Rajneeshees buy Big Muddy Ranch for $5.75 million, and guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh arrives a month later. May 1982 Rajneeshees vote to form their own city – Rajneeshpuram – on the ranch ...

If you watched "Wild Wild Country," the Netflix documentary about the tumultuous 1980s events that resulted from the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's decision to make the U.S. his home, you probably ...

The Netflix docuseries Wild Wild Country follows the saga of the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his cult in 1980s Oregon. But it doesn’t really address how it’s possible that thousands ...

Who are Osho, Rajneesh, and Bhagwan? Trick question, because they’re all the same guy! For most of Wild Wild Country, his disciples refer to him as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, or just Bhagwan or ...

Also in 1981, Rajneesh’s group purchased the approximately 64,000-acre Big Muddy Ranch in Oregon’s Jefferson and Wasco counties, where John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn had once filmed a movie.

When Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh transferred his operation from Pune to Oregon in 1981, the emphasis within his community shifted from personal and interpersonal exploration to the arduous job of ...

Capably assembled from hundreds of hours of archival footage, Wild Wild Country’s focus is the late Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, an Indian guru in flowing robes and sporting a Rip Van Winkle-style ...

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, a self-styled "sex guru," and his followers took over the town of Antelope, Oregon, in the early 1980s Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses on human ...

The Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh following his arrest for trying to flee the U.S., Oct. 28, 1985. Bettmann Archive. By early 1985, things were unraveling.

At the end of October, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh broke his threeand-a-half-year “vow of silence” and began speaking publicly again—in a discourse on election eve, Rajneesh said that his coming ...

This remote 4-year-old city may lose its Indian guru namesake, and there are indications it won`t survive without him. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, being held without bail in North Carolina, faces priso… ...

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh breezed into rural Oregon in the early 1980s to spread love, enlightenment and, for those who did not believe, a little bit of salmonella. On Sept. 17, 1984, the Wasco County… ...