Ram Bahadur Bomjam (Palden Dorje), 18, known as ‘Buddha Boy’ made news all around the world when he meditated motionless for months without water, food or sleep under a tree in a remote village of Nepal. Local and international scientists unsuccessfully tried to explain his unique meditation technique.
For the second time he made international headlines when he reappeared in the second week of November. It is told that he has resumed his mediation in unknown place late Friday, November 21, after blessing thousands of devotees for the last 10 days.
Some believe he is reincarnation of Buddha and others including the president of the Nepal Buddhist Council don’t think he can be a Buddha only by meditating. Buddha needs life experience and the young man doesn’t have it.
But still he is something not to be taken lightly. He has done something everybody else think is impossible. He did stay under a tree for months and nobody could question his credibility. National Geographic team filmed him for at least 10 days and they couldn’t find him taking food or water. Science can’t explain how he could survive that long without water. The teenager staying still for months in itself is strange. It is another thing that he was not allowed any medical tests to testify his genuineness.
He started his meditation on May 16, 2005 and he disappeared all of sudden on March 11, 2006. He reappeared on December 26 and left again on 8th March 2007. Nepali police found him on March 26, 2007, mediating in a bunker-like seven feet ditch prepared on his request. On 2 August 2007 Bomjan addressed a large crowd in Hallori jungle in Bara district of southern Nepal.
On his second biggest appearance this month he blessed thousands of devotees and addressed them. Some questions however still remain unanswered:
- Should we believe in reincarnation?
- Can people live without food and water for long time and still remain healthy?
- Does mediation makes you a Buddha?
Please comment.
For further reference: here is a collection of videos of the guy in this page. You can see some documentaries and his address in Nepali language in the page. Photos of his months long mediation can be seen here. Various news can be searched in Google by names Ram Bomjom, Bomjon, Bomjan, Bomjam…. and so on.
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lol.
fake buddha is a fake.
just wait…
Great claims require great proof. How can someone be the same person as another who is dead? Let’s get real here; when you’re dead, that’s it.
he cant be buddha….he got enlightend..he cant get reborn…”what happens to the flame when the candle is blown out” well buddha is that flame…(the guy did exist historicaly as siddatha gutama)…ok im done *poof*
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he probably had a water-enema and some jelly-bellies that he nom’d when he yawned.
when you die, you die, that’s pretty obvious. The ’soul’ is just a combination of atoms that forms a brain, which forms thoughts. Once the brain dies, the ’soul’ (i.e. thoughts) dies too. But there’s something odd here nevertheless with this non hungry buddhist weirdo.
what would you be doing right now if you were god? -a question asked
What the article doesn’t tell is that at night a screen was erected around him so that no one could see him. Didn’t eat or drink, yeah okay.
First of all the dude looks like a burnout. Second of all what happened to all those hari krishnas that were always chanting at the airports, while their spiritual leader Sum Dung Goon was riding around in fancy cars and shat?
So, when you die, that’s it? Have you ever wondered how you came to be in the first place? Why would you think this is the only time you’ll ever be alive? I know, it’s because if you only live once and there is nothing after death, that gives you justification to do whatever you want. It’s ok, you don’t have to admit it. You’d just find some other way to justify your actions anyway.
i’d expect a god to do more than just sit still… like solve global problems… or reincarnate dinosaurs and wrestle them, that’d be awesome too
Poor humans. A warm will never get to know the Dragon’s thought.
He’s for real, he is the one who has come to freak out the New World Order, the IMF, the CIA, the UN, the
Queen and her Royal bloodthirsty family and friends, the Rothschilds etc, and
all the criminal Banksters of the world. While the “Anti-Christ” is being prepared by them right now in England – the
youthful “Christ” is in Nepal being prepared for the fight of the millenium. Who’s side will you be on?
For those who are clueless.. There is a “soul”, it DOES continue on after the death of our shells. It HAS been proven many times. There is more to life than what science says. As for this teen being Buddha, I can’t make any comments. He definitely has a good meditation technique that I’d like to learn but that is all I can say.
The Buddha BoY is a special soul. He is in search of something which no word nor any language can explain it. But in fact, he is in the search of the Enlightenment. He need a safe place to meditate for some time until he finds what he looking for. So, when the time is ready he will reveal his new experience of Enlightenment I mean his spiritual journey toward the Beloved One God and share his experience with other faitfull brothers toward Enlightenment. Please people don’t think about him in negative way which you know not about him and please pray for him to reach his destination.
Thank
It is important to realize that this boy isn’t claiming anything. It is others who are making claims for him. They are saying he is the reincarnation of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha. They claim he does not eat food or drink water. Ram Bomjam has made no such claims. Quite to the contrary, he has categorically stated he is not the Buddha. All he has stated is his intention to sit in meditation until he reaches Nirvanna…. the Buddha-Hood of enlightenment. The only observable event of any importance is his meditative practice. Thus far, it has been documented (by National Geographic) that his sitting meditation practice goes beyond the ordinary level of human endurance.. 96 hours with no visible movement. This is not a circus trick. There is no smoke or mirrors here… “nothing up the sleeve.” This is an extraordinary human achievement that is enhanced by the boy’s young age.
Many of the posted comments are from those who simply have no frame of reference to understand such a phenomenon. Intellectual discrimination based on personal experience, or lack thereof, is a good quality. Prejudice based on fear of the unknown and cultural ignorance is not. Those who speak in a derogatory manner of these events are completely missing the point. This boy is able to sit in transcendent meditation for days on end. I would put it to the skeptics and critics to see if they could sit for even one hour without moving their body… without scratching an itch,,, without clearing the throat… just one hour. If you are able to do that, then you will have some idea of Ram Bomjam’s remarkable accomplishment… then you will be in a position to voice an intelligent opinion.
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I nearly died of Hodgkins lymphoma when I was 6. I fell into a coma for 5 days, the doctors awaiting my demise. I crossed eternal darkness only to find a light in the dark, like a star. I followed the star untill it engulfed me, and i became ONE with everything. It was pure light, creation before its created. I was everything, and everything was me. This is the same for the life we live. I am you, you are me, we are all we see. Anything is possible if you beleive in it with all your being. This boy being real or not, doesnt matter, we are simply to exist and experience until the body “dies”. (death isnt real either folks, its only transition back to the source, to do it all over again)”Do not search for GOD, GOD is a given, instead just want more in every positive way” james E eldridge.
He just sits there meditating, going his way, no matter with or without food, there are others as well actually, and there have been in the past some that did it as well, there are even nutrition plans on how to get there (Chinese Xisuiyijinjing original text). So why not? What moves me, is that he goes for what he finds right, he just walks the walk, whereas we here mainly do some very childish talk. Cheers and wish you all the perseverance to go through with whatever you wanna do.