The Voice of the Silence
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The Voice of the Silence is a book by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. It was written in Fontainebleau and first published in 1889.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> According to Blavatsky, it is a translation of fragments from a sacred book she encountered during her studies in the East, called "The Book of the Golden Precepts".
Contents
The book is formed of three parts:
- The Voice of the Silence
- The Two Paths
- The Seven Portals
Reception
A reviewer for D. T. Suzuki's Eastern Buddhist Society commented: "Undoubtedly Madame Blavatsky had in some way been initiated into the deeper side of Mahayana teaching and then gave out what she deemed wise to the Western world..."<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> In the journal of the Buddhist Society, Suzuki commented: "here is the real Mahayana Buddhism".<ref>Template:Cite journalTemplate:Full citation needed</ref>
The 14th Dalai Lama wrote the preface for the centennial edition by Concord Grove Press.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>