To: alt.magick
From: VARIOUS
Subject: Re: Book of Dyzan. Where??
Date: 49941008
Quoting: > 3ctl1@qlink.queensu.ca (Leaman C Troy) 

> Hi I was wondering if any of you Theosophical or Vedic scholars could 
> point me in the direction of a e-text of the Book of Dyzan (that might 
> not be the correct spelling..could be Disan or Dizan...). This book is 
> supposedly an very old Hindu text which Mdm Blavatsky had some part in 
> getting translated. I heard there was a copy at the slopoke board but I 
> couldn't find it. your help would be appreciated.

The Stanzas of Dzyan were allegedly extracts from a book written in
Senzar (the Book of Kiu-te), a lanugage preceding Sanskrit, currently
unknown to modern philologists. The Stanzas first appeared publicly in
translation in Blavatsky's "Secret Doctrine".  Recent investigations of
hitherto untranslated Tibetan Buddhist works seem to suggest the Books
of Kui-te are to be found (in Tibetan) in Tibetan Gelugpa monasteries,
where they are known today as the Kanjur. (See Tibetologist David
Reigle's booklet "The Books of Kiu-te", Wizards Bookshelf, San Diego,
CA, 1983)

I am not aware of where this can be publicly accessed electronically,
although all the "Secret Doctrine" has been types onto disk.  You could
try the theos-l mailing list where some of the participants might be
able to give you a lead.

astrea@actrix.co.at (Astrea)
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Blavatsky claimed that it was in a secret language called
Senzar, and her "translations" therefrom were allegedly only a
small part of the whole.  The Secret Doctrine contains all that
she published.  As for their real origin, no one knows for
sure.  Gershom Scholem identified the stanzas with a
kabbalistic source, but on rather slim evidence apparently.
David Reigle, a student of Tibetan, identifies the source as
Vajrayana texts, but solely on the basis of a claim by HPB
rather than on internal evidence.  My research indicates that
she did gain access to little-known manuscripts from Tibet
through the Bengali explorer Sarat Chandra Das, so this may
have included the source of the Stanzas.

pjohnson@leo.vsla.edu (K. Paul Johnson)
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