Looking For Ram Bahadur Bamjom, the Buddha Boy of Nepal

There is no Buddha Boy meditating under the Peepal Tree. Searching efforts have begun as Nepalis and interested people around the world question how this happened and where the 16-year-old Ram Bahadur Bomjam might have gone.

A photo blog by Upendra Lamichhane and Shankar Acharya

Look Ma, there is no Buddha Boy

Look Ma, there is no Buddha Boy. This is the first time in teh last 10 months that a scene like this could be seen under the peepal tree. Otherwise, there would be a boy apparently deeply meditating (see the photo below). He left the venue early Saturday night and hasn’t been seen in the area since then.

Ram Bahadur Bamjom..the meditating boy under the peepal tree

Ram Bahadur Bamjom..the meditating boy under the peepal tree. This scene no doubt has become one of the widely photographed scene in recent times in Nepal. Posters have been circulated in Nepal and people are already wearing lockets with photos of Ram Bahadur Bamjom. Ram, famous as the Buddha Boy or the Little Buddha or the Meditating Boy stayed there meditating for about 10 months “without eating”.

Performing Pooja in the meditating are praying for Little Buddha's safe and sound return

Lamas and priests are performing Pooja in the meditating are praying for Little Buddha’s safe and sound return

Performing Pooja in the meditating are praying for Little Buddha's safe and sound return

In search of the Buddha Boy..members of Armed Police Force

In search of the Buddha Boy.. Members of Armed Police Force patrol the area looking for Ram Bahadur Bamjom after the committee looking after the Buddha Boy requested the police to search the boy. This is the first time police have arrived in this area after the 16-year-old boy started meditating under the peepal tree. The Bara District Administration Office has ordered the seal of different exit points and alerted the police to prevent anyone from abducting the boy and taking him away from the area.

Ram Bahadur Bamjom's mother sleeps in front of the Peepal Tree under which her famous son used to meditate

Ram Bahadur Bamjom’s mother sleeps in front of the Peepal Tree under which her famous son used to meditate. She is eagerly waiting for the safe and sound return of the Little Buddha. She said that she is not feeling hungry after hearing the news. She appears to be tired as she hasn’t eaten anything for last two days.

Belongings gathered from the meditation venue

Belongings of the Buddha Boy gathered from the meditation venue

Comments

338 responses to “Looking For Ram Bahadur Bamjom, the Buddha Boy of Nepal”

  1. coke Avatar
    coke

    He has already shown the world that he is different. Call him a god or a superhuman being- he does not belong to our category that’s for sure.
    I salute him for what he did and obvioulsy challenged people belongin to the material world that still peace and spiritualism is alive which is the only thing that one needs to be happy.
    Dear Bomjan wherever you be you’ll always live in our heart.

  2. ram lal singh Avatar
    ram lal singh

    i think lalu prasad abducted this little buddha to force him to meditate in bihar. it is already a big business in the little town chitwan, lalu will make a grand business in bihar.

  3. Nepalisongs.info Avatar

    thumbs up for Bomjon !!!

    This world is not good enough for you.
    Full of idotic politicians, Stubborn autocrats, and blood thirsty moasit morons.
    Its better you left this place before armageddon.

    Nepali’s beware this might be the sign of armageddon coming soon.

  4. hmsbeagle Avatar
    hmsbeagle

    What are the police there for with their guns? Are they hunting a terrorist?

    Seems ironic….. hunting little Buddha in a GK ruled country, PK led terrorism.

  5. rozan Avatar
    rozan

    nice to see all photos. i think we should not search buddha anymore. lets him be free. he is in search of peace. so why to go after him with armed police. BETTER LEAVE HIM IN THE WAY HE IS

  6. Tasj Avatar
    Tasj

    inspiring… even for a Catholic myself.

    I hope this is not a conspiracy of sorts, for the better good of the world it is better to have people believe and be faithful for the right reasons.

    It makes the world a better place.

    But even so, an inspiring young man in the most unlikely of places. Nice tree too.

  7. prabesh Avatar
    prabesh

    om namo buddha gyani

    may he teach the world peace. may there be no war in the world.
    om namo buddha gyani.

  8. Chankhe Avatar
    Chankhe

    It could be possible Little Buddha went to Gaya where the Buddha had enlightment.

    I am wondering if anyone else missing beside Buddha boy…

  9. Prakash Avatar
    Prakash

    Hi every body,

    Seems some of the readers in this blog have some issues about my comments on the so called โ€œlittle Buddhaโ€. Some of them also have suggested me to โ€œgrow upโ€, โ€œget maturedโ€. Some of them have characterized as some kind of weirdo.
    Ok here is the thing, I am 37 and I have been working for the last 13 years to rescue and supporter the girls that have been trafficked to Indian brothels. May be most of you think that my criticism of the so called โ€œlittle Buddhaโ€ is some kind of immature crappy thing. So Why donโ€™t you try to convince those innocent girls living in rehabs that Buddha reincarnated in Nepal and try to get their reaction?

    Once we rescued a girl who was sold to a trafficker by his own father, after rescuing her we took her back home after few months in rehab, you know what happened? The so called father sold her again and she was abducted from her home by some pimps. Her whereabouts is unknown till this day. We guess this time she may have been trafficked to some gulf countries. You know what happens to these girls once trafficked? Once a girl told me she had been gang raped by for 3 days by more than 30 Indians in a brothel. (We found her in one of the hospital in the Kamathipura, she was bleeding to death, and no one wanted to give her blood, even the police forced us to discharge her from the hospital ) So donโ€™t tell me how some foreigner in NY reacted to the โ€œlittle Buddhaโ€ story.

    Also, donโ€™t tell me about how great our religion is. I know it all. I think our religion is more oppressive than any other religion, even more oppressive than Islam. Last year we had one case; one woman was raped and killed when she was sleeping outside her house. Why she was sleeping outside her house? She couldnโ€™t go in because she was having her period. (In some parts in Nepal women are not allowed in the house during the menstruation period.)See!!!! This is our โ€œGreat Religionโ€.

  10. guest_001 Avatar
    guest_001

    i believe, we all are here to share our comments, throw what’s on yr mind so that at the end of the day, we all learn sth.
    praksh:
    u have absolutely full rights to say whatever the hell is in our head like we do, but the comments should b objective here, we are talking to comments not to ppl.

    wow. im really glad that we are talking to someone(you) who’s actually doing sth to help ppl instead of some of us with a privilege of writing comments only.

    see, i understand yr frustration out of experience but think about it, did religion really have sth to do with what the girls in nepal are going through? Or, is it the way our society, the government is set up that the central govt. has no worries about the rest of the country left in shambles.

    As for the comment on an american knowing ‘little buddha’, he/she is one of those ppl with privilege but remains informed to what interests the person which shows some concern.

    For your comments on religion, well i think the problem is there is no one system on religion that’s best, circustances make them change and if ppl don’t react they they rebound on you. Our part of the world has this idea engraved in ppl. who like to b pround of who they are are for thousands of years but times are different now and they demand a change. Or i say at least, it’s time to look, analyse and question even our religious documents. Im sure there is a lot to learn from them but some we could modify or omit for social structure or reasons of plain humanity, justice or equality. It’s time for a change. I can only guess there are many out there back home figthing for a change but there are barriers and they are strong and have lived for a long time, i point to the monarch system here, for example. Problem is, there are barriers for change when all we need is a wave of change.

    Again, now as i speak im sure mr. praksash is at work helping ppl. keep the good work.

  11. guest_001 Avatar
    guest_001

    sorry abt the diversion, let’s get back to comments on this…

    interesting event…no certain answer yet, huh.

    when i luk at the picture, the forest doesn’t look dense enough for him to be walking around freely. does anybody know this area better? been there? seen this? just curious.

    also, according to buddhism, if one become a buddha to be ‘the one’, then is it possible for an individual to vanish with the soul? sounds weird but does buddhism go around like this ever?

    hey, i think he went to get some fruits from the forest or sth. gotta take a break u know.

  12. waiba Avatar
    waiba

    Prakesh,

    Donโ€™t think that you are the only person who is doing something to elevate human sufferings. Just because you don’t see it does not mean its not there. Ok you have seen the ugly side of humanity, have you ever pondered why people inflict pain and suffering to another human being?

  13. Banduk For Buddha? Avatar
    Banduk For Buddha?

    Oh.. my God, what time has come in our country?

    Armed Police are searching for Buddha Boy… what a situation? What a scene?

  14. sleek Avatar
    sleek

    He Prakash,

    Kavi Kavita Hos, Kavita Kavi Hos,
    Kavita Taba Po hunncha!
    Sabda Thupari Ke Hunchha?
    Bhava Bhaye po Hunchha?

    Write short man. Don’t have time to read your long comments

  15. yayaBudhha Avatar
    yayaBudhha

    Well it is about the time this nonsense has stopped. He probbaly has malnourished due to the greed of fame and money. It ofcourse is heartbreaking news for all Nepalis who were hoping to get on the good side of the world map for having ‘another Buddha’. But people cheer up, let the life go on. There will be another miracle soon. Don’t you people remember once Ganeshji drinking the milk ? Maybe Shivaji will start to smoke Surya next time and we will have something again.

  16. Cyp Avatar
    Cyp

    Hello folks,

    I agree 200% with Prakash.

    We french people took over a century to get rid of the criminal influence of christian religion, and still the so called pope spreads his reactionnary diktat on one sixth of this planet.

    All religions are bad. They belong to past and should remain in past.

    Hinduism is one of the worst, because it aknowledges the human beings are divided in “casts”, which is a crime.

    Buddhists is not better, as they are the worst hypocrits I ever encountered.

    Not talking about he other ones : they all disgusts me.

    We are in 21st century !

    Nepal is fighting a bloody war and it might be distractive to bother about Ram Bomjon…

    The only instructive fact about this story is that the boy has vanished and that nobody is able to trace him… Ha ha !!!

    Cyprien Luraghi
    Free online writer

  17. Indian Coke Avatar
    Indian Coke

    nakkali french…ha..ha…ha..he says we french
    nakkali, your christ was a lie, a gay who molested many children…his father too
    you might be one
    mohammod was a pimp…so are muslism
    yours is a retard religion
    hinduism and buddhism still the best

  18. oh NO Avatar
    oh NO

    It is little surprised to me and i think this could be happened in this unsafety country. I suspect that he was adducted by Maoists but the sad is everyday nepalese are being victims of murders, at the same time, in Afganistan few years ago the world’s big Buddha had been destroyed by Muslim Taleban and now today Nepalese man kidnapped and killed by Taleban again see this site http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4802052.stm

    This is really against peace and inhuman behave .

  19. Cyp Avatar

    You seem to have sniffed quite a lot of indian coke, bhai… and it’s famous to be an infamous mixture, so take care of your health : you have only one life.

    Since 1905 France has a law that separates religion and politics and that is good.

    Also : you should take some intensive course as you apparently cannot read english.

    Then : you should be a bit more careful before using such an offensive vocabulary towards religions, especially Islam, as nobody is anonymous on the Net and some retaliatory dhariwalle could have nasty ideas about you…

    And : I encourage you to have a good jerk off, as insulting me seems not sufficient to release your young energy. You’ll feel better afterwards.

    Post Scriptum : Ghandiji himself was against the cast system.

  20. kagyuster Avatar
    kagyuster

    Is this boy really meditating without eating or drinking? One Buddhist scripture states:

    ” … do not be led by reports, or tradition, or hearsay. … by the authority of religious texts, nor by mere logic or inference, nor by considering appearances, nor by the delight in speculative opinions, nor by seeming possibilities, nor by the idea “this is our teacher”.

    —and this quote is attributed to the Buddha himself:

    “As the wise test gold by burning, cutting and rubbing it, So, bhikshus (monks), should you accept my words — after testing them, and not merely out of respect.”

  21. Indian Coke Avatar
    Indian Coke

    Oh yea,
    you started it, insulting all the believers of all the religions
    [your words: All religions are bad. They belong to past and should remain in past. Hinduism is one of the worst, because it aknowledges the human beings are divided in โ€œcastsโ€, which is a crime. Buddhists is not better, as they are the worst hypocrits I ever encountered.] “bad” is nominative degree; “worst” is the superlative degree
    you used “bad” for all the religions
    you used “worst” for all hinduism and buddhism
    you implied other religions are better

    the history of your country, if you are a french, which i do not think 1%, is racist (there is close link between race and religion)
    fake french, you live in a no. 1 racist country, what about the French banning veil wearing children at school?
    the race riots (1991, 2005): White french burning the black French, born into first and second generation immigrant communities from the country’s former colonies in North Africa, these cycles are almost always sparked by the deaths of young black men at the hands of the police/white (whether through direct or indirect involvement), and then inflamed by the scornful response by the the White government.
    Tell me what is good.

  22. rozan Avatar
    rozan

    hey indian coke
    what the hell are u doing by saying abbusive words to christianity or muslim
    people like u created teroor and violence a9in society . unnecessary criticism like urs created racial conflicts like ritik roshan kanda and bhadra 16(murder of neplaese in Iraq). so better think more before u write words against others religion . i dont think wise man like u should use such words . Who knows words of urs can creates another riots like that of publishing mohammad cartoon in newspaper . do u want that bro

  23. Aviewwithgoggles Avatar
    Aviewwithgoggles

    I am from the Sikh religion and must say that the founders of the different religions in the world were not the ones that created societly rifts it was the people who have manipulated religion to fit their needs. May it be the caste system, a womens burka, or how offer to prayers at a temple were created for mans gains not gods. So for a person like the Indian Coke (must be on coke)to say deceitful things about ones religion is not driven by love of god but ones own hateful thinking. In todays world of lost hope and questioning of gods existence, these comments help no one.

    I cannot say for sure that Ram Bahadur is really the Buddha (hoping for mans sake it is not a fake) but i have to take a breath and assertain the power of god to make the impossible possible.

    Someone asked if blind faith in religion was possible in this technological advance world and reply to that was, the blind faith was possible as long the other side was not blind.

    thx. (here’s hoping that we god as he wanted us to see him)

  24. Cyp Avatar

    Hi Campa Cola,

    First, I do not think it’s an insult saying something is bad.

    I used “one of the worst”, not merely “worst”. it makes a difference.

    I did not imply anithing else, as I criticize all religions in the same way : I was harsh with christian hierarchy and I do have the same feelings with Islam and all the others -put the following list in alphabetical order if you like…

    I am agnostic, atheist… adharma, whatever you call it. Alphaprivative.

    I am a genuine french citizen, I wonder why you doubt… maybe your natural paranoรฏa…

    Just click on my nickname and you will end up on my website -it’s in french, sorry about it…

    We do have quite a bunch of racists in our country, but not more than anywhere else. I lived long enough in Nepal and India to affirm that there is -alas- no difference there.

    Being atheist, I fought against this stupid law that prohibits veiled muslim girls at school. At least there was a debate about this subject and we expect the next government to abolish this insanity.

    No black french was ever burned in any riot at any time. Where did you read that ?

    The two teenagers who died from electric shock in a power dispatcher where French ; they were chased by police and ended up there by mistake. I agree with you that it is a national scandal, but please, Campa-ji, you cannot compare that with the massive slaughter that occurs nowadays in your country.

    Last thing : being french doesn’t mean that I agree wih our government. You can spread shit on them and I will applaude.

    In the meantime Ram Bahadur B is still gone…

    Cyprien Luraghi
    Free online writer
    AKA Pascal Dai

  25. guest_001 Avatar
    guest_001

    i agree with rozan. c’mon ppl make this blog site educational, if not trigger little great reforms around us.

  26. Indian Coke Avatar
    Indian Coke

    what i meant was muslims keep many women, not only one wife, that is a fact
    but i was answering the fake french kid
    he called all religions “bad,” he called hinduism “worst,” my religion
    that is not less serious in india
    why don’t you say something to him?
    i did not say it right, i am sorry i take my words back

  27. Indian Coke Avatar
    Indian Coke

    the muslim adicals are looking for you
    rozan, u a coward bahun, wetting pants

  28. Robert Stevens Avatar

    Ram reminds me very much of this young man:

    Here’s a close up from the same photo of Bhagawan Nityananda as a young man:

    The ways of a Siddha are mysterious. Ram is alright. Don’t worry people.

  29. rozan Avatar
    rozan

    Thanks for comments mr Indian coke. Can i call u bihari as u have named urself Indian coke. Hey mr, dont predict one cast by his name . How the hell u know that i am bahun or chettrei or newar. So don’t stereotype me by reading my blog comments.

    and again i have seen many Hindus or might be urs grand father or our might have many wives as Muslims. Kings of Nepal who were Hindu too had many wives . So it don’t mean that u should criticize others .

    so man . See the good aspects of religion rather than critising dark sides of it . And u will see phul ko aanka ma phul nai sansar ra. THATS ALL FOR U BYE

  30. Indian Coke Avatar
    Indian Coke

    hey slave mind,
    do not tell me what i can say and what i cannot
    i am not your NOKAR or slave
    the issue is the fake french man called hinduism and buddhism the worst
    if he can say that, why cann’t i say islam and christianity are corrupt religions?

  31. oh NO Avatar
    oh NO

    Mr. french man Cyp=>
    prohibits veiled muslim girls at school is one of the excelent law and one the best example for the world at this moment. And recently in Nepal, too, will follow this.But you yourself agaist this law…what an awesome, that means i think you are a second class citizen or out born citizen,isn’t it??

    what have you got from Mr.prakash said up there?? you realised that you agreed with his comment but saying that all the religions are bad-worse…mr.prakash is not talking about Buddhist is bad, nor it has any historical fact on that. You must learn a bit more about world religions dude. It proves me that even you are living in the civilize country, your mind is still backward to the dark well. look,Only Hindu religion divides cast system,discrimination and only Islam Religion separatism,violence.

  32. Cyp Avatar

    Good morning Mr. oh NO

    What you say is very interesting. I will explain a bit my point of view in the french context.

    This law could be excellent, seen from abroad, but it is a bit more complex than what you read in the news.

    Firstly it does not only prohitbit to have veiled muslim girls at school, but it bans all *obvious* religious signs to enter the public education system.

    That means that Jews cannot wear their “kippa” (litte hat), Christians have to hide their cross, Muslim boys have to shave their beards and Sikhs (they are about 6000 of them here) cut their hair and wear no turban…

    I personnally feel that laicity (secularism)is great, but it has not to become an other religion. Tolerance should prevail. I dislike religions, but it doesn’t mean that I want to prohibit them.

    I respect praying people, though I find it a bit ridiculous to still believe in such childish stuff.

    Since the first laicity law (1905), things were OK and France was the first country to recognise Jews as citizens as far as 1792. Religions have absolutely no power in our country, the governements do their jobs and the faithfulls are respected ; churches and synagogues are maintained and repaired by our income taxes.

    But in the sixties, after colonial wars in northern Africa came a lot of workers (mostly Moroccans and Algerians) and they settled here.

    Now they are french citizens and their community counts 60 lakhs people. So Islam has become the second religion here.

    Though most of them profess a very moderate form of Islam, a tiny minority became extremists, especially those who live in suburban ghettos who are rejected by racist people (approximately 15 % of the french people vote for the infamous National Front party).

    Those people are torn between two cultures and that is why some of them reaffirm their islamity in a rather caricatural way. The phenomenon af veiled girls is very recent and concerns only a few hundred cases every year.

    A multicultural society should tolerate them. That is why this law is stupid. If they would have let them do, they would have shrink as snow in the sun.

    Now about myself. My forefathers came from Italy to find work in France in 1927, as there was a famine and dictatorship there (Mussolini). They had to suffer racism too (when I was a kid I was treated as : Luraghi, spaghetti, macaroni). But the italian community is now a real part of the french culture. As did the Poles, Portugueses, Spaniards and so on.

    So I am not a second class citizen, though my father was a poor mason (mistri). My son wants to become journalist and my daughter is very much into litterature.

    Mr. Prakash’s post appealed me, as his work touches the hidden part of nepali society. The worst maybe. I agree with you though, Mr. oh No that he is not pointing buddhist, but hindu religion. I did it. I can write pages about that subject if you want (I am novelist, after all, member of the french “Sociรฉtรฉ des gens de Lettres”).

    I am not you “dude”, but it happens that I know a little more about religions than what you think about me. And I think that Nepal is as “civilised” as France, too. It happens that I worked for years there as a trekking guide and lived in Boddhnath. And undertook a transhimalayan trek on an egalitarian basis with a nepali friend in 1989/90. From Srinagar to Ilam…

    I was maybe the first foreigner to write about the great poverty that plagues the far western districts of Nepal. You can probably still find my book at some good bookstores in KTM, it’s called “Pistes Himalayennes” and if you happen to have access to Himal magazine archives, you will find somme articles I wrote in 1990 about the trekking staff bad status and ecological problems.

    I live far away nowadays, but Nepal is the country of my heart.

    My regards

    Cyprien Luraghi
    Free online writer

  33. Prakash Avatar
    Prakash

    I Guess its my time to say some thing.I don’t want to say any thing about religion.There is no bad or good religion,all are same.I think religion is a matter of personal choice,”Believe it you you want to.”

    But some religion including hinduism have been used by a certain group of people for their benifit.In hinduism the Bhramins and Pundits have exploited to the extent that people like me just feel like throwing up at the thought of it.Nobody knows for sure but the so called little buddha could be the weapon of those evil pundits and bhramin.

  34. rozan Avatar
    rozan

    hey coke
    urs attitude oneself shows that u are slave minded. though i havent called u anything u ursself think that u are slave minded. hey bro. whats up man dont think so hai and if some one says says bad about u it doesnt means that u have to return back same type of abbusive and heartening words to him . i just wanted to tell u that be cool and think with cool and thanda mind like urs name suggest coke ,jiye tho sar uthyo ke(live with urs head up ) thats all

  35. babu Avatar
    babu

    I think little budha went to bihar ** bhaisi charauna **

  36. oh NO Avatar
    oh NO

    Mr.French man Cyp,
    Thank you for you cool comment and it was so pleasant that you concern to Nepal. And i don’t think Nepal is civilise country if the leader of Nepal still under-development and still lack of knowlege in this 21st century for those old folks. Yes, you raised a good point that you and many french people may agaist this law. It is some freedom views of general people but the leader of the nation will consider for the national security.And what about this black veil wearig of women, it frightened old people and children burst into tears in Europe,right ?? it might be true and not familiar in the west this weird culture,i think.

    However, you said that you have not much information about Islam religion, I won’t paint this pages full except i just want to let you know that Islam is the name of peace but who come against it, will be sacrifice for the Islam that is merit-Koran. And onething from the past to present Islam-muslim created violence.for example- in the past Afganistan and pakistan was Buddhist land, after muslim enter to this land and having power thausands of Buddhist monks were been killed within few minuts because those Buddhist monks didn’t convert into Islam.-If you need this evidence i’ve,even you can searh through Google. At present, we know, we heard, even in Indonesia many Chinese Buddhist abused and killed. Indonesia was also influence by Buddhist and later on Hindu,now world’s bigest muslim population. At the same time, In Malaysia many Buddhist are being suffered because of Islamic law(going to be Islamic state). As well as recently in southern Thailand, everyday muslim militant attack Buddhists to escape northern and day by day killing happens.More than 1200 people are being victims including Buddhist monks are beheaded.And the very fearful is that even Thailand has 95% Buddhist followers, 3% muslims,1% christians but Muslims claiming for the separate muslim land in the south. An another example is Tibet, was captured by China, why ? because Tibetans are Buddhist, Buddhist people love peace not violence.Number one teaching of the Buddha is to refrain from the violence.Number two is to refrain from the stealing etc. Tibetan were unarmed and many of them were killed.

    So, If All Buddhist around the world fight against those unfair reasons, the world will never get peace so that whatever happened, we,Budhist always silence,patient. So it is unable to compare that Buddhism is the same religion as you can see in this planet earth. Even you can’t compare why Buddhists are in tolarant in the case of Bamiyan world’s Biggest Buddha was destroyed by Taleban in Afganistan in 2001. why muslims can’t bear on the case of non-sense mohaMAD cartoon? see how vast deffirences….this is a tiny samples. just let you beware of this friend. good luck.
    Thank you once again

  37. Indian Coke Avatar
    Indian Coke

    french [icd] Cyp, Oh No, Prakash,

    this is a serious discussion. thanks.

    i keep my mouth shut.

    rozan, i do not speak hindi, i speak only nepali, i am from Rimik, Sikkim, which borders with Terahthum, Nepal.

  38. rozan Avatar
    rozan

    hey indian coke
    my intension was not to keep u shut. i had never tried for that . it was nice debating with u . common bro meet u next time in next issues . i am just learning how t owrite in blog . i am small kid in front of u in writing . i was just trying to express my ideas in blog that all .
    r

  39. Cyp Avatar
    Cyp

    Dear friends (including Indian Coke),

    You see : Internet is magic.

    All of us learned something from this debate who started as a boxing competition and ended up in mutual respect and comprehension.

    I guess that if we cling on UWB, it’s because it is one of the rare place where free expression survives in Nepal those days.

    It’s midnight in my village and everything is quiet; even dogs are sleeping because winter seems eternal this year…

    In a few seconds I will push the “submit comment” button and those lines will travel at light speed through copper wires, fiber, radio waves, satellites and so on…

    Good night to all.
    Spring is coming soon.
    Democracy will follow.

    And, whoever he is, a 16 year old boy is gone somewhere… I hope he is safe, and all the other Ram Bahadurs too.

    Cyprien Luraghi

  40. Below Zero Avatar

    The departure of Ram bomjon is mysterious to everyone, Like the mysterious universe still remain mysterious,

    There’s no mystery at all for the Man who realized the Mysterious.

  41. coke Avatar
    coke

    salute cyp

  42. hawkeye Avatar
    hawkeye

    After reading what Prakash had to say, I was trying to figure out, what has hindu religion got to do with nepalese selling their daughters or whoever ( I my self do not believe that hinduism is a religion but a way of life).

  43. Ms. Gortha Avatar
    Ms. Gortha

    It’s 8:30PM, and 20minutes ago I heard about “little buddha” as his called. I was anxious to know more about him and I found this website.

    As I read each comment, I realized how important is to know what is been said and how to express it the way you are thinking it.

  44. GoD!!!! Avatar
    GoD!!!!

    where is my comment? this morning there was 73 comments and now only 42? wat’s goin on? and why ppl r goin insane( if i can use this word here..tho ppl are using pretty objectionable words) here..

  45. Holi Avatar
    Holi

    GoD!!!,

    Look, even God is confused while talking about Ram Bahadur Bamjom. May be you were reading the previous entry?

    http://www.blog.com.np/united-we-blog/2006/03/11/ram-bahadur-bomjam-the-buddha-boy-disappears/

  46. GoD!!!! Avatar
    GoD!!!!

    hey holi
    im not God bro..after god there’s that !! sign ..so i am surprised n confused.. lol..see so many posts about lil buddha guy ..hard to keep up with..lol ok thanks bro

  47. Neurotica Avatar

    Whoa!

    Sounds like a religion battle out here. I thought this was only something about the Little Buddha Being lost. I truely appreciate the comments of Cyp and Prakash though.

    Let’s see whether Ram is actually meditating to be the enlightened or whether he went for a stroll since he couldn’t bear the same angle everyday.

    Uh… One more thing. How does this meditation go on? How can someone know for how long he/she has to meditate to get the answers? As far as I know Ram said that he needed six, but what made him think that he’d get the answers right after six years or what made him think that he’d be able to meditate fully for six years?

  48. Deepa Avatar

    Hi
    I am DEEPA a mauritian.Well its very surprising to see someone who has been meditating for 10 months to vanish in the air. To some people it may seem ridiculous for a youngster to meditate and leave all the earthly materials. Its buddism who has shown him a way to the path of truth.He is right in his place because we are daily drifting away from religion. I have recently watched a french documentary program on ‘little budha’and at one moment we see little budha opening his eyes and smiling too.Now we can’t say he is dramatising. He knows he is on the good path but instead we people should pray to god to keep him safe where he is. He is doing a good thing.

  49. matt sparks Avatar
    matt sparks

    was in nepal last year, was intrigued about ‘buddha boy’ but never went to see him, for me the majesty of the himalayas was a far bigger pull.

    Just reading through all the other comments, some serious views and opinions on religion. If buddha boy has stired spiritual discussion and thought in some people then fair play to him. Ten months well spent.

    I hope he found some of what he was looking for, and not become dissilusioned with what he may have been trying to achieve.

    We are all on this spaceship together, twirling through space, inwards, outwards all around us. Smile and try to be nice.

  50. nepali@gmx.de Avatar
    nepali@gmx.de

    UNITED we blog for a democratic Nepal…
    You People are truely careing about what’s going on in your country. In Germany that is long gone. May Nepal live and may the Nepali people live without suffering. Namo Buddha.