• Director(s):

    CLERTE (Joris)

  • Producer(s):

    DONCVOILA Productions

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2013

  • Language(s):

    French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

Lobsang Rampa, or the invention of Buddhism by an unusual Englishman. In England in 1956, a book written by a certain Lobsang Rampa, entitled The Third Eye, brought fame and fortune to its author. 

Written in the form of a mémoire, the book relates how the author was initiated, from a very early age, into the mysteries of the Tibetan Lamas, and was named by the Dalai Lama himself. But in 1958, a London journal outed the writer as a fake: Rampa’s identity was false, his qualifications were bogus, and his mystical journeys were a figment of the imagination. In reality, the worldwide bestseller author was a plumber with a wild imagination, who carried on living the life of a mystical guru.