Himalayan News Service (June 7, 2011), expanded by Wisdom Quarterly
Buddha Boy in the forest on a platform for meditation and sermons (eTapasvi.com)
PATHLAIYA, Nepal - Wrapping up a two-week sermon session in Ratanpuri Jungle, Bara District, Southern Nepal, "Buddha Boy" (now Ven. Palden Dorje who practices tapas or austerities), according to his supporters organized into the Bodhi Shrawan Dharma Association.
Sermon sessions in the jungles of Nepal to visitors
Ram Bahadur Bamjon, who is said to have meditated for six years without food and water, returned to Halkhoriya yesterday to continue meditating.
He had once said his meditation session would last six years -- the same amount of time it took Siddhartha to reach supreme enlightenment from the time he learned meditative absorption from his first teacher, the yogi Alara Kalama, to the time he struck out on his own without teacher or companion and achieved his aim under the Bodhi tree.
Buddha Boys blesses Western visitor in the forests of Nepal (eTapasvi.com). English translation of his speech (video)Even after the completion of six years, Buddha Boy said at Ratanpuri on May 20 that he will continue his meditating.
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