“Budda Boy” Ram Bahadur Bamjan: People Flock To See Budda Boy In Nepal (Photos)

Ram Bahadur Bamjan is the teenage boy thought by many to be the reincarnation of Buddha sat quietly in the jungle as he blessed his devotees Wednesday with a light tap on the head. His followers believe this to be the “touch of the divine”. Read more on Ram Bahadur Bamjan and see more photos below.

Budda Boy sat in a white robe, with long hair flowing and never saying a word. The followers of Ram Bahadur Bamjan, 18, think that he has been there meditating without food and water since he was first spotted in the jungles of southern Nepal in 2005 The believers state that he sat without moving for months with his eyes closed underneath a tree.

But Bamjan came out of the jungle this week to meet his followers. Thousands of people have come to see him in the jungles of Rantapur.

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“I got a chance to see God today,” Bishnu Maya Khadka, a housewife, said after receiving Bamjan’s blessing Wednesday. “They say he is Buddha, but for me he is just God.”

Bamjan appeared healthy and strong and certainly didn’t appear to be showing signs of starvation or dehydration.

From the Associated Press:

Buddhism, which has about 325 million followers, mostly in Asia, teaches that every soul is reincarnated after death in another bodily form.

But several Buddhist scholars have been skeptical of the claims that Bamjan is a reincarnation of Siddhartha Gautama, who was born in southwestern Nepal roughly 2,500 years ago and became revered as the Buddha, or Enlightened One.

“Being Buddha means the last birth and the highest level that can be achieved. There can be no reincarnation of Buddha, even though Buddhists believe in life after death,” said Rakesh, a Buddhist scholar in Katmandu who goes by only one name.

“Meditating without food does not prove that he is the reincarnation of Buddha,” said Min Bahadur Shakya of the Nagarjuna Institute of Exact Methods, a Buddhist research center in Katmandu. “There is much study needed to be done.”

Bamjan has never addressed the subject in any of his speeches.

The devotees who have flocked to visit him have fewer doubts. Colorful prayer flags fluttered and incense filled the air Wednesday as the pilgrims silently approached Bamjan, who was surrounded by a line of Buddhist monks.

“I have no doubt in my mind he is a God,” said Meg Bahadur Lama, a local farmer. “He has been meditating without food and water and no human can achieve such a feat. I used to hear about such miracles in the past but now I got to see one.”

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