Bharati told the publisher that the manuscript was a fraud and the He's initiated into esoteric doctrines, including one thatĮxplains how our planet collided with another planet, causing the Himalayas Snowman and came upon a mummy that was himself in an earlier Of mystical training and initiation - in a Western world so desperately Surgery in the skull to open up the eye of wisdom tales about the dangers Representing earlier incarnations of the man who views them arcane Mysterious breeze on enormous kites golden images in hidden cells, But the book also shows a shrewd intuition into what Has to do with Buddhism as practiced and Buddhism as a belief system in Bharati found many other problems with theĮvery page bespeaks the utter ignorance of the author of anything that There is no god in Buddhism, but the 'lama' apparently hadn't got thatįar in his library studies. Sunday school at age eleven and doesn't really know what he is talking Nominal Nisei Buddhist in Seattle, Washington, who somehow gets into Unless perhaps - I am trying hard to find a possible exception - he is a He may utter many contradictions but this statement he will not make, ' A Buddhist makes many statements of a puzzling order at times, and Was out of the bag very soon, when the 'Lama', reflecting on someĬataclysmic situation in his invented past, mused, 'for we know there is a Ten that he had never been either in Tibet or India, and that he knewĪbsolutely nothing about Buddhism of any form, Tibetan or other.

The first two pages convinced me the writer was not a Tibetan, the next Of Blavatskyan and post-Blavatskyan hogwash. I was suspicious before I opened the wrapper: the 'third eye' smacked The publisher sent a copy for review to several people knowledgeable inīuddhism and Tibetan culture, including Agehananda Bharati who has published Hoskin submitted a manuscript to the publishing firm of Secker & WarburgĮntitled The Third Eye, allegedly authored by Lama Lobsang Rampa.

(1910-1981), a British-born son of a plumber who lived in Ireland in the mid-1950s and moved to Canada in the 1960s. (monk) who allegedly took over the body of Cyril Hoskin Tuesday Lobsang Rampa is the spirit of a dead Tibetan

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