Ram Bahadur Bomjoan, the Buddha Boy is back in the news with reports that he plans to be buried alive while meditating. Bomjan now plans to begin ‘patal samadhi’ (underground meditation), a private TV channel reported Monday, quoting a local journalist. According to reports, his followers have already dug up an eight-feet deep trench in [...]
Update 13 March 2007: He’s been found safe and is meditating in a new place. All Headline News is reporting that the Buddha Boy (Ram Bahadur Bomjan) has gone missing again after he re-appeared in December last year on Christmas day. He’s been meditating near Halkhoriya pond in Bara, since his re-appearance in December. Locals [...]
I’ve seen many buddhist monks in Swyambhu and Bouddha taking three and half steps forward, then prostrate flat on the road while chanting mantras, and making several rounds around the stupas. But a monk from Tibet, Sherab Gyalsten has taken this to a whole new level by starting this from Tibet, crossing Nepal, and now [...]
UWB has posted this latest photo of the Buddha Boy. Currently 39 policemen are guarding him from 9am to 5pm. Also they’re reporting that the number of followers coming to see him has reduced. Less visitors means less disturbance! I think it’s good for him and his cause.
Ram Bahadur Bomjon, popularly known as Buddha Boy, who disapperead in March this year has been spotted near a dense forest in Pathlaiya nijgadh, on Sunday night. Local hunters, who had been out hunting in the jungle spotted Bomjon first. Few things we know from media after his reappearance: He looked slender than before, was [...]
UWB has posted a recently taken photo of Ram’s mother and sister in No News of Buddha boy but the life goes on… A significant number of users land in my blog searching for the keywords “buddha boy”, “meditating boy”, “boy with extraordinary powers”, “the boy with divine powers”, “buddha boy update”, “ram bahadur bomjon” [...]
I wanted to upload these photos for a long time and now finally after a long procrastination I’ve managed to post them. Enjoy… Bindabashini Temple, Pokhara. A young priest in Shiva Temple. It was an amazing and peaceful experience to receive a tika from him. His mantra chanting is very professional.
It’s an amazing experiment. I was touched by it, this just demonstrates what a difference one single human being can make.
A newly published book, "The Great Sons of the Tharus: Sakyamuni Buddha and Emperor Asoka", written by Subodh Kumar Singh claims that Buddha did not come from a royal family but a "Tharu" community that today is at the bottom of the social hierarchy in Nepal, living as bonded labourers. Singh, himself is a Tharu [...]
Stephen Hawking, the famous British astrophysicist and best-selling author is asking How can human race survive the next hundred years? He asks: In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years? As I write this I saw 18645 answers and no doubt there will [...]
