| Author Quoted | Tuesday Lobsang Rampa |
| Title Quoted | Third Eye. The Autobiography of a Tibetan Lama |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1957/10/22 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : Secker & Warburg. 1956 |
| Quotation | A thrilling and terrifying and fascinating book-The Third Eye by a Tibetan lama who calls himself Rimpoche Rampa. Life in the lamasery and their religion in general sounds like something out of ancient Egypt-the Old Kingdom [Note 20: Merton notes in margin, "This turned out to be a hoax."] Everything centered on death. Getting the monk to the other shore by telepathy. Or rather, to their next incarnation. Astrology. The fascinating names of the years. |
| Journal | A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 3, 1952-1960.; Edited by Lawrence S. Cunningham. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 126-27 |
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