It was reported that the author of the book was a man named Cyril Henry Hoskin, who had been born in Plympton, Devon, in 1910 and was the son of a plumber. Lama Lobsang Rampa of Tibet, he determined after one month of inquiries, was none other than Cyril Henry Hoskin, a native of Plympton, Devonshire, the son of the village plumber and a high school dropout.' The findings of Burgess' investigation were published in the Daily Mail in February 1958. Burgess’s report, when it came in, was terse. One year later, the scholars retained the services of Clifford Burgess, a leading Liverpool private detective.
'In January 1957, Scotland Yard asked him to present a Tibetan passport or a residence permit. The Times Literary Supplement said of the book: 'It came near to being a work of art.' Controversy over authorship Įxplorer and Tibetologist Heinrich Harrer was unconvinced about the book's origins and hired a private detective from Liverpool named Clifford Burgess to investigate Rampa. Nevertheless, the book was published in November 1956 and soon became a global bestseller. Intrigued by the writer's personality, Warburg sent the manuscript to a number of scholars, several of whom expressed doubts about its authenticity. Fredric Warburg of Secker and Warburg had met the book's author, who at the time appeared in the guise of 'Doctor Carl Kuon Suo'. The manuscript of The Third Eye had been turned down by several leading British publishers before being accepted by Secker and Warburg for an advance of £800 (£20,000 today). 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. For the rest of your life you will see people as they are and not as they pretend to be.'ĭuring the story, Rampa sees yetis and eventually encounters a mummified body of himself from an earlier incarnation. As the projecting sliver was being bound into place so that it could not move, the Lama Mingyar Dondup turned to me and said: 'You are now one of us, Lobsang.
It diminished, died and was replaced by spirals of colour. It subsided and I became aware of subtle scents which I could not identify. I felt a stinging, tickling sensation apparently in the bridge of my nose. A very hard, clean sliver of wood had been treated by fire and herbs and was slid down so that it just entered the hole in my head. The book describes the operation as follows:
The title of the book is derived from an operation, similar to trepanation, that Rampa claimed he had undergone, in which a small hole was drilled into his forehead to arouse the third eye and enhance powers of clairvoyance. It was written by a man named Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, and it purported to relate his experiences while growing up in Chakpori Lamasery, Chokpori, Tibet, after being sent there at the age of seven. In November 1956 a book called The Third Eye was published in the United Kingdom. The name Tuesday relates to a claim in The Third Eye that Tibetans are named after the day of the week on which they were born. His best known work is The Third Eye, published in Britain in 1956.įollowing the publication of the book, newspapers reported that Rampa was Cyril Henry Hoskin (8 April 1910 – 25 January 1981), a plumber from Plympton in Devon who claimed that his body hosted the spirit of a Tibetan lama going by the name of Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, who is purported to have authored the books. Lobsang Rampa is the pen name of an author who wrote books with paranormal and occult themes. Problems playing this file? See media help.
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