The Lam-Rim of Tsong-Khapa and Theosophy

 Dated May 2025.

Seed based meditations on 'The Lam-Rim of Tsong Khapa and Theosophy'

This year's Vaishakh (Wesak) Purnima we will be meditating in a Tushita Meditation Center (A Himalayan Mahayana Gelugpa Monastery) located near The Fourteenth Dalai Lama's Kalachakra Temple and his residence. We will be taking "Introduction to (Mahayana Lam-Rim) Buddhism "course and two full days of meditation ending on the Viashak 12 May. Last Vaishak I had meditated with Seven Rays University Group and I recognize a few of my inner group Brothers (Ray 2 and 3) there on the physical plane. This year I am meditating remotely with Cyrus Ryan's group (Ray 7) for all are One with the Hierarchy.

 

Here is a summary of the relationship between exoteric tradition/lineage of Tsong-Khapa (The Dalai and Panchen Lamas) and the Trans-Himalayan Brotherhood as I have understood in my meditations so far -

  

"The Secret Doctrine and A Treatise on Cosmic Fire" are translated from the Commentaries upon the secret esoteric folios of Kiu-te that are the real Sutras (threads) and tantras (weaving of these threads) in possession of the Trans-Himalayan Brotherhood. 

Therefore we can say that the Modern Theosophical Movement's cyclic expression of 1875 and it's continuity in 1925 through works of Tibetan Master Djwal Khul and Alice Bailey was an impulse that originated from Tsong Khapa and his Lam-Rim (stages on the path to enligthenment of Buddha) teachings. 

There are around 33 references to the folios of Kiu-te and the Book of Dzyan in the writings of H.P.B. including The Secret Doctrine, The Key to Theosophy, The HPB Letters to A.P. Sinnet, The Mahatmas Letters to A.P. Sinnet, The Voice of Silence  Articles in Journals such as Blavatsky Collected Writings (Vol 14).

“As a supplement to the Commentaries there are many secret folios on the lives of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and among these there is one on Prince Gautama and another on His reincarnation in Tsong-Kha-pa. This great Tibetan Reformer of the fourteenth century, said to be a direct incarnation of Amita Buddha, is the founder of the Secret School near Shigatse, attached to the private retreat of the Panchen Lama. It is with Him that began the regular system of Lamaic incarnations of Buddhas.” “The records preserved in the Gon-pa, the chief Lamasery of Tashilhumpo, show that Sang-gyas [i.e. the Tibetan name for Buddha] left the regions of the ‘Western Paradise’ to incarnate Himself in Tsong-Kha-pa, in consequence of the great degradation into which His secret doctrines had fallen.” - Reincarnations in Tibet by H. P. B.

H. P. B. writes on Page 422 of Blavatsky Collected Writings, Vol XIV  "THE SECRET BOOKS OF “LAM-RIM” AND DZYAN"

"The Book of Dzyan – from the Sanskrit word “Dhyana” (mystic meditation) – is the first volume of the Commentaries upon the seven secret folios of Kiu-te, and a Glossary of the public works of the same name. Thirty five volumes of Kiu-te for exoteric purposes and the use of the laymen may be found in the possession of the Tibetan Gelugpa Lamas, in the library of any monastery; and also fourteen books of Commentaries and Annotations on the same by the initiated Teachers.

Strictly speaking, those thirty-five books ought to be termed “The Popularised Version” of the Secret Doctrine, full of myths, blinds, and errors; the fourteen volumes of Commentaries, on the other hand – with their translations, annotations, and an ample glossary of Occult terms, worked out from one small archaic folio, the Book of the Secret Wisdom of the World – contain a digest of all the Occult Sciences. These, it appears, are kept secret and apart, in the charge of the Teshu-Lama of Shigatse. The Books of Kiu-te are comparatively modern, having been edited within the last millennium, whereas, the earliest volumes of the Commentaries are of untold antiquity, some fragments of the original cylinders having been preserved. With the exception that they explain and correct some of the too fabulous, and to every appearance, grossly-exaggerated accounts in the Books of Kiu-te – properly so-called – the Commentaries have little to do with these. They stand in relation to them as the Chaldaeo-Jewish Kabalah stands to the Mosaic Books..."

A basic book "The Voice of the Silence by H. P. Blavatsky was reviewed by a Zen Buddhist Scholar and the current Dalai Lama saying -

"I believe that this book has strongly influenced many sincere seekers and aspirants to the wisdom and compassion of the Bodhisattva Path."

- H.H. The Fourteenth Dalai Lama.

"Undoubtedly Madame Blavatsky had in some way been initiated into the deeper side of Mahayana teaching and then gave out what she deemed wise to the Western world... Here is the real Mahayana Buddhism." 

- Dr. D. T. Suzuki.