Stepped out for a buzz-cut, I'm thinking. ;)
Posted on 03/10/2007 4:25:38 PM PST by mmanager
A Nepalese teenager hailed as a reincarnation of the Buddha has vanished for a second time in southern Nepal, a member of his support committee said Saturday. Ram Bahadur Bomjam, 17, who shot to fame in 2005 when his supporters said he had begun a meditation session that would go on uninterrupted for years, went missing on Thursday night, the committee member said.
"He suddenly disappeared from his meditating site in the jungle of Bara," said Raju Shah, a member of the committee set up after the boy became a local media sensation.
"He told his priest Indra Lama that he would meditate somewhere in other undisclosed locations."
Local media dubbed Bomjan "Buddha Boy" after supporters said he had been meditating for months without food, water or sleep, and tens of thousands of people flocked to see him.
He first disappeared in March 2006, telling his supporters the site had become too crowded.
Nine months later he reappeared and was set up at a new site by the committee, but this time visitors have been sparse.
Scepticism about the teenager's claims increased after his reappearance late last year, and local authorities froze bank accounts containing money collected from visitors.
Gautama Siddhartha, who later became known as Buddha or the Enlightened One, is believed to have been born in southern Nepal in around 500 BC.
Buddhists believe Siddhartha achieved enlightenment after meditating under a pipal tree.
I bet he slipped off to smoke a doobie
Only the judgement of history can make such claims.
I was thinking Tiger, but there was that story about the chicken-eating cow earlier. You may be onto something.
They should check the local McDonalds security camera.
He probably went out for a burger and fries.
He went to eat cow?
Yep, said he tasted, "Just like Chicken!".
At least they know WHICH cow.
A 17 year old boy has one thing on his mind, and it ain't meditating!
Perhaps he saw a monkey passing by in the jungle, and went to go spank it.
IIRC it was not the kid himself who originally made the claims, but some nutcase Buddhists (or con men), and they made the claim when the kid was way too young to have any involvement in hatching a scheme. The kid may or may not believe the story now, but I think he grew up being led by others to believe it. Maybe he's starting to get a clue that it's all a bunch of BS.
No, he ate a cow.
Cow was mad and he did die.
So, now, no Buddha.
Stepped out for a buzz-cut, I'm thinking. ;)
O.K. I'll take your view. He rode a cow and got the hell out of there. Him and the cow are now in hiding chewing their cud.
Kinda looks like a Holstein calf.
I could be enlightened if I slept under her tree.
;0)
One full second! LOL!
She comes from the Shaeleigh breed. Good stock.
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