Whatever happened to that fasting Buddha-like character, Ram Bahadur Bamjon in Bara Nepal - is he for real?
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Last I heard, they couldn't find him.\n\nAs for one Buddha per era, that's bunk.  All of us are capable of attaining buddha-hood.  There were buddhas before Shakyamuni, there were buddhas after him, there will conitinue to be buddhas.  He never claimed to be anything more than just a regular man, who found a means for relief of suffering, and shared that means with anyone who would listen.  He never set out to found a 'religion', only to help people discover the means to find their own path.  He's not a God, and never claimed to be.\n\nBack to the subject at hand.  Whether he is, or whether he isn't, does it really matter?  The world will continue to turn, and reality will keep on being reality, whether the boy is still sitting beneath the tree or not.
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the laughing/ fat buddha is Mi-Lo-Fwo: Maitreya Buddha.\nHe is also known as Ajita, 'the Unconquered' and ranks equal with the other great Bodhisattvas such as Avalokitesvara, Manjusri, Samanthabadra, Mahasthamaprata and Ksitigarbha. As the next Buddha-to-be he alone enjoys the distinction of being the only Bodhisattva recognised and popularly accepted by both Mahayanist and Theravadin countries.\nA rather inaccurate name given by Westerners to the Bodhisattva Maitreya as he is depicted in Chinese iconography. Maitreya means the Loving or Friendly One and consequently ancient artists thought it appropriate to depict this bodhisattva as a rotund, cheerfully smiling character. Statues of Maitreya are usually found at the entrance of Chinese temples and among more superstitious Chinese Buddhists are sometimes worshipped as a god of good luck and prosperity.\nhttp://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/maitreya-txt.htm\n\nthe laughing/ fat buddha is not the same as the historical budda (Siddhartha Gautama).
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God only knows!!!\n\nIt was "Bekkamu Sama" this, and "Bekkamu Sama" that...!! \n\nWhen people found out I was English it was "Igirisu-jin desu ka??!! Aaa! You met the Bekkamu Sama??"\n\nGordon Bennett!!\n\nThere was even a chocolate Beckham!! Mind you, I wouldn't have minded EATING it, but it was left standing around for so long that it must have been stale! \n\nThank god it's that Korean actor now...\nAll over the adverts! Everything from sweets to specs!
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Mr. Funktastic was a gang leader in Bulletproof Monk.  His hideaway was in the underground subways.  I think this is the one you mean.
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Yes, I have. He is an Indian shaman. He told me that his name should only be known to me and not to share it with others. I was involved in a serious vehicle accident while serving in the Army. The accident occurred north of El Paso, TX on a small military range in New Mexico. I was thrown from the vehicle as it flipped over. For the next 5 days, I was awake and talking in the hospital trauma ward. But, I have no memory of those 5 days. That is except for one thing. I had a re-occurring dream, or at least I thought it was a dream. I was standing out in the middle of the desert watching a burial take place. Next to me stood me spirit guide. We watched without saying a word as two men brought the body of a deceased man to a place in front of us. The mans body was carried on a man made stretcher made of wood & animal skins. The stretcher was placed on top of four - 6' long poles, one pole at each corner. Then the men moved away. The shaman and I would turn and look at each other now & then. Still no words were spoken. Then, another man walked over to the body with a torch in his hand. He set the body ablaze. We watched as the body was consumed by fire. It was then that I realised. The body on the stretcher...was me. This whole dream repeated itself time & time again until I finally awkoe from fog that my mnd was in due to the accident. The whole dream sequence was shown to me as a way to tell me that my life was beginning again and I would be going down a new path. I now refer to that time in my life as my "phoenix phase". Thank you to my guide for helping me through a difficult transition.
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He was in the movie but not sure what his charcter was. see the link below to find out for sure.
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Hi marllis,\nI met the stuntman once, a few weekends ago. I was walking to the corner market for a loaf of bread when I had to pass by a neighborhood church. I was somewhat acquainted with the structure as it was always mentioned in the newspaper's community section. Known as "The loft," folks would gather there on Thursday evenings for poetry readings. \nHowever, this day happened to be a Saturday afternoon and a pair of gentlemen greeted me as I walked by. They invited me inside to sample an hour of their presentation. Ok, I went inside and found myself to be a prospective new recruit for their brand of religion. \n\nMost of the pews were filled with hooded monks chanting a haunting rhythm. There were others who like me, were wearing their regular denims. The service began like most others that church-goers would be familiar with. A grand master of ceremonies led the group through some songs and gave a sermon. Near the end of the hour it was time for their ritual of "laying on of the hands." Some of the parishioners would come forward and ask for prayers for their ailments or for a sick grand mum who fell down in the tub. All the hooded dudes whose faces could not readily be seen would all place a hand on the person and their combined energies were presumed to have a strength and expedite a solution to the problem. \n\nOK now, there was another new guy in the pews who was watching eagerly. I recognized stuntman1967 from a wanted poster viewed earlier at the post office. When he saw a chance, he approached the ring of conspirators and described how he was always moving around and never able to settle down. The hooded goons closed in upon him, all to make a physical connection. The master of ceremonies began a prayer, a dogmatic mix of logic and pure hocus-pocus. I immediately saw the effects of the procedure as the tension went out of stuntman1967's body. When the beseeching was near an end, the master asked, "Are the brothers ready?" \n\nA suspenseful few moments passed until he almost shouted, "NOW!" \n\nOn that cue, the brothers began to pummel their hapless victim. Continually delivering blows over head and to the solar plexus until stuntman1967 was down on the floor getting stomped. After another minute, the grand Pooh-Bah decided the treatment administered was sufficient to induce a relaxing calm that would assuage the nervousness of stuntman1967 for a long, long time. \n\nI can't say for certain if stuntman1967 got the comeuppance he deserved as I had a loaf of bread to buy and some other errands to do that day. I hope for you marllis, that you do find a sense of closure to this difficult episode of life. \n\n-viqueur
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About a year ago it was revealed, on this man's death bed, that he and either another family member or a friend, back in the 1970's made a plaster cast of a large foot and make the entire story up.  It was a big controversy, so the answer would be "no" Bigfoot is not real.\n\nHave a lovely rest of the evening.
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he was a mythical character.
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Good question, but a tough one to answer.\n\nThe short, short answer is it just happened. \n\nThe longer more elaborate answer is that Siddhartha Gautama, then man who became the historic Buddha, spent years studying with many Religious masters including Brahmin hermits and ascetic monks. It is recorded that he surpassed his teachers in his learning and skills, yet he didn’t find what he was searching for...An end to suffering. Gautama attempted to find enlightenment through complete deprivation of worldly goods, including food, and became a complete ascetic.  However, he still found no answer to his questions. So, after discarding asceticism and concentrating on meditation, Gautama discovered what we today call the Middle Way; a path of moderation away from the extremes of self-indulgence and Asceticism. Then, sitting under a pipal tree (a type of fig tree) he vowed not to arise until he had found the truth he had been searching for. Some time later, under the tree, now called the Bodhi tree, Siddhartha Gautama experienced enlightenment and became "The Perfectly Self-Awakened One", the Buddha! (Sammasambuddha)\n\nBecause of the time period, he would not have had "books" but he did spend a great deal of time studying. However, these studies did not teach him about enlightenment, and he was not looking to be 'enlightened' so to speak. In fact, you could say that his 'lessons' before he achieved enlightenment, taught him what NOT to do. He was just looking for simple answers.  It just to happened that the answer was enlightenment. \n\nI hope this helped.
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No, and if he can demosntrate it under some fairly simple conditions to gaurentee he doesn't cheat he can collect a million bucks from JREF and about the same form several other skeptic organistaions.\n\nI know Bhuddist monks eschew welath, but they also have a duty to accept charitable contributions, which Randi is offering.\n\nThis is a fraud. 8 months in meditation without food? Possible though incredibly dangerous. Wihout water? Sheer nonsense.
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Hi Rosario,\nI met the RomeoB.Liwag once, a few weekends ago. I was walking to the corner market for a loaf of bread when I had to pass by a neighborhood church. I was somewhat acquainted with the structure as it was always mentioned in the newspaper's community section. Known as "The loft," folks would gather there on Thursday evenings for poetry readings.\nHowever, this day happened to be a Saturday afternoon and a pair of gentlemen greeted me as I walked by. They invited me inside to sample an hour of their presentation. Ok, I went inside and found myself to be a prospective new recruit for their brand of religion.\n\nMost of the pews were filled with hooded monks chanting a haunting rhythm. There were others who like me, were wearing their regular denims. The service began like most others that church-goers would be familiar with. A grand master of ceremonies led the group through some songs and gave a sermon. Near the end of the hour it was time for their ritual of "laying on of the hands." Some of the parishioners would come forward and ask for prayers for their ailments or for a sick grand mum who fell down in the tub. All the hooded dudes whose faces could not readily be seen would all place a hand on the person and their combined energies were presumed to have a strength and expedite a solution to the problem.\n\nOK now, there was another new guy in the pews who was watching eagerly. I recognized RomeoB.Liwag from a wanted poster viewed earlier at the post office. When he saw a chance, he approached the ring of conspirators and described how he was always moving around and never able to settle down. The hooded goons closed in upon him, all to make a physical connection. The master of ceremonies began a prayer, a dogmatic mix of logic and pure hocus-pocus. I immediately saw the effects of the procedure as the tension went out of RomeoB.Liwag's body. When the beseeching was near an end, the master asked, "Are the brothers ready?"\n\nA suspenseful few moments passed until he almost shouted, "NOW!"\n\nOn that cue, the brothers began to pummel their hapless victim. Continually delivering blows over head and to the solar plexus until RomeoB.Liwag was down on the floor getting stomped. After another minute, the grand Pooh-Bah decided the treatment administered was sufficient to induce a relaxing calm that would assuage the nervousness of RomeoB.Liwag for a long, long time.\n\nI can't say for certain if RomeoB.Liwag got the comeuppance he deserved as I had a loaf of bread to buy and some other errands to do that day. I hope for you Rosario, that you do find a sense of closure to this difficult episode of life.\n\n-Mason
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There was no such person as Yeshua ben Nazareb.  It is a fictional being, invented by committee 1700 years ago, a retelling of other "saviours" from other religions.  I'll borrow my own words from another posting:\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ahd8J7EE5iH6xqL_.MlWehLsy6IX?qid=1006060402294\n----------------------------------------\nThe word "christ" is a corruption of the ancient Greek word "christos", or saviour, and that word is itself a corruption of the Hindu god Krishna.\n\nThere have been more than a dozen "saviours" predating christian mythology, most of them borrowing from each other. You'll also notice that their years of origin go east (oldest) to west (newest), following the "Silk Road" from China between 600 BCE (2600 years ago) until 200 CE.\n\nKrishna\nBuddha\nOsiris \nMithras\nDionysus\nHeracles\n\nAmong many others. Most were born shortly after the winter solstice (Dec. 22), most were born to virgins screwed by a "god", and most "suffered" before they "died" and "went to heaven". \n\nIt's the same stupid fairy tale, regurgitated and retold with local bits added on as it went place to place.\n----------------------------------------\n\nHere's question you won't have an answer for: If you jeebus was such a troublemaker in the land of Palestine, why do the Roman's written records of their occupation make no mention of such a person nor do the dozens of writers from that time, whose words we still have today (eg. Pliny the Elder), not make any mention of such a person?\n\nNobody talked about "jeebus" because "jeebus" wasn't there.  No such person ever existed.
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Let's see... Before he left to become the Buddha he was rich and lived in a palace surrounded by beautiful woman. I doubt he needed to masturbate with that much tail hanging around.\n\nThen he got married and had a kid, so you know he was tapping some @$$ as some point in time.\n\nMy guess is that he eventually realized that woman were more trouble then he could handle and that is why we went looking for a like of solitude without woman to hound him and cause him grief.
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He's Jesus, not a Sith Lord.\n\n(Yoda vs. Jesus.   Hmmm....)
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Yes. He is believed to be hiding in a mountainous region in western Pakistan. He is heavily protected by warlords in the region. He is rumored to be no longer calling the shots and is a figurehead or ceremonious/ symbolic leader. His communications have been almost completely severed. He may be in poor health and may be on dialysis as he does have kidney problems. It has been rumored that he was killed in a somewhat recent powerful earthquake in Pakistan. I believe that source was from the Pentagon. But that has been widely disputed because he released somewhat recent tapes filled with military and spiritual rhetoric.
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Not "physically" anymore. We killed HIM 2000 years ago. But, yes He is still around for those of us who will believe in Him.