On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 04:24:31 -0800, Dr. Bipolar wrote:

Dr. Bipolar wrote:

Nepal's mystery "Buddha boy" reappears

By Gopal Sharma
Mon Dec 25, 11:02 AM ET

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A mysterious teenaged boy believed by some to be
a reincarnation of Lord Buddha has reappeared in eastern Nepal after
vanishing for nine months, a witness and a television channel said on
Monday.

Sixteen-year-old Ram Bahadur Bamjon was spotted on Sunday by villagers
in the remote and dense forests near Piluwa village in Bara district,
150 km (95 miles) east of Kathmandu, local journalist Raju Shrestha,
who visited the boy, told Reuters.

Bamjon disappeared in March from the forests in nearby Ratanpuri
village where he had reportedly been meditating without food or water
for almost 10 months.

"I have been wandering in the forests since then," Shrestha quoted
Bamjon as telling him.

"I am engaged in devotion which will continue for six years," the boy
told Shrestha.

Hundreds of curious onlookers, including many Buddhists, thronged the
site to see the boy, sitting in a meditating position.

A local TV station showed people pressing their palms together and
lowering their heads in devotion in front of him.

"I don't think he is a Buddha. But he has some sort of extra strength
to meditate. He eats herbs," Shrestha said.

Before his disappearance, an estimated 100,000 people from
Hindu-majority Nepal and neighboring India flocked to see him meditate.
They were not allowed to get closer than 50 meters (165 feet).

Shrestha, who met the boy up close, said he had shoulder-length hair
and sat cross-legged under a small tree.

"He has an ash-color shawl wrapped across his chest," he said, adding
the boy had a "flat-ended scimitar" next to him.

Buddha was born a prince in Lumbini, a dusty village in Nepal's
rice-growing plains about 350 km (220 miles) west of the capital
Kathmandu more than 2,600 years ago.

He is believed to have attained enlightenment at Bodh Gaya in the
eastern Indian state of Bihar, which borders Nepal.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061225/wl_nm/nepal_boy_dc_1

Note the quote --
"I am engaged in devotion which will continue for six years," the boy
told Shrestha.

That time span would end in...2012.
Dr. Bipolar

Interesting. Thanks for posting!

Woods