Rajneesh movement, religious sect founded by the Indian mystic and spiritual leader Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, also known in later life as Osho. Rajneesh first initiated people into his order of neo-sannyasins in the early 1970s and set up the movement’s headquarters in Pune, India, in 1974. In 1981 Rajneesh brought his movement, which was defined by spiritual enlightenment and sexual liberation, to the United States, creating a community known as Rajneeshpuram, in Antelope, Oregon. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh was born Chandra Mohan Jain in Kuchwada, a village in present-day Madhya Pradesh state of India, in 1931. He studied philosophy and spent