Edwin John Dingle, known as Ding Le Mei to over 220,000
students of The Science of Mentalphysics, was born in England in 1881.
He became a journalist and established a publishing empire in Hong Kong
and Shanghai. On a mapping expedition across China for Sun Yat-Sen in
the early 1900s, he walked across China and into Tibet.
In his quest for spiritual knowledge he became one of the first
Westerners to enter Tibet and study in a Tibetan monastery, where he was
recognized as a highly evolved soul.
Upon his return to the West, he began sharing the teachings and
practices he had learned in Tibet, first in New York and later in Los
Angeles, California, where he began the Institute of Mentalphysics in
1927.
In 1941 the Mentalphysics Spiritual Teaching and Retreat Center was
dedicated in Yucca Valley (now Joshua Tree). Frank Lloyd Wright designed
Dr. Dingle's home and The Caravansary, a 700-foot-long structure with
motel-style rooms and a meeting hall. His son, Lloyd Wright, completed
the buildings. Ding Le Mei passed from this life in 1972 |