Subject: Re: Dugpas From: raveling@Unify.com (Paul Raveling) Date: 1991-04-26, 13:59 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article <1836@tekig7.MAP.TEK.COM>, bradn@tekig3.PEN.TEK.COM (Bradford H Needham) writes: > > In article <1991Apr22.211155.4868@colorado.edu> ingraffi@tramp.colorado.edu (INGRAFFIA EDMOND J) writes: >> > > >> > >I ust noticced that everyone is now referring to the "evil spirits" >> > >(that WE mentioned) as "dugpas".... > > > > I heard it as "dougfus", a play on words for "Douglas Firs". When Jerry Boyajian posted his original note about the White Lodge as mentioned in "The Devil's Guard" he quoted from chapter XII, titled "Dugpas", which said among other things... "Dugpas is the name for sorcerers who cultivate evil for the sake of evil..." It would appear that either one or more Peaks writers is drawing from this now-obscure 1926 book or we've influenced them to do that. I gave a copy of Jerry's article to Scott Frost, who said he hadn't been aware of it. If the White Lodge connection was actually accidental, then they must have written in some references to things such as the Dugpas based on the info we forwarded. I passed that article on at a time that would have been about when the last episode's script was written. For the benefit of still more who haven't seen it, a copy of this article by Jerry Boyajian follows the form feed after my signature. ------------------ Paul Raveling Raveling@Unify.com > > Article: 8929 of alt.tv.twin-peaks > > Xref: unify alt.tv.twin-peaks:8929 rec.arts.tv:21972 > > Path: unify!csusac!ucdavis!csus.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think. .com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!shlump.nac.dec.com!ryn n.mro4.dec.com!ruby.dec.com!boyajian > > From: boyajian@ruby.dec.com (Cisco's Buddy) > > Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks,rec.arts.tv > > Subject: The White Lodge > > Message-ID: <3606@ryn.mro4.dec.com> > > Date: 12 Dec 90 07:16:21 GMT > > Sender: guest@ryn.mro4.dec.com > > Followup-To: alt.tv.twin-peaks > > Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation > > Lines: 96 Major Briggs: "There are powerful forces of evil. It is some men's fate to face great darkness. We each choose how to react. If the choice is fear, then we become vulnerable to darkness. There are ways to resist. You, sir, were blessed with certain gifts. In this respect, you're not alone. Have you ever heard of the White Lodge?" Agent Cooper: "The White Lodge. No, I don't believe I have." Well, Cooper hasn't, but I have. I don't know of any other "legitimate" source for the reference, but following are quotes from the fantasy adventure novel THE DEVIL'S GUARD (a.k.a. RAMSDEN) by Talbot Mundy, first published in 1926, and sadly out of print for the last 20 years. The page numbers cited are for the 1968 Avon Books paperback edition, though if you happen across a different edition and are inclined to look up the quotes, they can be found in Chapter XII, entitled "Dugpas". [Background: James Schuyler Grim (a.k.a. "Jimgrim") and his companions Jeff Ramsden, Narayan Singh, and Chullander Ghose, are hired to find Elmer Rait, a fellow American who's disappeared in Tibet. Along the way, they are beset by perils both natural and human.] Grim went on talking: "It's known, even in this monastery, that the dugpas have caught Rait. Dugpas is the name for sorcerers who cultivate evil for the sake of evil--that's as close as I can come to understanding it--they're vaguely like the Kali-worshippers of India. The people Rait set out to reach, and whom we want to reach, are the students of Life, so to speak--much in the same way that Luther Burbank studies botany, for the love of it. The dugpas are as much their enemies as the law of gravity is the enemy of the will to rise. Rait had intelligence enough to work his way into the outer fringe of the dugpa mysteries, but that was his limit. He began to try to use the Dalai Lama's letter that he stole from Mordecai. The Dalai Lama--or the Kun-Dun as they call him--and the Tashi Lama of Shigatze, are the trusted outer representatives of the inner secret White Lodge, whose whose headquarters is said to be Sham-bha-la." (p. 120-1) Lhaten was talking..."--No, the White Lodge is not at Sham-bha-la, but some of its brotherhood live there. The White Lodge never interferes with individuals, as such, any more than Nature may be said to interfere with individuals, as such. The greatest good of the greatest number always; and no favorites. Do the stars, for instance, limit their light to individuals? Yet one learns more about than another. How? By trying; by concentration on the study. Do the stars come nearer? No. Do they treat him differently? No. Neither does the White Lodge make distinctions. It is secret, just as electricity was secret before Thales, Gilbert, Faraday, and all of the others following them, discovered something about it. Electricity was there, always, but they had to find it; and having found it they could give it to the world, to use or misuse. Was electricity confined to any one place? No. Neither is the White Lodge confined to any one place. But some places are more suitable than others, just as there are certain places where it is more practical to establish electric plants...." "How has the White Lodge kept its secret all these years?" Grim asked. "Who kept the secret of electricity?" Lhaten answered. "Was there any need to keep it, while men were too stupid, or too busily engaged in cutting one another's throats (which is the same thing!) even to look for it? They were too superstitious to dare to investigate; afraid to be mocked or burned for heresy. Nowadays men know not much more, and they are as superstitious and as cocksure as ever. Nine tenths of them will mock you if you speak of the existence of the White Lodge; of the remaining tenth, some will try to put you in a lunatic asylum, some will curse you in the name of their religion, and the remainder will try to believe you for various reasons, most of them selfish..." (p 124-5) "To pursue evil, a man must have evil tendencies which will increase through cultivation as he becomes more and more responsive to the impulses that govern evil. Owls live in the dark. [emphasis mine - jmb :-)] ^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ Whales swim in the sea. Men with scientific tendencies discover laws of nature. Only those who have the character pertaining to the path they choose can succeed in the end; and though a shoemaker, like Kabir, can become a poet, that was because he had the poet's nature. In the same way, only they who have the necessary character can find or be received into the White Lodge, although anyone can receive its benefits, as anyone may read the poems of Kabir." (p. 128) -- "Evvy little bug got a honey ta hug but me." --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, "The Mill", Maynard, MA) UUCP: ...!decwrl!ruby.enet.dec.com!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%ruby.DEC@DECWRL.DEC.COM