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Thursday April 12, 2007

Osho • Rajneesh:

Oregon state sells land near former Rajneesh commune to youth camp

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.
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Osho • Rajneesh:

Orange People’s sect appeal

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.
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Osho • Rajneesh:

Sect inquiry on sham marriages

Claims of sham marriages between followers of controversial Indian guru Bhagwan Rajneesh in Australia are being investigated by the federal Government.
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Wednesday April 11, 2007

Osho • Rajneesh:

Bioterror sect’s resort plan

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.
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Monday August 8, 2005

Osho:

Osho goes to Russia, with love from Nepal

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.
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Saturday February 12, 2005

Osho:

Seeing a cult through a child’s eyes

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.
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Tuesday January 20, 2004

Osho:

What’s it like to be brought up in a cult?

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?
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Osho:

The future was 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
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Osho:

Book chronicles life in Osho’s shadow

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.
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Osho:

Oranges and lemons

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.
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Wednesday January 7, 2004

Osho:

Celluloid Osho, quite a hit

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.
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Osho:

Nepalese to spread Osho’s gospel in India

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.
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Osho:

Glimpses into the life of the controversial ‘guru’

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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Saturday March 8, 2003

Osho:

Concern over ‘love’ cult

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Wednesday December 11, 2002

Osho:

Old Rajneesh Commune Lightens Up in Afterlife

The New York Times, Dec. 10, 2002
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Wednesday December 4, 2002

Osho:

Oshoites seek Khanna’s intervention

The Times of India, Dec. 5, 2002
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Osho:

Maharashtra: Probe sought into activities of Osho Commune

The Hindu (India), Nov. 22, 2002
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Tuesday November 12, 2002

Osho:

Pyramid swallows Osho

The Times of India, Nov. 11, 2002
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