Posted on 11/12/2008 8:45:21 AM PST by Scythian
RATANPUR, Nepal — The teenage boy revered as a reincarnation of Buddha sat silently in the jungle as he blessed his devotees Wednesday with a light tap on the head, which they consider the touch of the divine.
The followers of Ram Bahadur Bamjan, 18, believe he has been meditating without food and water since he was first spotted in the jungles of southern Nepal in 2005, when believers say he spent months without moving, sitting with his eyes closed beneath a tree.
Where is your Obama now ...
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LOL. Loads of teenagers and 20-somethings do this without anyone mistaking them for the Buddha!!
Most of the time they don't make it outdoors to anyone's tree and they simply do it on Mom & Dad's couch..... add video games, TV, and iPods into the mix and we've accounted for a majority of all teens. They're not all Buddhas......
ROFL!!
LOL!
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Bamjam ? Now who would have thought that a young Flintstone
would be the incarnation of Buddha...
Huh, if that's all you have to do to be deified, my wife is Zeus.
Folks over there must have some killer weed.
He was meditating, basically the Buddhist equivalent of prayer. I don't buy the whole "since 2005" thing without food or water, but Buddhist monks have literally meditated themselves to death, dying in their medidative pose. Think of how people respect a martyr dying for his Christian faith or a monk taking a vow poverty (giving up all worldly things to devote himself to his faith) and you may get an idea of how people can revere someone who has taken his beliefs that far, or at least for this guy medidating for several years.
you guys are naughty
Well, he’s got the fat thing going. Now he just needs to go bald.
Dang! What did Buddha do to get reincarnated again? I mean if Buddha couldn’t go into extinction without remainder, why bother to listen to anything he had to say?
Oh well, my wife wouldn’t tolerate me being polytheistic anyway.
Why, then, does it make people pee a lot and get fat
I bow to thee! ; )
The followers of Ram Bahadur Bamjan, 18, believe he has been meditating without food and water since he was first spotted in the jungles of southern Nepal in 2005, when believers say he spent months without moving, sitting with his eyes closed beneath a tree.No food and water since 2005, and he's not moving, and his eyes are closed? It's like miraculous, man.
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