Even the "Buddha Boy" gets angry?*
*The bodhisattva claims he was not angry.
Ram Bahadur Bamjan, popularly known as the Buddha Boy, and his followers once allegedly captured and beat 17 locals near Manaharwa Village, Bara district, Nepal. He is reported to have held them for 24 hours and hit them with sticks because they were torturing animals and leading them to a sacrificial slaughter of biblical proportions. The Gadhimai Hindu goddess festival in Nepal leads to the death of a quarter million animals in an orgy of violence that is hard to comprehend and hard for the compassionate Dharma Sangha (formerly Ven. Palden Dorje), as he is now known, to quietly bear. The Himalayan Times reported that it was because the locals were “trying to scuttle his meditation,” while they were collecting vegetables in the Ratanpuri forest. A nepalnews.com article, however, claims that he was upset with the locals for taking part in the horrific animal sacrifices dedicated to Gadhimai -- claims he has denied. See previous Buddha Boy blog coverage here.
