The autobiography of a Tibetan lama is a unique record

of experience and, as such, inevitably hard to corroborate.

In an attempt to obtain conformation of the Author's statments

the Publishers submitted the manuscript to nearly twenty

readers, all persons of intelligence and experience, some

with special knowledge of the subject. Their opinions were

so contradictory that no positive result emerged. 

Some questioned the accuracy of one section, some of another;

what was doubted by one expert was accepted unquestioningly

 by another. 

The Publishers asked themselves,

was there any expert who had undergone the training of a

Tibetan lama in its most developed forms ?

Was there one who had been brought up in a Tibetan family?

Lobsang Rampa has provided documentary evidence

that he holds medical degrees of the University of Chungking

and in those documents he is described as a Lama of the

Potala Monastery of Lhasa.   The many personal conversations

we have had with him have proved him to be a

man of unusual powers and attainments. Regarding many

aspects of his personal life he has shown a reticence that

was sometimes baffling; but everyone has a right to privacy

and Lobsang Rampa maintains that some concealment is

imposed on him for the safety of his family in Communist-

occupied Tibet.   Indeed, certain details, such as his father's

real position in the Tibetan hierarchy, have been intention-

ally disguised for this purpose.

For these reasons the Author must bear—and willingly