Several references to the relation\nbetween the two main Theosophical Mahatmas and the then Panchen Lama are found\nscattered in the Theosophical writings. Some years ago, Daniel Caldwell\ncollected these and sent them to a few friends. The quotations given below are\ntaken from this (adding one by Boris de Zirkoff). Note that the Panchen Lama\nwas usually referred to in these writings as the Teshu Lama, i.e., the Tashi\nLama, after his monastery at Shigatse, Tashi-lhunpo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere is beyond the Himalayas a nucleus of\nthese Adepts, of various nationalities, and the Teshu Lama knows them, and they\nact together, and some of them are with him and yet remain unknown in\ntheir true character even to the average lamas\u2014who are ignorant fools mostly. My Master [Morya] and KH [Koot Hoomi] and\nseveral others I know personally are there, coming and going, and they\nare all in communication with Adepts in Egypt and Syria, and even in Europe.\u201d (H.\nP. Blavatsky, letter to Franz Hartmann, 1886, published in The Path<\/em>, March 1896, p. 370)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c.\n. . my venerated GURU DEVA [Koot Hoomi] who holds a well-known public office in\nTibet, under the TESHU LAMA.\u201d (Damodar K. Mavalankar, D\u00e2modar and the Pioneers of the Theosophical Movement<\/em>, compiled and\nannotated by Sven Eek, 1965, p. 340)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c.\n. . the Tashi Lama (whose Master of Ceremonies one of our own revered Mahatmas\nis).\u201d (Henry Steel Olcott, Old Diary\nLeaves<\/em>, Fourth Series, p. 6)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cKoot\nHoomi . . . is the relic-bearer to the Teshu-Lama, an office in Thibet\nresembling that\u2014say of Cardinal-Vicar, in the Roman Catholic Church. . . .\u201d (draft\ncopy of the \u201cFirst Report\u201d of the Society for Psychical Research on H. P.\nBlavatsky, October 1884, p. 16)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMaster\nM.: Was (or is) a high official with the Teshu Lama in Tibet, a hutuhtu, or \u2018bearer\n(or carrier) of sacred things,\u2019 in the sense of relics. So says Vera P.\nZhelihovsky [Blavatsky\u2019s sister], who tells of having heard this from HPB [H.\nP. Blavatsky] many times. See her words in Russkoy\nObozreniye<\/em>, VI, Nov., 1891, p. 292, footnote.\u201d (Boris de Zirkoff, Blavatskaiana, Historical Index<\/em>, vol. 3)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nnearest thing to the office described above would probably be the ch\u00f6p\u00f6n (mchod dpon<\/em>), \u201chead\/chief\/master\/overseer\nof offerings\/worship\/ceremonies\/religious services,\u201d who could thus be called\nthe master of ceremonies. Daniel Caldwell went on to note this passage from the\nMahatma Letters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn about a week\u2014new\nreligious ceremonies, new glittering bubbles to amuse the babes with, and once\nmore I will be busy night and day, morning, noon, and evening.\u201d (The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett<\/em>,\nletter #16, 2nd edition, p. 116; 3rd edition, p. 113; chronological edition\nletter #68, p. 203)<\/p>\n\n\n\n This\nletter is undated. Daniel determined, by way of a reference in this letter\nsaying \u201cOlcott is on his way to Lanka,\u201d that it was probably written June 27 or\n28, 1882, since Olcott left Bombay for Sri Lanka on June 27 and arrived in\nColombo on June 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Daniel\nthen found a reference to a major ceremony that was held at Tashi-lhunpo\nstarting on June 30, 1882. It is from Tibetan\nBuddhism: With Its Mystic Cults, Symbolism and Mythology, and in Its Relation\nto Indian Buddhism<\/em>, by L. Austine Waddell, 1895, p. 508:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDuring\nthis feast many of the monks encamp in tents, and colossal pictures are\ndisplayed. Thus at Tashi-lhunpo the pictures are hung from the great tower\nnamed Kiku. At this festival, held there on June 30th, 1882, L\u0101ma Ugyen Gyats\u2019o\ninforms us, a great picture of Dipa\u1e41kara Buddha was displayed about a hundred\nfeet long, in substitution for pictures of the previous days. Next day it was\nreplaced by one of \u1e62\u0101kya Muni and the past Buddhas, and the following day by\none of Maitreya (Jam-pa).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is certainly suggestive of the Mahatma K.H. being there and acting as master of ceremonies. Of course, the officials in the Panchen Lama\u2019s court were all Tibetans, while the Mahatma K.H. is said to be an Indian, specifically a Kashmiri. More on this in another post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Several references to the relation between the two main Theosophical Mahatmas and the then Panchen Lama are found scattered in the Theosophical writings. Some years ago, Daniel Caldwell collected these and sent them to a few friends. The quotations given below are taken from this (adding one by Boris de Zirkoff). 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