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Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain; 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), also known as Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and later as Osho (Hindi pronunciation:), was an Indian godman, philosopher, mystic, and founder of the Rajneesh movement.
Nov 17, 2023 · Indian cult leader Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh created the spiritual practice of dynamic meditation. He started the Rancho Rajneesh commune in Oregon in the 1980s.
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Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (born December 11, 1931, Kuchwada [now in Madhya Pradesh], India—died January 19, 1990, Pune) was an Indian spiritual leader who preached an eclectic doctrine of Eastern mysticism, individual devotion, and sexual freedom.
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Apr 25, 2018 · The Netflix docuseries Wild Wild Country follows the saga of the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his cult in 1980s Oregon. But it doesn’t really address how it’s possible that thousands...
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Rajneesh — born in India around 1932 — came to America in 1981 already the leader of an eponymous religious group that he had founded in 1974, in Poona, India. A former journalist and philosophy professor, Rajneesh was a prolific author and speaker whose teachings were distributed via books, cassettes and videos; that, along with member donations, ...
According to the New York Times, Rajneesh came to America after conflicts with government officialsin Poona over his group’s tax-exempt status. In the U.S. he settled first in Montclair, New Jersey, where the group had purchased a castle and operated one of its centers out of a storefront. “We are very concerned about our property values, our child...
Against this social and political conflict came more serious altercations: In 1983, a Portland hotel owned by the group was bombed by an Islamic militant(though no one was killed) while in 1984, hundreds of residents of the Wasco County seat where the Rajneesh ranch was located became ill from salmonella infections. Later investigation discovered t...
The Oregon commune dissolved in the months after Rajneesh left the country and remained abandoned for years afterward, falling into foreclosure. (Strangely, some of the group’s barns and mobile homes were sold to another religious group, this one in Montana.) Rajneesh died in 1990 at 58 from heart disease after returning to Poona, according to the ...
Rajneesh movement, religious sect founded by the Indian mystic and spiritual leader Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, also known in later life as Osho. Rajneesh first initiated people into his order of neo-sannyasins in the early 1970s and set up the movement’s headquarters in Pune, India, in 1974.
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Named after the iconoclastic Indian guru, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (aka Osho, 1931–1990), Rajneeshpuram was a wildly creative religious community that brought together thousands of young devotees from all over the world to create a kind of free-love, New Age utopia in the Oregon desert.
