Testimonial letter from prof Vittorio Giavotto
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 Vittorio Giavotto. It is "Exhibit A-78" 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 will link to a pdf file of the original letter when the pdf is created. It has one page.
 Centro Ghe-Pel-Ling To whom it may concern Our center is a buddhist center fillowing the Tibetan tradition of teaching. It has been established in Milano in 1977, and since then it has operated seriously and continuously as a cultural center, dealing mainly with philosophical and psicological subjects. We entered in contact with the teaching and the thought of Bagwan reading some of his boocks and contacting peoples in some of his centers, and also listening some conferences. Even if we follow different phosophical schools, we we are certain that the thohght and the teachings of Rajnish can be very beneficial for all positive human beings. [signed] Milano, viale Romolo 1 Telefono 8375108 |
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