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Osho was a professor of philosophy and spiritual teacher. He changed his name several times. Among those, worldly-renowned name are Osho and Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. His birth place was Chandra Mohan Jain in Kuchwda, a small village in the Narsinghpur District of Madhya Pradesh state in India. He was born in Kuchwada, India in 1931. He spent his most childhood with his maternal grandparents, which he later mentioned as "the blessing in his life" for its carefree environment. He entered Hitkarini College in Jabalpur at his age of nineteen. Asked by the principal to leave the college, he transferred to D.N. Jain College and completed his B.A. in philosophy in 1955. After obtaining his M.A. in philosophy in University of Sagar in 1957, he started teaching at Raipur Sanskrit College and became a professor at Jabalpur University in 1960. While teaching at colleges, he accumulated the fame as a public speaker travelling throughout India and giving out public speeches. He later was deemed to be as Indian mystic by public. He ended his life in 1990 at his ashram in Pune. The exact cause of his death still remains questionable.
One of his strong hopes was creating what he called "new man", who embodies characteristics of Gautama Buddha and Zorba the Greek (from the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis) at the same time. Through this concept, Osho tried to reject neither science nor spirituality, but embrace them both. According to him, “New man” is not subject to one’s sex and does not belong to institutions such as family, political ideologies, or religions. Claiming the idea of “New man” publicly, Osho were often compared with other counter-culture gurus, and postmodern and deconstructional thinkers by people.
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- Osho (2000), Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic, New York, NY: St. Martin's Griffin, ISBN 0-312-25457-1
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- Carrette, Jeremy; King, Richard (2004), Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion, New York: Routledge, ISBN 0-41530-209-9.
- Heelas, Paul (1996), The New Age Movement: Religion, Culture and Society in the Age of Postmodernity, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN 0-631-19332-4
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