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** ''Bibliography of Sankhya-Yoga-Samuccaya Works''. Adyar: Madras, 1906. Appendix to the Upanishads. | ** ''Bibliography of Sankhya-Yoga-Samuccaya Works''. Adyar: Madras, 1906. Appendix to the Upanishads. | ||
** ''A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Adyar Library (Theosophical Society)''. Madras: Adyar Library, 1908. The Adyar Library Series No. 2. | ** ''A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Adyar Library (Theosophical Society)''. Madras: Adyar Library, 1908. The Adyar Library Series No. 2. | ||
* A bibliography for another [[Subba Row Medal]] recipient, [[Geoffrey Farthing]], lists titles and links to Internet versions, but not always the original publications: | |||
** ''After-Death Consciousness and Processes'' Part 1 [http://hpb.narod.ru/AfterDeathConsciousnessA.htm] and Part 2 [http://hpb.narod.ru/AfterDeathConsciousnessB.htm] | |||
** "Theosophy: Its Beneficent Potentialities" (2001 Blavatsky Lecture) [http://www.blavatskytrust.org.uk/html/a_blavatsky_lecture_2001.html], [http://www.theosophical-society.org.uk/html/insight_articles/blavatsky_lecture_2001.html], and [http://hpb.narod.ru/TheosPotentialities.htm] | |||
** "Truth Is One," ''Insight'' Autumn 2004 (Vol 45 No.3) [http://www.blavatskytrust.org.uk/html/articles/truthisone.htm] and [http://hpb.narod.ru/TruthIsOneGF.htm] | |||
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* [http://www.theosophy.ph/encyclo/index.php?title=Brotherhood,_Great_White# Great White Brotherhood] at Theosopedia | * [http://www.theosophy.ph/encyclo/index.php?title=Brotherhood,_Great_White# Great White Brotherhood] at Theosopedia | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
<references/> | <references/> | ||
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- The Awakening. London: Theosophical Publishing Society], 1906 and 1915. An account of how Light on the Path came to be. Excerpted in The Temple Artisan article "Death - Life's Great Portal."
- Works of F. Otto Schräder, the Adyar librarian who was awarded the Subba Row Medal for his scholarly contributions, listed chronologically:
- Die Fragen des Königs Menandros. Berlin: Verlag von Paul Raatz, 1905.
- Erster (älterer) Teil. Berlin: Paul Raatz, 1905. Series: Die Fragen des Königs Menandros / aus dem Pali zum ersten Mal ins Deutsche übers. von F. Otto Schrader.
- Tattvasarayana. An ancient Vedantic Itihasa. Issued in monthly parts. Madras, 1906. Edited by a staff of Pandits under the superintendence of Dr. F. Otto Schrader. Sanskrit. O.P.C.L. Series No. 4.
- Bibliography of Sankhya-Yoga-Samuccaya Works. Adyar: Madras, 1906. Appendix to the Upanishads.
- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Adyar Library (Theosophical Society). Madras: Adyar Library, 1908. The Adyar Library Series No. 2.
- A bibliography for another Subba Row Medal recipient, Geoffrey Farthing, lists titles and links to Internet versions, but not always the original publications:
Here are examples of references in various styles:
- Great White Brotherhood at Theosopedia
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- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Theosophical Glossary (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 189-190.
- ↑ Roderick Bradford, D. M. Bennett: The Truth Seeker, (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2006), 53.
- ↑ Bradford, 54.
- ↑ A. O. Hume, Hints on Esoteric Theosophy vol. 1 (Bombay, India: The Theosophical Society, 1882), 29.
- ↑ The International Theosophical Year Book 1938 (Adyar, Madras, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1938): 213.
- ↑ Year Book 1938, 213.
- ↑ Rukmini Devi Arundale, "Rukmini on Herself," Rukmini Devi Arundale: Birth Centenary Commemorative Volume, Shakuntala Ramani, ed.,(Chennai, India: The Kalakshetra Foundation, 2003), 15-16.
- ↑ "Lama Anagarika Govinda [obituary]," The American Theosophist 73:3 (March 1985): 86.
- ↑ Theosophical Order of Service, TOS In-Touch.online[1] No. 20 (February 2012), accessed February 28, 2012.
- ↑ Pasang Y. Arya, interview by Sylvie Beguin,"Lha and the Lha ceremony," Tibetan Medicine Education Center, available at Lha and the Lha ceremony.
- ↑ Dora Kunz interview by Peter Michel, 1995, Tape recording, Records Series 08.10, Dora Kunz Papers, Theosophical Society in America Archives, Wheaton, Illinois. Transcription by Sue Wright.
- ↑ Annie Besant letter to Fritz Kunz, 1923, Records Series 25.01, Kunz Family Collection, Box 1 Folder 9, Theosophical Society in America Archives, Wheaton, Illinois.
- ↑ Program Proposals, 1993, Records Series 05.07, Parliament of the World's Religions (1993), Theosophical Society in America Archives, Wheaton, Illinois.