Editing Lobsang Rampa (section)

===Influence on Tibetologists' callings===
Donald S. Lopez, Jr., in ''Prisoners of Shangri-La'' (1998), points out that when discussing Rampa with other Tibetologists and Buddhologists in Europe, he found that ''[[The Third Eye (Rampa book)|The Third Eye]]'' was the first book many of them had read about Tibet: "For some it was a fascination with the world Rampa described that had led them to become professional scholars of Tibet."

Lopez adds that when he gave ''The Third Eye'' to a class of his at the University of Michigan without telling them about its history, the "students were unanimous in their praise of the book, and despite six prior weeks of lectures and readings on Tibetan history and religion, [...] they found it entirely credible and compelling, judging it more realistic than anything they had previously read about Tibet."{{sfn|Lopez|1998|pp= 104, 112}}