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Expert: Bodhicitta - 3/23/2005


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Was the writer L. T. Rampa a real lama or a cheater? Because there are some rumours.
Thank you.

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Hi Latvian
I think it is well established that Lobsang Rampa was writing fiction and wasnt what he claimed!He was a plumber
with a good imagination if I remember rightly.

There are many things more strange within the bTibetan
Buddhist tradition than the fiction of Lobsang Rampa.
So keep looking!

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