Chohan

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Chohan is a word that according to H. P. Blavatsky means "'Lord' or 'Master'; a chief".[1] Although Mme. Blavatsky claims the word comes from the Tibetan language, its origin has not been identified. In the Mahatma Letter No. 18 the word is spelled as "Cho-Khan", the Tibetan words chos (pronounced with a silent "s") meaning "dharma" ("teaching", "doctrine", or "law") and khan (spelled mkhan) means abbot. Also, the word mkhan as the second member of a two-part word means "one who practices or is skilled in" something. Another possibility is that the word Cho-Khan is a tibetan-chinese construct where "Khan" is a Chinese term meaning "lord", "chief", or "emperor".

The word Chohan is used in "The Mahatma Letters" to refer to.......

According to C. W. Leadbeater

Notes

  1. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 83.


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