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- He is a prominent alternative medicine advocate and is
described as a "controversial New-Age guru".
- Through his several dozen books and videos, he has
become one of the best-known and wealthiest figures in the
holistic-health movement.
- He obtained his medical degree in India before
emigrating in 1970 to the United States, where he
specialized in endocrinology and became Chief of Staff at
the New England Memorial Hospital (NEMH).
- In the 1980s he began practicing transcendental
meditation (TM) and in 1985 resigned his position at NEMH to
establish the Maharishi Ayurveda Health Center.
- He left the TM movement in 1994 and founded the Chopra
Center for Wellbeing.
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