![]() ![]() ![]() He and his wife, San Ra’ab, became Canadian citizens in 1973, along with Sheelagh Rouse (Buttercup) who was his secretary and regarded by Rampa as his adopted daughter. Faced with repeated accusations from the British press that he was a charlatan and a con artist, Rampa went to live in Canada in the 1960s. One of the books, Living with the Lama, was described as being dictated to Rampa by his pet Siamese cat, Mrs Fifi Greywhiskers. Lobsang Rampa went on to write another 18 books containing a mixture of religious and occult material. 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. But for some of us, in the second half of our lives, his name is redolent with powerful associations – positive and otherwise.īy way of a refresher, or for those of you who haven’t heard of him, here are a couple of excerpts from the Wikipedia entry for Lobsang Rampa: If you’re under forty years of age, chances are the name Tuesday Lobsang Rampa won’t mean anything to you. ![]()
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