Osho's names
- Chandra Mohan Jain - Osho's birth name
- Acharya Rajneesh or
- Acharya Sri Rajneesh - Osho's name between the early 1960's to May 1971
- Bhagwan or
- Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh - Osho's name between May 1971 and December 1988
- I will tell you about the Japanese Buddhist seeress -- she has sent her picture:
- "Katue Ishida, mystic of one of the biggest and most famous Shinto shrines in Japan, stated recently after seeing Osho's picture, that: This is the person that Maitreya the Buddha has entered. He is trying to create a utopia in the twenty-first century. Lots of destructive power is against Him, and some people call Him Satan. But I have never known Satan to be poisoned. He is usually the poisoner, not the poisoned. We must protect this man, Osho. Buddha has entered Him."
- With great love and respect I accept Ishida's prophecy. She will be welcome here as one of my people, most loved. And by accepting Gautam the Buddha as my very soul, I go out of the Hindu fold completely; I go against the Jaina fold completely.
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- You will have to learn, Maneesha, not to call me by that ugly name again. I am just your friend. That's what Gautam Buddha's prophecy was: "My name after twenty-five centuries, if I can find a vehicle, will be Maitreya Gautam Buddha." Maitreya means the friend. From now onwards you will have to change your old habit.
- I am your Beloved Friend. You can call me "Beloved Buddha," which simply means the awakened one. But we have to spread around the earth that I have denounced "Bhagwan." I have in fact, just one day, taken it on myself to denounce it. I don't have any rights on it, but I have every right not to call myself Bhagwan.
- (Osho, Dec 26, 1988)
- Maitreya the Buddha, Beloved Friend and
- Beloved Buddha - December 1988
- Shree Rajneesh then
- Osho Rajneesh - Osho's transitional names between January 1989 and September 1989
- Osho - Osho's name since October 1989