Talk:The Third Eye (Rampa book)

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).

It's just you. China has had claims on Tibet for at least a hundred years. The occupation began in 1950. The idea that China had designs on Tibet has long been commonplace. 98.246.183.207 (talk) 10:37, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

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? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Robertkeller (talk • contribs) 20:43, 30 June 2006


 * Westerners who did have firsthand experience in Tibet, such as Heinrich Harrer (author of Seven Years in Tibet) immediately recognized the book as a fraud. See Donald Lopez's chapter on this book in Prisoners of Shangri-la.  Entenman (talk) 23:56, 13 August 2010 (UTC)entenman


 * The phrase "it bears little relation to documented Tibetan life" does not appear in the current version of the article. The first half of the book is quite convincing, but in the second half it introduces occult ideas not found in traditional Buddhist teaching.-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 07:15, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

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 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.103.64.30 (talk • contribs) 17:17, 31 May 2007