Dangma
Dangma (Tib.: dwangs-ma or dwans-ma) is a rare Tibetan word which, according to H. P. Blavatsky means "a purified Soul. A Seer and an Initiate; one who has attained full wisdom".[1] This meaning agrees with the one found in the Tibetan-English Dictionary by H.A. Jäschke: "a soul, when purified from every sin".[2] In The Secret Doctrine H. P. Blavatsky wrote:
Dangma means a purified soul, one who has become a Jivanmukta, the highest adept, or rather a Mahatma so-called. His “opened eye” is the inner spiritual eye of the seer, and the faculty which manifests through it is not clairvoyance as ordinarily understood, i.e., the power of seeing at a distance, but rather the faculty of spiritual intuition, through which direct and certain knowledge is obtainable. This faculty is intimately connected with the “third eye,” which mythological tradition ascribes to certain races of men.[3]
Blavatsky maintains that the phrase "the dangma's open eye" refers to what in India is called “The Eye of Siva” or third eye.[4] This refers to a spiritual faculty that can "sense" the ultimate realities:
The Initiate, rich with the lore acquired by numberless generations of his predecessors, directs the “Eye of Dangma” toward the essence of things in which no Maya can have any influence.[5]
Notes
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 96.
- ↑ Technical Terms in Stanza I by David Reigle, 5
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 46, fn.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 46, fn.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 46, fn.
Further reading
- Dang-ma at Theosopedia