Talk:The Third Eye

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[edit] is it just me

is it just me or did he forsee the future. if that guy published his book in 1956, and assuming it took about a year to write it and and think of it, it would be around 1954-55 that he started writing. the invasion of tibet was in 1959. and its just a little weird how he knew everything about tibet, because tibet was a very isolated area back then.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.161.223.98 (talk) 02:11, 7 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Citing Sources

The phrase "it bears little relation to documented Tibetan life" intrigues me. Sources? Is it verifiable under Wikipedia policy? I understand that a private investigator found Rampa/Hoskins, but are the book's accounts of 20th century Tibetian life are innacurate? If the investigators went to Tibet (doubtful), then where's the documentation to say how Tibet really was and where the Third Eye got it wrong? The book describes Lhasa, the Dalai Lama, prayer wheels, family life, Chinese invasion, etc. Did the author(s) get those wrong?

[edit] I was amazed to read that Rampa was a British guy named Hoskins

As a teenager in secondary school in Nigeria, myself and some other young Nigerians encountered Rampa's books and read them with relish. I found them intriguing and spiritually uplifting, and a key aid in forming my initial adult opinions about religion. I am now an aspiring (beginner) Kadampa Buddhist living in England, and was attempting to find where I could buy Rampa books (out of nostalgia more than anything else), and discovered this WikiPedia entry. I am not quaified to comment on how Hoskins became Rampa or how the Western press came to perceive him, but I do know from reading his works that the writings of Rampa were spiritually positive and contained deep insight into Tibetan monastic life and buddhist teachings -- the sort of insight that could never have been made up. -- Carl Anthony