Testimonial letter from Christian Combescure
This letter is one of a remarkable series of over 2650 letters amassed in 1983 to support Osho's attempt to get permanent resident status in the US at the time of the Oregon ranch. The image is reproduced here with the kind permission of The Oregon Historical Society. Information about their collection of these letters and other supporting material -- the "Jeffrey Noles Rajneesh Collection", named for Osho's immigration lawyer Jeffrey Noles, who compiled them in 1983 and donated them to the OHS -- can be found at this page. The wiki is grateful to the OHS for making access available for these documents. For more information and links to all the letters, see Testimonial letters.
This letter is from Dr. Christian Combescure. It is "Exhibit A-1376" in the Noles collection.
The text version below has been created by optical character recognition (OCR), from the images supplied by OHS. It has not been checked for errors but this process usually results in over 99% correct transcription. Most apparent "errors" are correct transcriptions of typos already in the original. The image on the right in the text box links to a pdf file of the original letter, it has 2 pages.
 Docteur Christian COMBESCURE RINZAI I am Medical Doctor, French surgeon, Profesor specialize in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. I know personaly a lot of others surgeon, in EUROPE, in States. (Pro: sor REESE/ NALEBUFF/ SWANSON/ MILLARD/ KLEINERT/ CRONIN/ WEINER...) in Central an South America (PITANGUY in BRASIL- JURY in ARGENTINA). I have done a lot of work in breast and thigh surgery and i have been invited last year to speak on TV (MBC) about cellulitis. I know personaly BAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH, have read a part of his 350 books ans know some of his disciples. I can certifie on my honor. That he has an international renown, that he help me diary in my wo to help people to be beautiful inside too. My result are a lot better and I want to speak of him in a book I am writting. I have go to RAJNEESHPURAM to visit. I have been surprise to see people so good, so happy to leave, peaceful, fool of love. In three weeks, I have never se one people drunk, or taking drogs, or fiting with others. About 15000 was here and all was clean, in order. This is an exemple of life for all the people and if the world was like this, we enjoy life and work in peace. This man is hope for the world. I am sure of this and I am not sannyas. Docteur Christian COMBESCURE |
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