Read this a moment ago... Just wondering if this reincarnation
has been fore told in the sutras?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061225/wl_nm/nepal_boy_dc_1
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.
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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.
