As for his linguistic skills, did he speak Tibetan? Nope, I think the closest he ever came would have been the end of Brighton pier. His detective soon discovered that Rampa was really a plumber from Devon called Cyril Henry Hoskin. Since he knew quite a bit about Tibet, he was rather skeptical about all these claims, so he hired a private detective from Liverpool named Clifford Burgess to investigate. The most notable enquirer was the explorer and tibetologist Heinrich Harrer. Quite a few were truly curious to find out.
OK, its time for the reveal, so who exactly was T Lobsang Rampa, was he truly a Tibetian monk? I was not alone, it became a global bestseller, but of course money had nothing to do with his motivation here, I’m sure he was only interested in spiritual enlightenment for us all. Yes OK, just in case you had not quite clicked from my previous outlay of the third eye, we are well and truly into kook territory here.Īlas, when I read all this I was at that time a rather naive young teen, so I lapped it all up and believed every word. Actually, its quite hard to pin down exactly how many more he wrote, because two were apparently written by his cat, or to be more precise, he claimed that his cat had used telepathy to dictate them to him. The book was just a start, he went on to write a total of about 19 other books, but none were as successful as his initial offering, “the third eye”. Now hopefully all that should be enough to set your “bullshit” detector clanging away at its maximum setting. Oh and lets not forget his discovery of the early history of planet earth and how an impact by another planet caused the uplift of Tibet. It was all riveting stuff (for a 14 year old) and included encounters with yetis, and also finding a mummified body of his earlier incarnation.
His most famous book, “the third eye”, (published in 1956) claimed that it related his experiences in a monastery in Tibet from about the age of seven.
#T. LOBSANG RAMPA BOOKS SERIES#
This included not only UFO books (think Eric Von Daniken and others), mystical shamanism (think Carlos Castaneda), but also a whole series by T Lobsang Rampa. While growing up I used to devour any and every strange and weird book I could lay my hands on.