Osho
1931-1990    58 years
aka:  Rajneesh Chandra Mohan Jain (original birth name),
Acharya Rajneesh,
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh,
Zorba the Buddha,
Osho Rajneesh

Rajneesh Chandra Mohan Jain
Hindi: रजनीश चन्द्र मोहन जैन
famous Indian mystic, spiritual master

born Kuchwada, India
father: cloth shopkeeper
mother: mother of 11 children

eldest child of family

lives with maternal grandparents first 7 years in
rural village of middle India

moves back with family, public schooling

university student, studies
philosophy/psychology/religion.

university professor,
travels and speaks all over India

moves to Bombay, starts meditation camps,
seeing western people, starts "neo-sannyas"
movement.

moves to Pune, starts
Shree Rajneesh Ashram,
therapy groups, meditations, sannyas
continue--speaks to audience on daily
basis--recorded and transcribed into books and
audio/video tapes.

moves to Oregon, USA--starts commune and city
called
Rajneeshpuram, eventually arrested and
deported by US government for immigration
charges

World Tour, continues to speak discourses.

returns to Pune, continues to speak, focus on
Zen--center now called
Osho Commune
International

health deteriorates, and Osho dies in January
1990.

cremated, and remains put in "samadhi" at Pune
commune.

center in Pune renamed
Osho Meditation
Resort--
other Osho influenced communes,
meditation centers, and individual teachers spring
up around the world, publishing of his talks
expands, internet sites proliferate.
YouTube video of Osho talking
about sex and death--01:48
YouTube video of Osho talking about old
and new techniques of meditation--08:53
    Ungan said, "Osho..."

    Osho is really a great word of deep
    gratitude, love and honor. So much is
    implied that it cannot be translated by
    `reverend'; that reverend looks so ugly and
    Christian. Osho is very close and intimate,
    a very loving address, full of honor and
    gratitude...

                                        Osho
    Yakusan: Straight to the Point of   
    Enlightenment, ch. 5
oshobob  The Living Workshop
People in Osho's Talks