“Either America must be hushed up or America will be the end of the world.”
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Osho
Osho, also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Acharya Rajneesh, and simply Rajneesh, was an Indian godman, and founder of the new religious movement, the Rajneesh movement. He rejected institutional religions, insisting that spiritual experience could not be organized into any one system of religious dogma. As a guru, he advocated meditation and taught a unique form called dynamic meditation. Reject…
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Born 11 December 1931 · Died 19 January 1990 · Q148285
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2026· 9 entries
“Whether or not one accepts his teachings, he was no charlatan when it came to expounding the ideas of others.”
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Public attention spiked: 3,572 Wikipedia readers in one day, 84× the usual 43, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: Move 1 url. Wayback Medic 2.5 per WP:URLREQ#tribuneindia.com
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Public attention spiked: 3,468 Wikipedia readers in one day, 81.6× the usual 43, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 3,424 Wikipedia readers in one day, 80.6× the usual 43, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 3,310 Wikipedia readers in one day, 77.9× the usual 43, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: University years and public speaker: 1951–1970 At beginning of last sentence of first paragraph, replaced the comma in "Rajneesh later said," with " that".
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NDTV: When Osho Rajneesh Threatened To 'Destroy' Mahesh Bhatt: "He Was Defeated By His Girlfriend And Became A Non-Sannyasi"
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2022· 1 entry
Allegations emerged that Rajneesh had sexually abused followers
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2021· 1 entry
That, "As is fully supported in the testimony of Ava Avalos, an admitted co-conspirator, Sheela presented Osho with a general question about whether people would have to die if the Community was attacked and used his gen
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2017· 1 entry
Hindustan Times: Who killed Osho? New book raises questions about the spiritual leader’s death, seeks court probe
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2016· 1 entry
And quickly surpassed a million followers, becoming a cultural phenomenon in the country, with posts being republished by national papers and being shown on television
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2011· 2 entries
Author Farrukh Dhondy reported that film star Kabir Bedi was a fan of Rajneesh, and viewed Rajneesh's works as "the most sublime interpretations of Indian philosophy that he had come across"
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A national seminar on Rajneesh's teachings was inaugurated at the Department of Philosophy of the Mankunwarbai College for Women in Jabalpur
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2010· 1 entry
Pune bombing, a bombing that occurred near the Osho International Meditation Resort in Pune
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2006· 1 entry
Marking the 75th anniversary of Rajneesh's birth, Indian singer Wasifuddin Dagar said that Rajneesh's teachings are "more pertinent in the current milieu than they were ever before"
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2005· 1 entry
Urban observed that Rajneesh had undergone a "remarkable apotheosis" after his return to India, and especially in the years since his death, going on to describe him as a powerful illustration of what F
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1991· 1 entry
An Indian newspaper counted Rajneesh, along with figures such as Gautama Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi, among the ten people who had most changed India's destiny; in Rajneesh's case, by "liberating the minds of future genera
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1990· 1 entry
Died 1990-01-19.
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1986· 1 entry
And, after a period of public discourse, moved back to Pune in January 1987 to revive his ashram, where he died in 1990
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1985· 1 entry
Osho publicly asked local authorities to investigate his personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela and her close supporters for a number of crimes, including a 1984 mass food-poisoning attack intended to influence county electi
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1983· 3 entries
Sheela announced that he would henceforth speak only with her
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Of "a borrowing of truths, half-truths and occasional misrepresentations from the great traditions
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The Oregon Attorney General filed a lawsuit seeking to declare the City void because of an alleged violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution
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1982· 1 entry
That since their neighbors did not like them, they should leave Oregon
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1981· 5 entries
The increased tensions around the Pune ashram, along with criticism of its activities and threatened punitive action by Indian authorities, provided an impetus for the ashram to consider the establishment of a new commun
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The Rajneesh movement shifted its focus to the United States, where Osho established a commune called Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, Oregon
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And one count of having conspired to have sannyasins enter into a sham marriage to acquire U
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The BBC broadcast an episode in the documentary series The World About Us titled The God that Fled, made by British American journalist Christopher Hitchens
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Had given Sheela limited power of attorney, removing any remaining limits the following year
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1978· 1 entry
The German film maker Wolfgang Dobrowolny (Sw Veet Artho) visited the Ashram in Poona and created a unique documentary about Rajneesh, his Sannyasins and the ashram, titled Ashram in Poona: Bhagwans Experiment
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1974· 2 entries
Osho relocated to Pune, where an ashram was established and a variety of therapies, incorporating methods first developed by the Human Potential Movement, were offered to a growing Western following
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On the 21st anniversary of his experience in Jabalpur, he moved to a property in Koregaon Park, Pune, purchased with the help of Ma Yoga Mukta (Catherine Venizelos), a Greek shipping heiress
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1971· 1 entry
Adopted the title "Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh"
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1970· 1 entry
Osho spent time in Mumbai initiating followers referred to as "neo-sannyasins"
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1969· 2 entries
Was invited to speak at the Second World Hindu Conference, despite the misgivings of some Hindu leaders, his statements raised controversy again when he said, "Any religion which considers life meaningless and full of
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Socialism is the ultimate result of capitalism, and capitalism itself, of revolution that brings about socialism
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1966· 2 entries
Osho resigned his post at the University of Jabalpur as a lecturer in philosophy, and began traveling throughout India, becoming known for his criticism of the orthodoxy of mainstream religions, as well as of mainstream
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Resigned from his teaching post at the request of the university
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1964· 1 entry
“the third and last war is now on the way”
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1957· 1 entry
Studied at Dr. Hari Singh Gour University, Master of Arts (1957).
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1955· 1 entry
Joined the University of Sagar, where in 1957, he earned his MA in philosophy (with distinction)
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1951· 1 entry
Aged 19, Rajneesh began his studies at Hitkarini College in Jabalpur
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1931· 1 entry
Born 1931-12-11.
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