The Voice of the Silence

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The Voice of the Silence presented by Blavatsky to Leo Tolstoy

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

Contents

The book is formed of three parts:

  1. The Voice of the Silence
  2. The Two Paths
  3. 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

References

  1. ↑ "The Voice of the Silence by H.P. Blavatsky: Online and Printed Sources". blavatskyarchives.com.
  2. ↑ Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro; Suzuki, Beatrice Lane, eds. (July 1931). "The Real H. P. Blavatsky, a Study in Theosophy and a Memoir of a Great Soul, by William Kingslands (review)". The Eastern Buddhist. Old Series. 5 (4): 377.
  3. ↑ The Middle Way. 40 (2). The Buddhist Society: 90. August 1965.{{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)[ full citation needed ]
  4. ↑ Gyatso, Tenzin (1989). "Foreword: The Boddhisattva Path". The Voice of the Silence. By Blavatsky, H. P. (Centenary ed.). Oxford: Concord Grove Press. ISBN   9780886950460 . Retrieved 2018-09-04– via theosophy.wiki.
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