Urgyen Bhotia
Names: Urgyen BhotiaUrgyenUrgyen Rimpoche
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 24 (2)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
B4
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 24A Tibetan from Darjeeling who arranged the Indian scholars' tour as a pretext to meet Yuri and Tamara; he can remote-view bright minds across Asia.
- Ch 24He first perceived Yuri and Tamara as a brilliant 'double mind-star' in 1974 and has watched them since, knowing Tamara's unborn child is a daughter.
- Ch 24As a young monk he proudly used mind-powers, failed to repel the Chinese invasion, fled to India, lost his powers through self-doubt, and then gained wisdom.
- Ch 24He teaches that soul is feminine, passive and part of matter, while spirit is masculine, divine, and knows good and evil; mind is soul infused with spirit.
- Ch 24He urges the couple to renounce killing even in self-defense, arguing that corruption of the leading minds would corrupt the whole growing World Mind.
- Ch 53Urgyen is a former Tibetan lama turned idealistic humanist who thinks Denis should marry and criticizes his inward-turning spirituality.
- Ch 72Urgyen Bhotia is a martyred operant whose ethic of love and nonaggression was reaffirmed at every previous Congress.
Connections
- related toYuri Gawrysspiritual mentor attempting to dissuade him from killing
- friend ofDenis
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 24Urgyen Bhotia meets Yuri and Tamara
Under cover of an Indian scholars' tour, Urgyen secures Moscow's approval to meet the couple, reveals his remote-viewing knowledge of them, and discusses Simonov's and Volzhsky's deaths.
- Book 1 · Ch 24Urgyen's plea on Koktyube Hill
Atop Koktyube, Urgyen explains soul, spirit and the World Mind, and urges the couple to stop killing. Yuri angrily refuses; Tamara, feeling her unborn child move, says she believes him.
- Book 1 · Ch 56Pyotr's birthday feast
Pyotr's family and guests celebrate with a lamb's head feast; Denis rescues it by coercion. Tamara privately explains Kremlin politics and organizes nine minds to protect the General Secretary.