this 
> one so wrong I cannot imagine.
Might not have been Blavatsky; the Theosophical Glossary was not 
complete when she died.

Bart