Rampa maintained for the rest of his life that The Third Eye was a true story. When Rampa's original body became too worn out to continue, he took over Hoskin's body in a process of transmigration of the soul.
The monk spoke to him about Rampa taking over his body and Hoskin agreed, saying that he was dissatisfied with his current life. According to his third book, The Rampa Story, he had fallen out of a tree in his garden while attempting to photograph an owl, was concussed and, on regaining his senses, had seen a Buddhist monk in saffron robes walking towards him. He did not deny that he had been born as Cyril Hoskin, but claimed his body was now occupied by the spirit of Lobsang Rampa. Rampa was tracked by the British press and confronted with these allegations. In 1948, he had legally changed his name to Carl Kuon Suo before adopting the name Lobsang Rampa. Hoskin had never been to Tibet and spoke no Tibetan. The findings, published in the Daily Mail in February 1958, reported that the author of the book was a man named Cyril Henry Hoskin, who had been born in Devon in 1910 and was the son of a plumber. Heinrich Harrer was unconvinced and hired a private detective to investigate Rampa. He also takes part in an initiation ceremony in which he learns that during its early history the Earth was struck by another planet, causing Tibet to become the mountain kingdom that it is today. Subsequently Rampa sees yetis and encounters a mummified body of himself from an earlier incarnation.
The title is derived from an operation Rampa claimed he had undergone, in which a small hole was drilled into his forehead to arouse the third eye. The Third Eye purported to relate his experiences while growing up in Chakpori Lamasery in Tibet, after being sent there when he was seven. Cyril Henry Hoskin, wrote books with paranormal and occult themes, the best known is The Third Eye (1956).įollowing publication it was reported that Rampa was Cyril Henry Hoskin, a plumber who claimed his body hosted the spirit of a Tibetan lama going by the name of Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, who was claimed to have authored the books. T Lobsang Rampa was a British man who claimed to have given his body to the transmigrating soul of a Tibetan Lama, who proceeded to write 19 books about mystical subjects. Fortuna Books- Lobsang Rampa, for sale, rare books, used books, worldwide shipping from New Zealand
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