Comments on: Remembering Blavatsky – White Lotusday

By: katinka - spiritual

katinka - spiritual — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:39:17 +0000

Thanks

By: Teresa Silverthorn

Teresa Silverthorn — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:07:40 +0000

Hi there,

I added your link to my site. Theosophy is something I’ve always admired and respected. It should be more widespread, in my opinion. If more people knew about it, they would probably realize its value. If all the world were more theosophical, I believe it would be a much better place…

By: katinka - spiritual

katinka - spiritual — Sun, 10 May 2009 09:58:07 +0000

Oh and Blavatsky and Olcott as Buddhists here:

http://www.katinkahesselink.net/his/pansil.html

By: katinka - spiritual

katinka - spiritual — Sun, 10 May 2009 09:57:10 +0000

Well – mostly I’m not into observing religious holidays. I haven’t blogged about Christmas, Easter or Mother’s day – so why make an exception for Wesak? But White Lotusday is different – since I do celebrate that (tomorrow in The Hague – private lodge meeting). But yes, Blavatsky was more avowedly a Buddhist than anything else other than theosophy. She has been accused of not being Buddhist enough by some scholars, but as she did take Pansil, she can be said to be MORE Buddhist than many ‘Western Buddhists’ these days…

http://www.katinkahesselink.net/tibet/panchasila.html

By: David Melik

David Melik — Sun, 10 May 2009 07:45:24 +0000

I see you said on theosophy.net that Wesak does not always happen close to WLD. Still, it is interesting when it does… since HPB took Buddhist refuge/vows and may have focused on it the most… or at least several later Theosophists put an emphasis on Buddhism in their systems of reasoning & explanation about Theosophy.

By: David Melik

David Melik — Sun, 10 May 2009 07:42:10 +0000

Thanks for the info… I was able to observe it this year, though I have no copy of _The Light of Asia_, so I am glad you posted part of it. It would have been nice to post about Wesak the day after White Lotus Day (or even on it as a 2-day event,) but I suppose like Easter, the day Buddha entered Nirvana is a bit more important.

By: TE Locke

TE Locke — Sat, 09 May 2009 05:07:26 +0000

Thank you