This exciting new product combines the speed, ruggedness, fluid choice and low ownership cost of Buskros Atlas and Aurora print systems with the capital cost of thermal Inkjet technology. While growing up I used to devour any and every strange and weird book I could lay my hands on.Introducing Buskro’s latest innovation! The Atom. This included not only UFO books (think Eric Von Daniken and others), mystical shamanism (think Carlos Castaneda), but also a whole series by T Lobsang Rampa. His most famous book, “the third eye”, (published in 1956) claimed that it related his experiences in a monastery in Tibet from about the age of seven.
It was all riveting stuff (for a 14 year old) and included encounters with yetis, and also finding a mummified body of his earlier incarnation. Oh and lets not forget his discovery of the early history of planet earth and how an impact by another planet caused the uplift of Tibet. Now hopefully all that should be enough to set your “bullshit” detector clanging away at its maximum setting.
The book was just a start, he went on to write a total of about 19 other books, but none were as successful as his initial offering, “the third eye”. Actually, its quite hard to pin down exactly how many more he wrote, because two were apparently written by his cat, or to be more precise, he claimed that his cat had used telepathy to dictate them to him. Yes OK, just in case you had not quite clicked from my previous outlay of the third eye, we are well and truly into kook territory here.Īlas, when I read all this I was at that time a rather naive young teen, so I lapped it all up and believed every word. OK, its time for the reveal, so who exactly was T Lobsang Rampa, was he truly a Tibetian monk? I was not alone, it became a global bestseller, but of course money had nothing to do with his motivation here, I’m sure he was only interested in spiritual enlightenment for us all.
Quite a few were truly curious to find out.
The most notable enquirer was the explorer and tibetologist Heinrich Harrer. Since he knew quite a bit about Tibet, he was rather skeptical about all these claims, so he hired a private detective from Liverpool named Clifford Burgess to investigate. His detective soon discovered that Rampa was really a plumber from Devon called Cyril Henry Hoskin. As for his linguistic skills, did he speak Tibetan? Nope, I think the closest he ever came would have been the end of Brighton pier.
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