Osho (Bhagman Shree Rajneesh)

Osho was the later public name of Chandra Mohan Jain, an Indian spiritual teacher also known as Acharya Rajneesh and Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. After teaching philosophy and giving public lectures, he developed a movement combining meditation practices with critiques of institutional religion, conventional morality, and inherited belief. Yeni Bir Yaşamın Anahtarları and many books published under his name are generally edited from recorded talks rather than manuscripts written as conventional, single-purpose books. Their advice should be read as spiritual discourse, not as clinical psychology or medical treatment. His communities in Pune and Oregon attracted an international following and also became the setting for serious legal, political, and public-health controversies involving movement leaders. A responsible biography must include both the ideas presented in the discourse archive and this documented institutional history.