Star in the East: Krishnamurti: the invention of a messiah. Roland Vernon. 2002.

The extraordinary story of Krishnamurti is a tale of mysticism, sexual scandals, religious fervour and chicanery. Krishnamurti was “discovered” as a young boy on a beach in India by members of the Theosophical Society, convinced that they had found the new world leader, a spiritual saviour as historic and influential as Jesus. By the 1920s he was attracting worldwide press attention and people flocked to his talks in the thousands. In 1922,  Krishnamurti broke with the society and set out on a teaching mission of his own as a secular philosopher of spirituality. He ultimately had a career that spanned six decades, founded seven schools, published 500 books and encompassed thousands of books.