Christopher Hansard
Date: June 20, 2007 06:52AM
We await verifyable evidence to convince anyone that Christopher Hansard's claims are not a fraudulent and cynical fabrication. Until then perhaps the following points may sharpen the critical focus, and remind us that Dur-Con is just that.
Dur-Bon is an archaic traditional practice which does not involve medicine or healing whatsoever.
There, is amongst the traditional and authentic Tibean Bon tradition no recognition or practise of 'Dur-Bon'
Written and spoken Tibetan is required to learn, and achieve a full understanding of, genuine Tibetan medicine, Hansard is fluent in neither
The so-called 'Tibetan Bon Community', which Hansard claims predicted his birth, is completely unknown to Tibetan Bonpos I have consulted
The 'teacher' Hansard claimed came from the remote wilds of Amdo would be most unlikely to have learned sufficient English, to tutor a four-year old New Zealand boy in the complex mysteries of Tibetan medicine.
Based upon a reasonable estimation of Hansard's age, this Tibetan 'teacher' would have been required to obtain travel authorization from the Communist Chinese Regime, during a period when Tibet was sealed off from the outside and world, and religious persecution and cultural destruction was being visited upon Tibetans. This is highly unlikely.
The 'tribe' Hansard states 'teacher' came from, the so-called gNam, is completely unknown to Tibetan Bon scholars and does not appear as a clan name on authentic Tibetan Bon texts. Nor is it known to Amdo-Tibetans I have consulted.
The name he gives his 'teacher', 'Urgyen' is a Tibetan Buddhist name, closely linked to the Nyingmapa tradition
There is no correspondence of "twelve teachings", Hansard describes, within the traditional and genuine native religion of Tibetan Bon
The so-called 'Northern Treasure School' he claims as his 'lineage' is in fact not a school at all, but is based upon texts found in the Northern part of Tibet
Lastly, Hansard stated in a direct communcation to me, and elsewhere, that his 'system' was not related to the authentic Yungdrung Bon tradtion of Tibet. That being so how interesting that Hansard's amusing invention, called [i:17d6de0fe3]The Flowering Light Tantra[/i:17d6de0fe3], is comprised of supposed 'sayings' (itself a ridiculous fantasy) of Tonpa Shenrab [b:17d6de0fe3]the central figure in Yungdrung Bon[/b:17d6de0fe3])
Hansard received no authentic and recognized training in genuine Tibetan medicine and was not a Physician of Tibetan medicine.