Dr. Tuesday Lobsang Rampa

The books of Dr. Lobsang Rampa have introduced many thousands of people in the west to buddhist teachings and spiritual and metaphysical knowledge. Dr. Rampa was amongst the first eastern teachers to make this knowledge accessible to westerners in an easily understandable and enjoyable format and a forerunner of today's buddhist teachers such as Sogyal Rinpoche and Ringu Tulku. Dr. Rampa was a prolific author - his first book "The Third Eye" published in 1955, was followed by 23 more, and he continued to write until shortly before his death in Canada in 1981.
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