Buddha Boy returns to meditating

Ram Bahadur Bomjon heads back to woods
Himalayan News Service (June 7, 2011), expanded by Wisdom Quarterly

Buddha Boy in the forest on a platform for meditation and sermons (eTapasvi.com)

PATHLAIYA, Nepal - Wrapping up a two-week sermon session in Ratanpuri Jungle, Bara District, Southern Nepal, "Buddha Boy" (now Ven. Palden Dorje who practices tapas or austerities), according to his supporters organized into the Bodhi Shrawan Dharma Association.

Sermon sessions in the jungles of Nepal to visitors

Ram Bahadur Bamjon, who is said to have meditated for six years without food and water, returned to Halkhoriya yesterday to continue meditating.

He had once said his meditation session would last six years -- the same amount of time it took Siddhartha to reach supreme enlightenment from the time he learned meditative absorption from his first teacher, the yogi Alara Kalama, to the time he struck out on his own without teacher or companion and achieved his aim under the Bodhi tree.

Buddha Boys blesses Western visitor in the forests of Nepal (eTapasvi.com). English translation of his speech (video)

Even after the completion of six years, Buddha Boy said at Ratanpuri on May 20 that he will continue his meditating.

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Nepal's Buddha Boy (Discovery Channel video)

(BuddhaBoyVideos) Five-part documentary on Nepal's "Buddha Boy"about Ram Bahadur Bomjon who has been meditating for years without food or water. He is thought by many to be a bodhisattva, being reborn to become a supremely enlightened buddha with the capacity to teach and establish a dispensation. Therefore, there are throngs of followers seeking to encourage him, bask in his boundless compassion and goodness, and the rarity of such a feat. Meditation in the vicinity of his forest must be more fruitful and inspired (were it not for the hullabaloo created by the sort of devotional pandemonium that runs contrary to what he is trying to accomplish).

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The mysterious pyramids of Egypt are much older than reported. And it seems clear they were not planned and implemented by and for human motives (sbwestfordk12.us).

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An infrared satellite survey of Egypt has revealed 17 lost pyramids and thousands of ancient tombs and other structures (Image: Courtesy of the Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham)

Seventeen lost pyramids and thousands of ancient tombs and other structures have been revealed in an infrared satellite survey of Egypt.

University of Alabama at Birmingham Egyptologist Sarah Parcak and colleagues used NASA and commercial satellites orbiting 430 miles above Egypt to show mud-brick structures under the surface. The stunning findings include more than 1,000 tombs and 3,100 settlements.

"This hints at the possibilities of discoveries to come," Parcak was quoted as saying by her university. "I am excited for my generation and the generations to come. There is enough to be excavated for 50 generations to come."

Preliminary excavations by a French team have confirmed the presence of at least two possible pyramids. The findings at Saqqara (Sakkara) could be one of the most important sites in Egypt.

The work will be profiled in the BBC documentary "Egypt's Lost Cities," airing Monday on the BBC. The documentary will also be broadcast on the Discovery Channel in the U.S. More