The Voice of the Silence explained
The Voice of the Silence is a book by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. It was written in Fontainebleau and first published in 1889.[1] According to Blavatsky, it is a translation of fragments from a sacred book she encountered during her studies in the East, called "The Book of the Golden Precepts".
Contents
The book is formed of three parts:
- The Voice of the Silence
- The Two Paths
- The Seven Portals
Reception
A reviewer for D. T. Suzuki's Eastern Buddhist Society commented: "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..."[2] In the journal of the Buddhist Society, Suzuki commented: "here is the real Mahayana Buddhism".[3]
The 14th Dalai Lama wrote the preface for the centennial edition by Concord Grove Press.[4]
See also
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: The Voice of the Silence by H.P. Blavatsky: Online and Printed Sources. blavatskyarchives.com.
- The Real H. P. Blavatsky, a Study in Theosophy and a Memoir of a Great Soul, by William Kingslands (review) . July 1931 . Suzuki . D. T. Suzuki . Daisetz Teitaro . Suzuki . Beatrice Lane . The Eastern Buddhist . Old Series . 5 . 4 . 377 .
- The Middle Way . . August 1965 . 40 . 2 . 90.
- Book: Gyatso . Tenzin . 14th Dalai Lama . Foreword: The Boddhisattva Path . Blavatsky . H. P. . The Voice of the Silence . 1989 . Concord Grove Press . Oxford . 9780886950460 . Centenary . https://theosophy.wiki/en/Tenzin_Gyatso,_the_XIV_Dalai_Lama#/media/File:VOS_Foreword_by_Dalai_Lama.jpg . theosophy.wiki. 2018-09-04.