Course XXVII - Teaching 20: Yellow Buddhism

250 years before Jesus Christ, certain Buddhist missionaries went into China to preach the doctrine of the Exalted One.
There they were very kindly admitted, and very soon the new doctrine fused together with old extant religions.
The entire building of the new religion was erected upon the simple doctrine of the Buddha, with its dogmas, its multitude of gods, its ceremonies and monasteries, and the divine Siddhartha at the top of them.
Countless Initiates of Fire disseminated the Buddhist religion, offering to common people esoteric teachings behind veils of symbols and images.
Innumerable monasteries were erected and they were cradle of sages, faithful preservers of ancient texts and scientific books.
Those monks dug their cells in the very heart of the mountain and stayed there like lonely birds, feeding just by prayer and Eternal Wisdom. But a centre was necessary, an inaccessible place to common people, where the chosen could keep zealously the secrets of science and those of material and spiritual life.
Therefore they chose the mountains of Tibet, the most inaccessible and hidden to human eyes. There none would see them and rumors of the world, drums of war or conflictive changes of civilization would not reach them.
So Shambhala, the sublime city of Lhassa, is founded.
Countless monks stayed there preserving the Buddha’s esoteric doctrine in its pristine purity.
In Tibet, a theocratic worship, under religious power, is formed, with its mystical monks devoted to the external worship. But just as everything declines, so spiritual life declined in Tibet and those monks practiced black magic until a time when an exalted being, called Tutuguta, intended to reform it. Bloody fights ensued, with one sector prevailing over the other, and finally, after the triumph of good, the wicked monks were defeated.
Tibet remains unchanged until today. It keeps always its religion intangible. Yellow-cap Lamas preserve the esoteric doctrine. An exalted being leads them: the Dalai Lama, taken as the very expression of God. Helene Petrovna Blavatsky tells in “Isis Unveiled” she witnessed in a Buddhist monastery the transmigration of the spirit of an old Dalai Lama to the body of a boy two years old.
Red-cap Lamas are those who lost the true doctrine and practice black magic and hoax.
Bernad, an eminent American physician, recently back from Tibet, where he could stay for three years in contact with Lamas and the Tibetan people, tells how those monks, far away of the world, detached of any civilization, had kept the religious concept pure, and how perfectly they know certain physical laws so far unknown to sages of our days, and explains how they practice levitation, telepathy, and long travels in astral body, and how they are able to stop beats of the heart and to regulate blood circulation.
As an oasis in the middle of the world, Tibet, navel of the world, center of force in our planet, has kept an ancient religion in its pristine power and beauty.