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Mystery "Buddha" boy goes missing
Yahoo ^ | March 11, 2006

Posted on 03/11/2006 3:14:19 PM PST by INDIAN_REPUBLICAN

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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To: freema
However, I believe the general consensus is that Mary was handed to the Essenes at quite a young age.

Old school.
161 posted on 03/11/2006 8:24:25 PM PST by aruanan
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To: Solamente

I have no idea what you are on about, but suspect you don't either. do as you will.


162 posted on 03/11/2006 8:28:24 PM PST by King Prout (many accuse me of being overly literal... this would not be a problem if many were not under-precise)
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To: gogoman
it's kind of hard surviving without water since last May.

Not that hard, since it was only during the day. "What happens behind the curtain at night, stays behind the curtain."

They made their quid, and got out while still in one piece before the rubes got too inquisitive. Awhile back, REAL doctors were making serious noises about doing an up close & personal examination of the phenomenon.

Like rutabagas, he'll turnip, probably at some "psychic convention" or other woo-woo roadside attraction, far from this scene.

Not that I'm cynical or anything, or doubt his divinity, or disbelieve his handlers propaganda explanations.

163 posted on 03/11/2006 10:12:39 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: KJC1
Answer me this, what have Hindus or Buddhists done to you or our nation, to cause you to advocate the mockery of their beliefs---which is precisely what you did on your initial post on this thread?

Nothing. Ever watch Monty Python? Besides, I bet there are plenty of Hindus an Buddhists who find something "funny" about this boys story.

164 posted on 03/12/2006 3:51:49 AM PST by bkepley
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To: indcons

Thanks. I went back to re-read more posts, alas, gogo was gone.


165 posted on 03/12/2006 4:44:59 AM PST by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: aruanan

I'll bite. What's the new school?


166 posted on 03/12/2006 5:01:38 AM PST by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: Hot Tabasco

bttt


167 posted on 03/12/2006 5:04:34 AM PST by ConservativeMan55 (DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
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To: King Prout
I have no idea what you are on about, but suspect you don't either. do as you will.

I think you stunned him with that crisp limerick. I'm not taking sides in your joust, but that limerick was very well done.

The casualty record threw me completely. Maybe that was the guy who invented limericks?
168 posted on 03/12/2006 6:32:30 AM PST by starbase (Understanding Written Propaganda (click "starbase" to learn 22 manipulating tricks!!))
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To: INDIAN_REPUBLICAN

Where's Buddha?
169 posted on 03/12/2006 8:49:50 AM PST by Andy from Beaverton (I only vote Republican to stop the Democrats)
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To: King Prout

Well said.


170 posted on 03/12/2006 9:11:24 AM PST by SquirrelKing (Contrary to popular belief, America is not a democracy, it is a Chucktatorship.)
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To: starbase
I'm glad you liked it... but limericks are dead easy. Haiku, now... they can be quite challenging to do right ;)

Maybe that was the guy who invented limericks?

That seems impossible. The limerick was so well established that Kipling, in a short story published in 1926, quoted as a childhood remembrance a limerick published in Punch Magazine no later than the early 1880's:

Chacque epoque a ses grands noms sonores,
De tous ce defunts cockolores
Le moral Fenelon,
Michel Ange et Johnson
(Le Docteur) sont les plus awful bores.

(As is common in Punch, the poem is barbed wit)
The meter is well established.
Moreover, in this same remembrance there is mention of a traditional accompaniment or chorus to limerick contests (similar in many respects to modern 'rap-offs' and 'filking' contests) sung by the audience between competing limericks:

Oh, won't you come up, come up?
Oh, won't you come up, come up?
Oh, wont you come up,
Come all the way up,
Come all the way up to Limerick?

I do not know how old the limerick is, but it is certainly far too ancient to have been invented by a fellow killed in World War One.

171 posted on 03/12/2006 11:48:46 AM PST by King Prout (many accuse me of being overly literal... this would not be a problem if many were not under-precise)
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To: SquirrelKing

thank you.
you and I both know that there is a place for *cough* irreverent humor, but...


172 posted on 03/12/2006 11:53:43 AM PST by King Prout (many accuse me of being overly literal... this would not be a problem if many were not under-precise)
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To: King Prout
you and I both know that there is a place for *cough* irreverent humor, but...

Who, me?

*whistling*

[Don't mention it.]

173 posted on 03/12/2006 12:12:50 PM PST by SquirrelKing (Contrary to popular belief, America is not a democracy, it is a Chucktatorship.)
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To: Humidston
"I saw something on TV about an American woman whose very young son was supposedly the reincarnation of Buddha (I believe)"

There can be no "reincarnation" of Buddha. Siddhartha Gautam became "Buddha" precisely because he had "freed" himself from the cycle of reincarnation. Indeed, if Buddha "reincarnted," then Buddha is Buddha no more, but just another unenlightened soul that is suffering from the karmic cycle called reincarnation.

174 posted on 03/12/2006 1:45:54 PM PST by sagar
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To: INDIAN_REPUBLICAN

"There is no doubt that the Chinese Communists killed him - just as they tried to do with the Dalai Lama many times before he fled from Tibet to India."

Feeling paranoia?


175 posted on 03/12/2006 1:52:16 PM PST by sagar
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To: TomGuy

KFC?

Kashmir Fried Chicken?


176 posted on 03/13/2006 8:31:37 AM PST by Gamecock (“We don’t preach the gospel clear enough for the non-elect to reject it.” ((Unknown))
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To: King Prout; Alex Murphy; topcat54; Frumanchu; Forest Keeper
do please remember that there seems to be a missing person in this case.

Or perhaps a big scam.

please also bear in mind that the comments you are making right now about a hindic ritual would probably get you banned had you made them about catholic or other christian rites.

Not hardly. Calvinists are bashed quite often without even a warning being issued.

177 posted on 03/13/2006 8:35:00 AM PST by Gamecock (“We don’t preach the gospel clear enough for the non-elect to reject it.” ((Unknown))
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To: Gamecock; topcat54; Frumanchu; Forest Keeper; King Prout
King Prout: do please remember that there seems to be a missing person in this case

Gamecock: Or perhaps a big scam.

Or maybe, since the article claims he had been meditating for 10 months, perhaps he achieved enlightenment and then simply turned himself invisible. According to at least one Buddhist website, the Blessed One (Buddha) was capable of rendering himself invisible, as he demonstrated to Baka Brahma, the "chief of the first realm of higher gods".

If A) Buddhism is true, B) reincarnation is true, and c) this boy really is Buddha reincarnate, you can't dismiss his simply turning invisible as one possible explanation. But if you don't hold A, B, and C as not true, well then there's the possibility that this boy's claims, and now his disappearance, are all a big scam.

178 posted on 03/13/2006 9:59:09 AM PST by Alex Murphy (Colossians 4:5)
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To: Gamecock; King Prout; Alex Murphy; Frumanchu; Forest Keeper
Or perhaps a big scam.

Maybe he bugged out so he could be on the next American Idol.

179 posted on 03/13/2006 10:58:05 AM PST by topcat54 (Roman Catholic by birth ... Protestant by the grace of God.)
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To: Reaganesque

bttt


180 posted on 03/20/2006 1:39:52 PM PST by ConservativeMan55 (DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
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