Grades of Initiation. — The Buddhist community is divided into three classes. The first or highest is known in Thibet as True Intelligence, or Chang Chub, meaning "the perfect" or "accomplished;" and Chang Chhub Sempali, or "Perfect Strength of Mind," because the graduate has accomplished...
They contended also that the fundamental meaning of the biliterals is to be ascertained from the meaning of the letters composing each, and for this purpose they assigned to each letter what the former called "significatio hieroglyphica," and the latter "valor logicus." This last is the ...