The state of Oregon has agreed to sell a 480-acre parcel surrounded by the former Rajneesh compound in central Oregon to a Christian youth camp that now owns the defunct commune’s land.

Rajneesh’s legacy is conspicuous today in the verdant hills of northern NSW, Australia, where many of his American and European-born followers have established themselves.

Claims of sham marriages between followers of controversial Indian guru Bhagwan Rajneesh in Australia are being investigated by the federal Government.

Leaders of a sect responsible for the Western world’s first bioterrorism attack have secretly recruited a workforce for a South Pacific island health resort.

Kathmandu, Aug 8 (IANS) Fifteen years after his death, controversial Indian cult leader Osho, alias Bhagwan Rajneesh, is being resurrected - in Russia by his disciples from Nepal.

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, a bearded, twinkling-eyed advocate of spontaneous giggling as a path to enlightenment, told jokes he cribbed from Playboy and rewarded faithful followers by sending them his toenail clippings in nice little boxes. He was a charismatic charlatan from India and a huge success in the West. Thousands of North American and European devotees provided him with so much money that at his height, in the 1980s, he owned 93 Rolls-Royce limousines.

What's it like to be brought up in a cult?: Can you imagine what it's like to grow up with 200 mothers and 200 fathers, all dressed in orange?

Tim Guest's upbringing as a child of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh 'free love' movement in the Sixties left him anything but spiritually enlightened

A book that describes life in the shadow of new-age guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (real name Chandra Mohan Jain, who later called himself Osho) has become an overnight bestseller in the United Kingdom.

Tim Guest gives an insider's view of how a charlatan fooled many people most of the time in his childhood memoir of life in a commune.

PUNE: The celluloid image of this century’s most celebrated and controversial guru, Osho induces instant laughter and cheerful spirits in the swank pyramid shaped Osho auditorium. The occasion: Osho Film Festival 2004.

Fourteen years after godman Rajneesh aka Osho's death, a Nepalese disciple who spread the movement in this Himalayan kingdom plans to focus on India, the goal being an Osho centre in each village.

PUNE: From black slippers, an ordinary watch and an unstitched white cloth to Rolls Royces, diamond-studded Swiss watches, rich flowing gowns and Gucci goggles. This is the story of Osho, who first came into the limelight as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.

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The New York Times, Dec. 10, 2002