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.
I have no idea what you are on about, but suspect you don't either. do as you will.
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.
Nothing. Ever watch Monty Python? Besides, I bet there are plenty of Hindus an Buddhists who find something "funny" about this boys story.
Thanks. I went back to re-read more posts, alas, gogo was gone.
I'll bite. What's the new school?
bttt
Well said.
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.
thank you.
you and I both know that there is a place for *cough* irreverent humor, but...
Who, me?
*whistling*
[Don't mention it.]
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.
"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?
KFC?
Kashmir Fried Chicken?
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.
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.
Maybe he bugged out so he could be on the next American Idol.
bttt
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