![]() ![]() Proving himself an excellent student, he was chosen to receive the esoteric teachings and serve as a repository of knowledge against the prophesied day when Tibet would fall under an alien cloud. Young Lobsang was admitted to the Temple of Tibetan Medicine, where he underwent a rigorous course of study that emphasized mathematics and memorization of the Buddhist scriptures. To lose all and have to start again, and eventually to succeed.” ![]() To suffer great hardships, to leave the homeland, and go among strange people. ![]() On Rampa’s birthday, astrologers had predicted an eventful future for the child: “A boy of seven to enter a lamasery, after a hard feat of endurance, and there to be trained as a priest-surgeon. He enjoyed kite-flying, the national sport of Tibet, whose season began on the first day of autumn, signaled when a single kite rose from the Potala, the great palace of the Dalai Lama. He studied Tibetan, Chinese, and the art of carving wood for printing blocks. Rampa had spent his earliest years as a schoolboy in Lhasa. ![]() Photograph of Lama Lobsang Rampa, from the frontispiece of his second book, Doctor from Lhasa, published by Souvenir Press 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. ![]()
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