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Hmmmmmm ... yes ... i's for some time now been wondering when we were going to hear more on this story ...

Mystery "Buddha" Boy Goes Missing
Sat Mar 11, 8:45 AM ET

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali police began hunting on Saturday for a teenaged boy who some people believe
is an reincarnation of Buddha after he disappeared from the site where he had been meditating for almost 10 months.



Fifteen-year-old Ram Bahadur Bamjon has not been seen since early Saturday, said Hari Krishna Khatiwada,
a district official of Bara, 150 km (95 miles) southeast of Kathmandu.

The boy had been meditating there without food or water since May. Some of his followers are also missing.

"So far we have found no trace of them," Khatiwada said.

Sitting cross-legged beneath a "pipal" tree, which is sacred to Hindus, Bomjon drew more than 100,000 people to the dense forests in southeastern Nepal.

But visitors were only allowed to see him from 50 metres (165 feet) away and the boy was hidden from public view at night behind a curtain drawn by his followers.

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There's no way that this boy, or anyone else, could be the reincarnation of Buddha, because Buddha reached Nirvana.
When that happens, you escape from the cycle of birth/death/rebirth, and are re-born no more.
This is very basic, -Buddhism 101.

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Maybe he got reincarnated suddenly again? The police could at least have taken into custody the cicada found clinging to the empty tree.

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He's out for lunch.

[ChimpumCallao]

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Nepalese Buddha Boy ��reappears��
BBC News
March 20, 2006

A MISSING Nepalese teenager popularly known as ��Buddha Boy�� reappeared briefly on Sunday, his followers say.

The committee managing the meditation site of Ram Bomjan, 16, released video of its members purportedly meeting the boy near his village in southern Nepal.

The boy��s meditation and apparent 10-month fast attracted global attention before he vanished in March.

Large numbers of devotees flocked to see him to leave offerings. A massive search operation is still under way.

The chairman of the Om Namo Buddha Tapaswi Sewa Samiti (ONBTSS), Bed Bahadur Lama, told reporters that
he and his colleagues had met Bomjan about 3km (2 miles) south-west of his meditation site in Bara district on Sunday.

He said Bomjan had spoken to them for half an hour.

Ram Bomjan��s meditation has attracted many devotees

��He said he would reappear after six years. He has asked monks to perform prayers in the meditation spot,�� Mr Lama told reporters.

��I left because there is no peace here�� Tell my parents not to worry,�� Mr Lama quoted Bomjan as saying.

The alleged meeting is the first news of the boy��s possible whereabouts since he disappeared on 11 March. District authorities say they cannot confirm the sighting.

Bomjan��s followers and security personnel have launched a massive search operation in Ratnapuri forest and surrounding areas but have so far failed to locate him.

Bomjan��s followers claim he was an incarnation of Lord Buddha who was born in Nepal more than 2,500 years ago.

His followers say he has been meditating for 10 months without food or water and is immune to fire and snake bites.

But these claims have not been independently verified. Scientists were unable to examine the boy as his followers said it would disturb his meditation.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4824530.stm

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He's baaaaaaaaaaaackkkk...

Nepal's Mystery "Buddha Boy" Reappears
By Gopal Sharma
Mon Dec 25, 11:02 AM ET

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A mysterious teenaged boy believed by some to be a reincarnation of Lord Buddha has reappeared in eastern Nepal after vanishing for nine months, a witness and a television channel said on Monday.

Sixteen-year-old Ram Bahadur Bamjon was spotted on Sunday by villagers in the remote and dense forests near Piluwa village in Bara district, 150 km (95 miles) east of Kathmandu, local journalist Raju Shrestha, who visited the boy, told Reuters.

Bamjon disappeared in March from the forests in nearby Ratanpuri village where he had reportedly been meditating without food or water for almost 10 months.

"I have been wandering in the forests since then," Shrestha quoted Bamjon as telling him.

"I am engaged in devotion which will continue for six years," the boy told Shrestha.

Hundreds of curious onlookers, including many Buddhists, thronged the site to see the boy, sitting in a meditating position.

A local TV station showed people pressing their palms together and lowering their heads in devotion in front of him.

"I don't think he is a Buddha. But he has some sort of extra strength to meditate. He eats herbs," Shrestha said.

Before his disappearance, an estimated 100,000 people from Hindu-majority Nepal and neighboring India flocked to see him meditate.

They were not allowed to get closer than 50 meters (165 feet).

Shrestha, who met the boy up close, said he had shoulder-length hair and sat cross-legged under a small tree.

"He has an ash-color shawl wrapped across his chest," he said, adding the boy had a "flat-ended scimitar" next to him.

Buddha was born a prince in Lumbini, a dusty village in Nepal's rice-growing plains about 350 km (220 miles) west of the capital Kathmandu more than 2,600 years ago.

He is believed to have attained enlightenment at Bodh Gaya in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, which borders Nepal.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061225/wl_nm/nepal_boy_dc_1

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[Rteacher]

My understanding is that there are two Buddha's, one being an avator of Vishnu (infinite God...) and the other being an empowered jiva-soul (infinitessimal atomic particle of God...)

Jesus is an empowered jiva-soul, while Christ refer's to God the Father (infinite...) They are one in desire to bestow mercy on the fallen, conditioned souls.

Buddha also figures in the divine plan in an indirect way by extending mercy to animals while preaching a non-theistic philosophy and inspiring atheists to practice devotion to an incarnation of God.

Krishna is the source of all incarnations and avatars...

India has always been the main center of spiritual culture on this planet.

People like "Chimpum Calleo", living in remote regions and blinded by the glitter of materialism, apparently don't have a clue regarding absolute truth (though she's not bad looking ... )

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[huffdaddy]

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Siddhartha left the cycle of suffering. He was not reincarnated. That's the entire basis of the philosophy. He is who we refer to when we call him "The Buddha"