Breaking news: Nepalese buddha boy reappears, flagging T-shirt sales rebound
My heart skipped a beat today when I saw the news that Ram Bomjan, the 10-yr old Nepalese buddha boy, had reappeared. For those still ignorant of the buddha boy’s story, here’s a synopsis: buddha boy sits under tree for 10 months not eating or drinking, not even gnats’ nuts or vegan water; people come and pay good rupees to look at buddha boy, buy buddha boy t-shirt, throw pebbles at buddha boy to try and make him move, etc.; buddha boy disappears into forest causing t-shirt sales to double. Today’s news is that the buddha boy has reappeared briefly after two weeks in the woods, telling his followers he’ll be gone for six years and they’d better still be praying for him when he gets back.
Leaving aside the obvious, that Ram ‘buddha boy’ Bomjan is highly unlikely to ever emerge from the forest because he’s almost certainly been eaten by a yeti or blown to buggery-bollocks by Maoist rebels, if indeed he was ever more than a shoddily-assembled mannequin like you see outside every British 7-11, minded by a brace of wretched urchins, on any given night in November, leaving all that aside, I cannot be alone in thinking that Nepalese budda boy Ram Bomjan (left) bears a striking, not to mention uncanny, resemblance to one-time Jesus and Mary Chain ‘drummer’ and Primal Screamer Bobby Gillespie (right).
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Step 1: Don’t eat for 10 months.
Step 2: “mysteriously” disappear.
I think I may have solved the mystery.
Posted on 21-Mar-06 at 4:18 am | PermalinkThe resemblance is uncanny. Well spotted, ace …
Posted on 21-Mar-06 at 5:15 am | PermalinkIs Bobby Gillespie missing? You might be onto something there.
Posted on 21-Mar-06 at 10:12 am | PermalinkNorah: perhaps he’s simply become so thin no-one can see him anymore.
Pog, bb: if I’d been responsible for the latest Primal Scream album, I’d do what he did.
Posted on 21-Mar-06 at 12:49 pm | PermalinkHe’s friends with Kate Moss. That says it all.
Posted on 21-Mar-06 at 3:52 pm | Permalinki doubt that ‘buddha boy’ is a hoax. you’ve got to remember that not only is he not eating, drinking and doing his business, those things which are at this point questionable, it is not questionable that hes also not moving and is sitting in exactly the same position for 10 months. now thats a feat all ob its own. and as for his disappearance, 2bh i dont really blame him, if i had come as far as he has in his meditation and enlightenment and people were coming to throw rocks and shout at me and were littering up the place id probably move to a quieter place too.
i also find it quite ironic that his mother says that god will protect him… bless her
Posted on 20-Apr-07 at 10:12 am | Permalinkwell, i do have such heavy faith in him that he`ll reach enlightenment. if the ignorance keep looking upon him and criticizing him, better off not to act any of that when he can prove that without nourishment he can continue his goal when us, ordinary people, can’t even make it through 10 months. im not saying because of that i easily believe, is because of his devotion and the hope for us all. “thou shalt not throw stone”. yes, her mother prays for his protection, with that prayer she’s not alone.
Posted on 09-May-07 at 3:04 am | Permalinkdon’t demean everthing your small mind looks at
Posted on 10-Jun-07 at 4:56 pm | Permalinkthe two boys have no resemblance and no one knows for sure what the buddha boy is or was up to so stop trying to figure it out. We will see in six years.
Posted on 23-Aug-07 at 7:24 pm | Permalinkwhat if god was one of us?????????????????,,,,,,,,,,,…………..
Posted on 23-Nov-07 at 2:07 pm | Permalink