T Lobsang Rampa Lama From Devon

T Lobsang Rampa became a best-seller with the publication of The Third Eye. Despite its publisher receiving warnings ahead of publication that it was a fake, Secker & Warburg went ahead and sold 300,000 copies in eighteen months. Rampa, the self-proclaimed Tibetan Lama, eventually made headlines in the Daily Mail: "Third Eye Lama Exposed As Fake". In truth he was born Cyril Hoskin and had changed his name to Carl Kuan Suo shortly after the Second World War. This 5,800-word essay takes a look at the history of remarkable Rampa and his many books.