¹ As regards the esoteric meaning of the Forty—nine Days of the Bardo, compare H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine (London, 1888), i. 238, 411; ii. 617, 627—8. The late Lama Kazi Dawa—Samdup was of opinion that, despite the adverse criticisms directed against H. P. Blavatsky’s works, there is adequate internal evidence in them of their author’s intimate acquaintance with the higher lamáis tic teachings, into which she claimed to have been initiated.