THE THIRD EYE
CONTENTS
Chapters Page
PUBLISHER’S FORWARD
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AUTHOR’S PREFACE
10I. EARLY DAYS AT HOME 11II. END OF MY CHILDHOOD 28III. LAST DAYS AT HOME 39IV. AT THE TEMPLE GATES 46V. LIFE AS A CHELA 58VI. LIFE IN THE LAMASERY 68VII. THE OPENING OF THE THIRD EYE 75VIII. THE POTALA 80IX. AT THE WILD ROSE FENCE 92X. TIBETAN BELIEFS 100XI. TRAPPA 115XII. HERBS AND KITES 122XIII. FIRST VISIT HOME 141XIV. USING THE THIRD EYE 148XV. THE SECRET NORTH—-AND YETIS 158XVI. LAMAHOOD 167XVII. FINAL INITIATION 181XVIII. TIBET—FAREWELL! 186
PUBLISHERS' FOREWORDThe autobiography of a Tibetan lama is a unique record of experience and, assuch, inevitably hard to corroborate. In an attempt to obtain conformation of theAuthor's statements the Publishers submitted the MS. to nearly twenty readers,all persons of intelligence and experience, some with special knowledge of thesubject? Their opinions were so contradictory that no positive result emerged.Some questioned the accuracy of one section, some of another; what wasdoubted by one expert was accepted unquestioningly by another. Anyway, thePublishers asked themselves, was there any expert who had undergone thetraining of a Tibetan lama in its most developed forms? Was there one who hadbeen brought up in a Tibetan family? Lobsang Rampa has provided documentaryevidence that he holds medical degrees of the University of Chungking and inthose documents he is described as a Lama of the Potala Monastery of Lhasa.The many personal conversations we have had with him have proved him to be aMan of unusual powers and attainments. Regarding many aspects of hispersonal life he has shown a reticence that was sometimes baffling; but everyonehas a right to privacy and Lobsang Rampa maintains that some concealment isimposed on him for the safety of his family in Communist occupied Tibet.Indeed, certain details, such as his father's real position in the Tibetan hierarchy,have been intentionally disguised for this purpose. For these reasons the Authormust bear and willingly bears a sole responsibility for the statements made in hisbook. We may feel that here and there he exceeds the bounds of Westerncredulity, though Western views on the subject here dealt with can hardly bedecisive. None the less the Publishers believe that the Third Eye is in its essencean authentic account of the upbringing and training of a Tibetan boy in hisfamily and in a lamasery. It is in this spirit that we are publishing the book.Anyone who differs from us will, we believe, at least agree that the author isendowed to an exceptional degree with narrative skill and the power to evokescenes and characters of absorbing and unique interest.AUTHOR'S PREFACE
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