Esoteric Budhism

by Alfred Percy Sinnett

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Books about Tibetan Buddhism discuss Buddhism as it had developed and been practiced in Tibet, and having developed into four major schools: Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya and Gelug. Titles include: Buddhism: Its Historical, Theoretical and Popular Aspects, Karma: A Story of Buddhist Ethics, The Gospel of Buddha: According to Old Records, The Light of Asia; Or, the Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana). Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism, Sermons of a Buddhist abbot; addresses on religious subjects, and Buddhist Hymns: Versified Translations from the Dhammapada and Various Other Sources.

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Published January 1, 1981

About the author

source: Wikipedia

A.P. Sinnett was an English author and Theosophist.

Sinnett's father died while he was young, by 1851 Sinnett is listed as a "Scholar - London University", living with his widowed mother Jane whose occupation is listed as "Periodical Literature", and his older sister Sophia age 22 who is a teacher. Jane's sister Sarah age 48 is also a teacher.[1]
Sinnett married his wife Patience in 1870, probably in the London area. He is listed in the 1871 England Census at age 31, as a Journalist, born in Middlesex. His wife Patience is 27, and her mother Clarissa Edenson a "Landowner", is living with them.

By 1879, Sinnett had moved to India where he was "... the Editor of The Pioneer, the leading English Daily of India..."[2] He relates in his book, The Occult World that: "...on the first occasion of my making Madame Blavatsky's acquaintance she became a guest at my home at Allahabad and remained there for six weeks..." [3]
In 1880 Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott visited the Sinnetts at their summer-home in Simla. The Mahatma letters, which generated the controversy that later helped lead to the split of the Theosophical Society, were mostly written to Sinnett or his wife, Patience. The letters started at this time when Sinnett asked Blavatsky whether if he wrote a letter to her Mahatmas, she could arrange to have it delivered.
By 1884, Sinnett was back in England, where that year Constance Wachtmeister states that she met Blavatsky at the home of the Sinnetts in London.[4]
Sinnett asked Charles Webster Leadbeater to come back to England to tutor his son Percy and George Arundale. Leadbeater agreed and brought with him one of his pupils Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa. Using "astral clairvoyance" Leadbeater assisted William Scott-Elliot to write his book The Story of Atlantis, for which Sinnett wrote the preface.
Sinnett was later President of the London Lodge of the Society.
By 1901, Sinnett is listed as an author. His son Percy is also listed as an author and born in India.[5]