“String of Pearls” and the Five Tibetans

One of the frustrating things about the “Five Tibetans” is that everything DIRECTLY known about them is from a single book, one probably part fantasy.  Even if I believed the tale of “Colonel Bradford,” the notion that this guy learned anything but the raw basics of a set of baby exercises is rather hard to believe.

 

So this old, broken-down man went to these monks, and they taught him some healing exercises, and after X time he came back to the west and started teaching them.  Anyone think...