Summary
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 edit
The book is formed of three parts:
- The Voice of the Silence
- The Two Paths
- The Seven Portals
Reception edit
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 edit
References edit
- ^ "The Voice of the Silence by H.P. Blavatsky: Online and Printed Sources". blavatskyarchives.com.
- ^ 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.
- ^ The Middle Way. 40 (2). The Buddhist Society: 90. August 1965.
{{cite journal}}: Missing or empty|title=(help)[full citation needed] - ^ 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.
External links edit
- The Voice of the Silence online