{"id":803,"date":"2006-03-13T14:53:17","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T18:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/03\/13\/buddha-boy-absconds-or-disappears\/"},"modified":"2006-03-13T14:53:17","modified_gmt":"2006-03-13T18:53:17","slug":"buddha-boy-absconds-or-disappears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/03\/13\/buddha-boy-absconds-or-disappears\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddha Boy Absconds &#8211; or Disappears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a8144'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/\nnuddaboi.jpg\" width=\"185\" height=\"245\" align=\"left\">The weekend disappearance of a Nepalese boy whom supporters<br \/>\n        hail as a reincarnation of the Buddha has sparked a nationwide search.<\/p>\n<p>      Supporters have showered 16-year old &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/11\/29\">Buddha<br \/>\n      Boy<\/a>&quot; Ram Bahadur Bomjan with<br \/>\n        money and gifts for allegedly sitting in motionless meditation in the<br \/>\n        roots of<br \/>\n        a<br \/>\n        pipal tree without taking food or water, or using the toilet, since May<br \/>\n        16 last year.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He left as there was a lot of noise in the meditation area,&quot; his<br \/>\n          friend Prem Lama told the Kathmandu Post.<\/p>\n<p>        A search using plain-clothes police and civilians failed to find the<br \/>\n          boy, but he had been glimpsed in the jungle surrounding the meditation<br \/>\n          site at Bara district 250 kilometres (150 miles) south of Kathmandu,<br \/>\n          the Himalayan Times reported<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The boy disappeared at around three in the morning Saturday while the<br \/>\n          people who guard the site were sleeping,&quot; Shankar Acharya, a journalist<br \/>\n          from Bara, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>        The boy had told supporters through a friend that he was not a reincarnation<br \/>\n          of Buddha but was an &quot;austere sage.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>        Gautama Siddhartha, who later became known as Buddha or the Enlightened<br \/>\n          One, is believed to have been born in the same region near the border<br \/>\n      with India in around 500 BC.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Expect the kid to surface in California, dude, and come<br \/>\n        between Angelina and Brad&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/2006\/03\/12\/060312073150.7l3arbf5.html\">AFP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weekend disappearance of a Nepalese boy whom supporters hail as a reincarnation of the Buddha has sparked a nationwide search. Supporters have showered 16-year old &quot;Buddha Boy&quot; Ram Bahadur Bomjan with money and gifts for allegedly sitting in motionless &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/03\/13\/buddha-boy-absconds-or-disappears\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}