Buddha Re-incarnate?

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Buddha back as this teen?
Police investigate claim that ‘reincarnated’ Nepal boy went without food & water for 6 months

November 25, 2005

HE’S just 15.

And thousands are flocking to see him daily, with some believing he’s the Buddha reincarnated, the police and media said yesterday.

Locked in meditation among the roots of a tree, Ram Bahadur Banjan has allegedly gone without food or water in a Nepalese jungle for six months.

He sits cross-legged and motionless with eyes closed in a niche within a tree about 160km south of Nepal’s capital, Katmandu.

He’s allegedly been that way since 17 May – but followers have been keeping him from public view at night.

A reporter for the Kantipur newspaper, Mr Sujit Mahat, said he spent two days at the site, and that about 10,000 people are believed to visit every day.

Soldiers have been posted in the area for crowd control, officials said.

A makeshift parking lot and cluster of food stalls have sprung up near Banjan’s retreat, an area not previously frequented by visitors.

Many visitors believe he’s a reincarnation of Gautama Siddhartha, who was born not far away in south-western Nepal around 500BC and later became revered as the Buddha.

But others aren’t so sure.

Police Inspector Chitra Bahadur Gurung said officers have interviewed the boy’s associates about the claim that Banjan has gone six months without food or drink.

Officers have not directly questioned the boy, who appears deep in meditation and doesn’t speak.

Officials have asked the Royal Nepal Academy of Science and Technology in Katmandu to send scientists to examine him.

Mr Mahat, the journalist, said visitors can catch a glimpse of Banjan from a roped-off area about 25m away from him between dawn and dusk.

Followers then place a screen in front of him, blocking the view and making it impossible to see him at night, Mr Mahat said.

‘We could not say what happens after dark,’ he said. ‘People only saw what went on in the day. Many believed he was some kind of god.’

Buddhism teaches that right thinking and self-control can enable people to achieve a divine state of peace and release from desire. Buddhism has about 325 million followers, mostly in Asia. – AP.

Source : http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg

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Buddha does not reincarnate, for He had attained Parinibbana.

Unlike the believe in the Mahayanis tradition (usually in China), the Buddha and the Arahats such as Ven. Sariputta and Ven. Mogallana, as well as those like Ven. Ananda, Ven. Maha Kassapa etc., there’s no more future rebirth for them. In his death moment, Ven. Sariputta said to Buddha that he bid the Lord Buddha farewell, as there is no more rebirth after that, a total extinction, with no more chance to meet each other after that. And the Buddha’s relics were purposely willed by Him to be in many pieces to allow the devotees to profess their faith, seeing his relics as if seeing him in person after his parinibbana.

In the Mahayanis tradition, they believed that the Buddha and the Arahats goes to a ‘ji le shi jie’, for their meditation had been only to the highest attainment of jhanas, which brings them to the Brahma realm. The life-span in the Brahma realm is so long that many times they forget that there’s no permanence even there. When their kamma which brings them to the Brahma realm extinguishes, they fall lower and lower and subjected to rebirth. Except for those who went to the Brahma realm upon attaining Anagami, the third stage of attainment, in which they will stay in the Brahma realm to meditate and cultivate and attain Nibbana from there. Upon the extinguishing of their kamma, they too, attain Parinibbana and no longer having the need to come back anymore.

So, to say that this Nepalese is a reincarnation of Lord Buddha is only a statement by those who do not understand what Nibbana really is. And there are those who wrongly say that the Buddha will still reincarnate and come back is holding on to some superstitious views.

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Buddha back as this teen?
Police investigate claim that ‘reincarnated’ Nepal boy went without food & water for 6 months

November 25, 2005

HE’S just 15.

And thousands are flocking to see him daily, with some believing he’s the Buddha reincarnated, the police and media said yesterday.

Locked in meditation among the roots of a tree, Ram Bahadur Banjan has allegedly gone without food or water in a Nepalese jungle for six months.

He sits cross-legged and motionless with eyes closed in a niche within a tree about 160km south of Nepal’s capital, Katmandu.

He’s allegedly been that way since 17 May – but followers have been keeping him from public view at night.

A reporter for the Kantipur newspaper, Mr Sujit Mahat, said he spent two days at the site, and that about 10,000 people are believed to visit every day.

Soldiers have been posted in the area for crowd control, officials said.

A makeshift parking lot and cluster of food stalls have sprung up near Banjan’s retreat, an area not previously frequented by visitors.

Many visitors believe he’s a reincarnation of Gautama Siddhartha, who was born not far away in south-western Nepal around 500BC and later became revered as the Buddha.

But others aren’t so sure.

Police Inspector Chitra Bahadur Gurung said officers have interviewed the boy’s associates about the claim that Banjan has gone six months without food or drink.

Officers have not directly questioned the boy, who appears deep in meditation and doesn’t speak.

Officials have asked the Royal Nepal Academy of Science and Technology in Katmandu to send scientists to examine him.

Mr Mahat, the journalist, said visitors can catch a glimpse of Banjan from a roped-off area about 25m away from him between dawn and dusk.

Followers then place a screen in front of him, blocking the view and making it impossible to see him at night, Mr Mahat said.

‘We could not say what happens after dark,’ he said. ‘People only saw what went on in the day. Many believed he was some kind of god.’

Buddhism teaches that right thinking and self-control can enable people to achieve a divine state of peace and release from desire. Buddhism has about 325 million followers, mostly in Asia. – AP.

Source : http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg

[Anonymous]

Buddha does not reincarnate, for He had attained Parinibbana.

Unlike the believe in the Mahayanis tradition (usually in China), the Buddha and the Arahats such as Ven. Sariputta and Ven. Mogallana, as well as those like Ven. Ananda, Ven. Maha Kassapa etc., there’s no more future rebirth for them. In his death moment, Ven. Sariputta said to Buddha that he bid the Lord Buddha farewell, as there is no more rebirth after that, a total extinction, with no more chance to meet each other after that. And the Buddha’s relics were purposely willed by Him to be in many pieces to allow the devotees to profess their faith, seeing his relics as if seeing him in person after his parinibbana.

In the Mahayanis tradition, they believed that the Buddha and the Arahats goes to a ‘ji le shi jie’, for their meditation had been only to the highest attainment of jhanas, which brings them to the Brahma realm. The life-span in the Brahma realm is so long that many times they forget that there’s no permanence even there. When their kamma which brings them to the Brahma realm extinguishes, they fall lower and lower and subjected to rebirth. Except for those who went to the Brahma realm upon attaining Anagami, the third stage of attainment, in which they will stay in the Brahma realm to meditate and cultivate and attain Nibbana from there. Upon the extinguishing of their kamma, they too, attain Parinibbana and no longer having the need to come back anymore.

So, to say that this Nepalese is a reincarnation of Lord Buddha is only a statement by those who do not understand what Nibbana really is. And there are those who wrongly say that the Buddha will still reincarnate and come back is holding on to some superstitious views.

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