isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)

“Numerous are the Buddhists and Lamaic saints who have been renowned for the unsurpassed sanctity of their lives and their “miracles”. So Tissu, the Emperor's spiritual teacher, who consecrated Kublan-Khan, the Nadir Shah, was known far and wide as much for the extreme holiness of his life as for the many wonders he wrought. But [...]

isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)

“Both in Western and Eastern Tibet, as in every other place where Buddhism predominates, there are two distinct religions, the same as it is in Brahmanism – the secret philosophy and the popular religion. The former is that of the followers of the doctrine of the sect of the Sutrantika. They closely adhere to the [...]

isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)

"In the convent of Great Kouren, and in one situated upon the Holy Mountain (Bhoute Oula) there are said to be several such sepulchres, which have been respected by all the conquering hordes that have swept through those countries. Abbe Huc heard that such exist, but did not see one, strangers of all kinds being [...]

isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)

“A singular account of the personal interview of an English ambassador in 1783, with a reincarnated Buddha - barely mentioned in volume 1, an infant of eighteen months old at that time, is given in the Asiatic Journal from the narrative of an eyewitness himself, Mr. Turner, the author of the Embassy to Tibet. The [...]

isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)

“Jacolliot must indeed have been stupefied by wonders, for he says: “We have seen things such as one does not describe for fear of making his readers doubt his intelligence... but still we have seen them. And truly one comprehends how, in presence of such facts, the ancient world believed... in possessions of the Devil [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)

“In the general spoliation of Buddhism to make up the new Christian religion, it was not to be expected that so peerless a character as Gautama-Buddha would be left unappropriated. It was but natural that after taking his legendary history to fill out the blanks left in the fictitious story of Jesus, after using what [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)

"A Buddhist missionary, even in free-thinking America, would daily risk being mobbed, but this does not at all prevent missionaries from abusing the religion of the Brahmans, Lamas, and Bonzes, publicly to their teeth; and the latter are not always at liberty to answer them. This is termed diffusing the beneficent light of Christianity and [...]