![]() ![]() He studied Tibetan, Chinese, and the art of carving wood for printing blocks. Rampa had spent his earliest years as a schoolboy in Lhasa. Its author was Lobsang Rampa, the son of one of the leading members of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama’s government. It is a work that has evoked sympathy for the plight of Tibet under Communist occupation and even inspired some to become Tibetologists, professional scholars of Tibet. Over the last four decades, readers around the world have discovered the book in sidewalk kiosks, airport newsstands, and university bookstores. The Third Eye introduced Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism to hundreds of thousands of readers in Europe and America in the 1950s and ’60s. ![]() It remains in print to this day, the best-selling book about Tibetan Buddhism. In 1956, the British firm Secker & Warburg published The Third Eye: The Autobiography of a Tibetan Lama. A guiding light to spiritual seekers, an inspiration to scholars, an acclaimed war hero, a seer who saw auras: but who was Lobsang Rampa? A decade after this poem was written, many people came to believe in a three-“Eye” Lama. ![]()
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