tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15823064501361334242024-03-12T17:55:13.909-07:00News NepalThe Honest Posthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04428591797931132357noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1582306450136133424.post-55509656334736905912015-05-07T13:21:00.000-07:002015-05-07T13:28:16.717-07:00Nepal Earthquake leaves thousands of girls and women vulnerable to human sex traffickers<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Thousands of girls and women who have survived the quake are now facing the another threat from human traffickers. Tens of thousands of girls are now being targeted and human traffickers are trying to lure the victim to brothels mostly in India.</div>
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According to UN and local NGOs, around 12000 to 15000 girls are trafficked each year and taken overseas to India, South Korea and as far as to South Africa as well.</div>
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One of the local health workers Rashmita Shashtra quotes " 'People here are now desperate and will take any chance. "</div>
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'There are spotters in the villages who convince family members and local brokers who do the deal. We know who they are.'</div>
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Last month’s quake killed more than 3,000 people in Sindhupalchok, and left hundreds of thousands homeless.<br />
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Jason Burke, from the newspaper, also spoke to a woman called Sita, 20, who told how she was abducted from her home in Sindhupalchok, a village near Kathmandu last year.</div>
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She said she was forced to have unprotected sex with up to 30 a day, every day, for a year at a brothel in India.</div>
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She was rescued last year, was taken by an uncle “for a job” in India. Her parents, who are subsistence farmers and illiterate, believed assurances she would have a good job and be able to send back her wages.</div>
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The uncle who abducted Sita was murdered by a contract killer. Her parents remain unaware of exactly what happened to her, though her brothers have found out. They have now disowned her. Victims of sexual violence are frequently ostracised in south Asia, where they are seen as having brought shame on their community.</div>
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Sita lives in a secret shelter run by Shakti Samuha. She does not know what has happened to her parents in the earthquake. For many days, communications to her remote village were cut. When she managed to get a line through to a brother, he refused to acknowledge her. “He said he had no sister and I had called a wrong number,” Sita said.</div>
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The Honest Posthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04428591797931132357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1582306450136133424.post-77685183817618504672013-10-04T23:23:00.001-07:002013-10-05T10:04:14.273-07:00Ram Bahadur Bomjon aka Buddha Boy Pays Nrs150,000 for Chartered Helicopter<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Ram Bahadur Bomjon chartered a helicopter to reach Sindhupalchowk district on September 20th,2013.According to local news source, Ram Bahadur bomjon has been staying in cottage at Todke Bhir in Badegau VDC.<br />
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“The animals were brought for security purposes,” said Ram Chandra Khadka, adding, “Food for us will be managed for now by locals.” </div>
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More than 500 Local villagers there came to see Ram bahadur Bomjon as soon as the news spread that he came here for meditation.</div>
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Ram Bahadur Bomjon who has been in media for all the wrong doing recently said to villagers of Badegau VDC that knowledge and salvation alone were the greatest religion in the world before going to Meditation.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1582306450136133424.post-64620217369138956832013-09-07T11:43:00.000-07:002013-09-09T03:34:56.774-07:00Human Skeleton<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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supposed to be kept at the residence of Nepalese people. However, when it is
turned into a souvenir piece, it could be kept at the drawing room also as a
rare show piece. But it can be seen at
the non Nepalese residence. Of course, it sounds funny to hear that even
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Magicians and Tantrics carry all the time
with them human skulls and bones for
purposes of performing magic or tantrict works. As per the custom of the Nepalese community the dead
body is cremated. According to the
Nepalese Hindu or Buddhist custom the dead body
is completely destroy and burnt into ashes. After that the remaining
ashes are thrown into the river which gives the departed soul heavenly peace. While
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A decorated human skeleton is expensive
costing about five to eight thousand Nepalese Rupees per piece at the market price. When it
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during 1995. But
decorated skeletons of monkey and other animals cost around two to three thousand Nepalese rupees and
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actually these souvenir pieces are not
shown interested by the Asian
tourists. But foreign tourists are much more interested in the decorated human
and animals skeletons These days if some one
interested for the decorated human skeleton souvenir piece and willing pay one million
rupees it is not possible to available in the touristic souvenir shops. So no body wants bare risk for selling those restricted items, a sop woner said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, the Nepalese government has
prohibited selling on human
decorated human skeleton and exporting them (human skeleton) out of the country. But artistically
decorated human skeletons was not restricted
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In early
1995 the decorated human skeletons freely available at handicrafts shops
and tourists souvenir at roadside shops.
These are sold as rare souvenir pieces.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During those days there was
no restriction on human skeleton business later it became very strict by the law. The police at
Thankot check post started seriously watching sucn (human Shelton smuggling) and began arrested some people
those who are involve in smuggling of human skulls. The smugglers people are mostly
from the country's Terai belt. The news about
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sites. They (human skulls smugglers)
collect human skulls from the pyres site and forest areas. It was not a easy
job to smuggle human skeleton and pass
through the check post. Normally they (smugglers) hid those things (human skeletons inside
vegetables sacks and they bring them to Kathmandu market and supply to souvenir makers for
good price. It was a easy way to
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human skull is such a beautiful work of art. The art work
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customer. But in Nepal people never keep such thing even a decorated human
skulls as show pieces at home. However decorated animal skulls are kept in
drawing rooms as a souvenir show pieces.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1582306450136133424.post-41916947042828969092013-04-09T08:36:00.002-07:002013-04-09T09:12:27.080-07:00The Legend Of Goddess Kumari<span style="text-align: justify;">The Tradition of worshiping God
and Goddesses has been existing from the early Human civilization. Throughout
the world, People have been worshiping both Divine Mortal God and Divine
Spiritual God. Similarly, even today, in some part of the world, People have
been worshiping Living god. As such practice comes from Nepal and India where
there exist tradition of worshiping young pre-pubescent girls called “Kumari”.
The word Kumari derives from Sanskrit word meaning “ Virgin “ which only
includes unmarried young girls in Nepal and India. Kumari is name given to
young Virgin Girl who is considered to be the God where Hindu Mythological
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In Nepal, Kumari is worshiped as
living god and is selected from Nepalese Specific Caste – Newar Clan ( Shakya
or Bajracharya community). Kumari is worshiped by Hindhus and Nepali Buddhist
but not by Tibetan Bhuddist. Kumari is considered to be resided by Goddess
Durga until she menstruates. After that she is considered impure and Goddess
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There are different Kumaris
throughout the Nepal where people install Kumari among the Newari Girls and
Worship as Living Goddess but the best known Kumari among Kumaris is Royal
Kumari from Kathmandu and she is kept in Kumari Ghar (House).The current Kumari
is Matina Shakya and she has been living the life of Goddess Kumari since 2008.</div>
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However, Eligibility criteria to
be selected as Kumari are tough and Rigorous and one must pass different test
to be considered as Kumari. Basic criteria to be Kumari is that she should be
unmarried and Virgin and must not have any injury or accident marks on her body.
She should belong to Newar shakya clan, she should be in good health and never
ever has and is suffering from any diseases, and In addition, she must not have
lost any teeth or shed any blood from her body. After passing some of these
basic criteria, they are further examined by high priest. Furthermore, her hair
and eyes should be black, dainty Hands and legs. Moreover, she should have
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The tradition of worshiping Kumari dates back to 6<sup>th</sup> century. However officially the Kumari
tradition begun during 17<sup>th</sup> century. There are many evidence and
facts of how the tradition of worshiping Kumari started. Among many evidence,
the most popular one is that of Jay Prakash malla,the Last Nepalese King of
Malla Dynasty. According to legend, King was visited by Red Serpent who happens
to Goddess Durga visited him every night in his Chamber to play the Game of
Dice which is also called “Tripasa” in native Nepali Language. However, Goddess
Durga forbided the King not to tell about this meeting to anyone but King’s
wife became suspicious about the whereabouts’ of her husband during the night and
she followed him to Chamber. As she approached the chamber, she saw Goddess
Durga and her Husband both indulging in Game of Dice. As Goddess Durga found
that the King’s wife came to know about their secret meeting, she was angered
and told king that if He wants to see her again or protect his Kingdom than
from now onward she will only appear in the form of young virgin girl. Since
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during the reign of King Trailokya malla where Goddess Durga and King played
Dice in his chamber.However,One night King made Sexual offer to Goddess and She
was filled with rage and stopped visiting him.Filled with regret, King pleaded
Goddess to return and finally she returned but in the form of young girl from
malla dynasty.Hence, according to the legend, the tradition of worshiping Kumari was started.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Sadhus (holymen or godmen) are respected for their status of holiness in Nepal and India. A large number of Indian Sadhus visit Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, to pay homage to Lord Shiva at Pashupatinath temple especially on the auspicious occasion of Mahashivaratri day (the great night of Lord Shiva).</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">During the Mahashivaratri day the Sadhus are treated as guests and provided with free of cost </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">foods, marijuana, hemp, fuel wood for the Dhuni (ritual altar fire ) and shelter in and around </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Pashupatinath temple premises. The visiting Sadhus are taken care of by the Nepalese </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">authorities concerned . After the Mahashivaratri day they are sent off with some money </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">for covering the travel expenses to reach their destination in India.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Sadhus can be seen smoking marijuana and hemp for religious purposes and live happy </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">at the Pashupatinath temple premises. Mahashivaratri day is observed as a festival and a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">sacred and big day in Nepal and India.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Marijuana, hemp and hashis are stricly prohibited for business transaction in Nepal. But </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">during the Mahashivratri day the Sadhus are freely provided with marijuana and hemp openly </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">for religious purposes. It is not allowed to the general people to smoke such things in public.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The devotees and the Sadhus smoke Marijuana and hemp called '' Kakad'' in their language.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The general people those who are addict of smoking of marijuana and hemp are known as </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">''Ganjadi". Those ganjadi ( smoking hemp or marujuana lovers) join in religious prayer </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(Bhajan) on the special occasion and they are serve free of cost smoking of Kakad.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The cultivation of marijuana is strictly prohibited by the Nepalese government but </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">it is grown extensively in the Terai belt (northern Nepal-India border) or in remote forest </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">areas in the Nepal and India.Time and again the TV and newspapers report about destroying </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">large quantity of the marijuana and hemp by the Army, Police and Social Workers.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Sadhus are also called Babajis and Sanyashis, Rishimuni too, who renounce all earthy property </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">and sex life. And they live in caves, forest areas and temples in Nepal and India. The Sadhus </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">are Hindu by religion and they are seen at the various temples mostly at Pashupatinath </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">temple's premises in Kathmandu.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Nepal does not have a large number of the Sadhus whereas there are over six million </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sadhus of different sects in India alone. The Sadhus are categorically divided as Nagaababa, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Aghoribaba, Sadhu and Sanyashi. Nagababas live naked. They never shave and wear matted </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">hair (thick locks-jata) and carry trishul (trident) or Chimta. Aghoribabas claim to keep company with </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">ghosts and they live near pyres as part of their holy practice.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In Hindu culture do exist a number of paths designed to reach the Godhead. After becoming </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sadhus they give up everything, like their family and sexual attachments etc. They live on one </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">time simple meal a day. They have their own way of life-style as distinct from the life-style of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">normal people. They live in jungle, caves and temples. They live on public donation. Mainly on </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">the donation from the devotees who visit them at the temple areas. And they also move going </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">around for begging alms (viksha). They collects rice, bread, fruit, money etc as parts of the alms.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It is believed that the austerity practice by the Sadhus help them to put an end to their Karma </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(wordly destiny). Some Sadhus live in the mountain or in jungle for years at a stretch of time. During </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">those days they eat only wild fruits and roots and other tuber varieties.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Some Sadhus are good horologists and are capable of telling people's fate and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">fortune. However, the people must be very careful while dealing with them (Sadhus). It is believed </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">that if they got angry their curse will work. So the people always keep them pleased and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">satisfied.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">According to the Hindu mythology in The Ramayan and The Mahabharat, Sadhus like Valmiki, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Viswamitra and Durbasha are believed as having god like power.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The austerity of a Sadhu's life requires him to take compulsory early morning ritual bath at the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">holy river even in the snowy mountain areas. After taking their ritual bath. The Sadhus gather </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">around the Dhuni (sacred fire altar) and they offer their prayers and meditate.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sadhus live in Ashrams (hermitage) and temples even in the midst of major urban centres, huts </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">on in the edges of villages and caves in the remote mountain areas. Others keep moving in </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">perpetual pilgrimage without staying for a long time at one place. Some others live in large </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">and common sacred abode called ''Math''.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A Sadhu occupies a unique and important place in the Hindu society, particularly in a village </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">''Math"' and small town and they are closely tied to tradition. In addition to their giving religious </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">instruction and blessings to lay people, the Sadhus are often called on to adjudicate disputes </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">among different religious sects and they also deal with family disputes. The Sadhus are also </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">regarded as those who explain the philosophy of Hinduism whose aim is to help men and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">women attain to enlightenment and salvation of the soul from the cycle of birth and death.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In early 1970 - Youngsters in the western countries were inspired by a Sadhu’s free life-style. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A large number of people from Europe and the United States of America had started to follow </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">the life-style of Sadhus. During those days, they were known as ''Hippies'' who had been </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">visiting Nepal and India and other Asian countries. They used to dress like Sadhus smoking </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">marijuana, hemp and hashish and they walk barefoot and the male with long hair or wear matted </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">hair, thereby spending their life in a happy manner. Hippies use to smoking marijuana as it is </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">a gift (prasad) of Lord Shiva and before amoking marijuana they used to say ''Jaya Shambhu".</span></b></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1582306450136133424.post-24518477007893810812012-12-01T01:23:00.001-08:002012-12-01T08:41:08.892-08:00An Untold Tale of Gurkhas<h2>
<b>"If a Man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or he is Gurkha."</b></h2>
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Gurkha are originally from Nepal, who are enlisted in British army.The Name "Gurkhas" originated during Gurkha war(1814-1816) when British were defeated and impressed with the Gorkhali soldiers who at that time only fought with khukuri ( Long Knives ) but still managed to defeat highly trained and advanced British soldiers.</div>
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Gurkhas then and now are still widely known for their Loyalty, Physical strength, orderliness, courage, self sufficiency, endurance to fight persistently in the battle field with military strength, tenacity and resilience.In the past, it was tradition and as well as honor for Gurkhas to return from battle with his khukuri tasted the Blood of an enemy and if that's not the case then the owner of the khukuri must cut himself before returning to the camp.However,fortunately its not the case now.The Gurkhas are identified by Victorians as the"Martial Race" possessing masculine quality for strength and toughness.<br />
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Since Gurkhas hails from Nepal and the country being multi-ethnic country, the place for Gurkhas are always dominated by 4 ethnic race ; Gurung, Rai, Magar and and Limbus. Every year about 30,000 young men From Nepal compete to become gurkhas but out of the total number, only 200 are recruited.The Selection Process for Gurkha Army is considered as one of the toughest Procedures of the world where one of the task for an instance will be Running uphill carrying 70lbs Stone in Basket for an hour continuously.<br />
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Tracing the Genesis of Gurkhas soldier, the birth of Gurkhas was from hill-town region of Gorkha which is one of the district or part of Nepal.But according to Legend, the Name "Gurkhas" was not derived from the place they came from (Gorkha ) but rather during the 8th century one of the Hindu saint-warrior who is known as Guru Gorakhnath gave the soldiers ( Gurkhas ) curved Bladed Knife which we call it khukuri.<br />
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More than 200 years ago, British soldiers serving in East India Company interfered with fearless soldiers of Gorkha or Gurkhas.After they fought from 1814-1816 the battle finally came to an end but with mutual respect for each other where the British soldiers agreed to recruit the Gurkhas in their army.Both party signed an agreement with the conclusion of Battle.<br />
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One of the soldiers in British army during Gurkha war described Gurkhas - <i>" I never saw more steadiness or bravery exhibited in my life. Run they would not, and of death they seemed to have no fear, though their comrades were falling thick around them".</i></div>
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During First World War, more than 200,000 Gurkhas served in the war under British Army where some 20,000 Gurkhas soldiers were dead.Due to their Bravery and no fear of death, it was said the Gurkhas was lined up at the first during the war.Most of the Gurkhas served in India where as others were assigned in France,Flanders,Egypt, Palestine and Mesopotamia..<br />
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During Second World War, more than 250,000 Gurkhas again served in the war under British Army and 32,000 Gurkhas lost their lives in the war.<br />
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After the world war ended and India and Pakistan were independent, Gurkhas were divided between Britain and India.At present, apart from India and Britain, Gurkhas also serves in Hongkong, Malaysia, Cyprus, Sierra Leone,Iraq and Afghanistan. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Prince Harry of Britain With Gurkhas</span></b><br />
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In 2007-08, Prince Harry , the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales and third in line of the succession to the throne during his 10 weeks deployment in Afghanistan stayed with Gurkhas.During his stay in Afghanistan with Gurkhas, He was made an honorary Gurkha by fearsome Gurkhas. They gave him their trademark signature weapon "Khukuri" to the Prince as ultimate tribute.<br />
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Prince Harry stated <i><b>"When you know you are with the Gurkhas I think there's no safer place to be, really," </b></i><br />
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One of the Gurkhas Captain YamBahadur Rana said : <i>"We are very lucky to have a prince on our team working with us.</i><br />
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Prince Charles,Prince of Wales, thanked about 200 Gurkhas for looking after Prince Harry.<br />
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He along with his member of Bodhi Shrawan Dharma Sangh and 15 foreign devotees has been staying there. No visitors have been allowed to meet Bomjon until road linking the village with the highway has been completed.<br />
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the sea level. This temple is significant from religious, cultural, historic archaeological
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><b><i>Changu Narayan temple</i></b> is decorated with artistic
woodcarving and stone sculptures representing different gods and goddesses. A
pagoda style temple is one of the oldest one dating back to 14th century AD. The
temple was built by King Hari Dutta Varma in 322 AD. This falls into one of the seven world heritage
categories of the Kathmandu valley, <b><i>Changu Narayan Temple</i></b> also is on the UNESCO’s
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This is a fantastic center for the
woodcarving and stone - works lovers. The unique and beautiful stone and wood
works are seen in each and every corner in and around the temples premises. The
woods and stones art works the constitute pride and culture of Lichhavi
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with the demon king named Changu, killed a Brahmin named Sumati. Guru
Sukracharya, the preceptor of the dead Brahmin was angry with Vishnu and cursed
him that he will be beheaded by a Brahmin in the future. After this incident, Lord Vishnu lived in
Champak (Micheli a Campaca) forest. A Brahmin named Sudarshan lived in a
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says that the Brahmin could notice the diminished amount of milk being brought
to him by his cowherd. When asked the reason for that cowherd told him that the
bucket lost half of milk while passing through the Champak Village. To solve
the mystery, the angry Brahmin cut the Champak tree and beheaded Lord Vishnu,
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The temple of <b><i>Changu Narayan</i></b> remains a
milestone in Nepalese temple architecture. It is one of the best specimens of
multi roofed style architecture of Nepal, with rich embossed works. This two storied
roof temple stands on a high plinth of bricks and stone. The four entrances to
this temple are guarded by life size pairs of animals such as elephants, lions,
griffins on either side of the entrance. Within
myth lions creatures like lions ,a combination of man, bird and beast
which icons are carved within the wooden bracket in the corner supporting
the horizontal beams which support the
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placed at the right side of the main
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in the unique and beautiful stones images.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">(Sources Changu Narayan Village Development Committee (CNVDC) brochure guide book)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">One of the proud collections of <b><i>Changu Narayan</i></b>
complex is the installation of a human faced bird, a Garud on Vishnu, with its
knee in a posture of genuflection and (Namaste) folded both palms and it is
donated by the king Manadev in the year 464 AD. He is a mount and a great
devotee of Vishnu. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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are placed the next to the Garud statue. South West of the shrine,a temple is
dedicated to Chinnamasta of the Shakti cult and was constructed, during 17th
century AD. According to Hindu mythology, Goddess Parvati offered her own head
to feed her hungry companies and it became famous as Chinnamasta. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The one magnificent work is that of the
sculpture of Tribikram, the one her head cut off a Vishnu of 8th century
AD. This sculpture depicts the scene of
the popular Hindu myth of lord Vishnu and his devotee king Bali. The lower
panel of the statue is depicted in the poses of bestowment by Bali bowing to
Vishnu. There aren’t many icons of soft Tribikram Vishnu exist in the Kathmandu
valley. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The icon of Narshimha is an outstanding work
of the 10th century. The theme of the icon is to abolish sins from the face of
the earth. God Vishnu incarnated as a form of half man and half lion creature
in order to kill the demon King Hiranyakashyapu without using any weapon or arms
but by the scratch of nails. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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in the temple in the main entrance of temple for the urgency period of drought.
It dates back to some ancient period. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Kilewshor Mahadev was sanctum in the 17th century AD. The temple is famous for
its erotic motifs. Forming the lower part of struts. The four faced Shivaling
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1582306450136133424.post-84999284107700340192012-08-31T08:05:00.000-07:002013-10-05T09:59:10.640-07:00Who is Ram Bahadur Bomjon "Buddha Boy"<span style="text-align: justify;">The rules of Nature can neither
be changed nor be challenged and when it comes to Human’s physical form, it is
deeply guided by the simple truth that no man can live without food and water.
If we are to challenge this law to some extent and search the history then even
superior being like </span><b style="text-align: justify;"><i>Gautam Buddha</i></b><span style="text-align: justify;"> succeeded to survive for 49 days without food
and water under Bodhi tree in search for enlightenment.</span><br />
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Looks like history have once
again repeated as Twenty two years old <b><i>Ram Bahadur Bomjon</i></b> born on April 10,
1990 in Ratnapuri village, Bara District of Nepal is believed to have undergone
fasting for more than 6 months during the Year from 2005 to 2006.<br />
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Among the 5 sons and 4 daughters,
<b><i>Bomjon</i></b> was the third son born to Poor Farmers.His mother Mayadevi who also
shares the similar name as that of Gautam Buddha’ Mother shares the Childhood memories
of Bomjon as he was very peaceful and was fascinated seeing holy person in the
streets. In fact, <b><i>Bomjon</i></b> was different from other children around his age as he
barely spoke and spent most of the time alone meditating. From the age of five,
he only ate what was left over and if there was none then he would stay hungry.
He spent most of the time meditating, reading scriptures and worshiping the pipal
tree as these seems to give him pleasure.<br />
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While at Home he asked his family
members not to sacrifice animals and eat meat. He even refrain his family
members from drinking alcohol. In 2005 He disappeared from his home but soon he
was found meditating by the villagers. Everyone initially thought he had gone
ill or insane and requested to go home. Even his mother was worried and asked
him to come home but he kept his focus and continued his meditation. Once when
his older brother touched Bomjon during meditation state, his body became hot
as fire and turned red. He said to his older brother that “Please leave me or
one of us shall die”. He further added “If anyone disturbs me or my things at
midnight, I will have to meditate for 20 years, but if all goes well, I will
meditate for 6 years.”<br />
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On November 6<sup>th</sup>, 2005
Bomjon was bitten by Snake but however he continued to meditate and was able to
overcome the poison of snake. After this miraculous event, many villagers believed
that he attained enlightment.In addition; On November 11<sup>th</sup>, 2005 Bright
different ray of light seems to appear from Bomjon’s forehead while he was
meditating.<br />
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Thousands of people all over the world believes that he is
re-incarnation of Buddha and even have given him a title of “<b><i>Buddha Boy</i></b>” by his
followers. In fact, coincidently his mother also shares the same name <b><i>Mayadevi</i></b>
as that of Gautam Buddha’s Mother. They also have quietly remarked that “such
an incarnation as only occurs once in thousands of years”. However there has
been no formal declaration by Buddhist authorities as whether he is
re-incarnation of Buddha or not. In fact, Bomjon himself have said that not to
call him Buddha as he doesn’t possess the energy of Buddha.<br />
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Meditating motionless and Fasting
for such long period of time have really challenged the Human’s physical law
and brought the attention of scientist, investigators and even Buddhist monks
worldwide. People have tried to get closer look to Bomjon to study whether he
really have endured to survive without eating and drinking for such longer
period of time but the committee “Bodhi Shrawan Dharma Sangh “who is in charge
of looking after him for his protection have not allowed visitors to get any
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>“The Boy with Divine powers” –
Discovery News Channel</u></span></div>
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In January 2006, Crew from
Discovery channel filmed Bomjon continuously for 96 hours day and night from a distance.
The Crew wanted to find out whether he had been given food supplies secretly
and whether he is just another hoax but to their surprise, during 96 hours of
filming he not only abstained himself from eating any solid or liquid substance
but even there was no any sign of physical dehydration or malfunction. After
filming Bomjon, Discovery channel have telecasted 46 mins of documentary called
“The Boy with Divine powers” based on Bomjon.<br />
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<b><u>Recent Images of Ram Bahadur Bomjon aka Buddha Boy </u></b><br />
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Ram Bahadur Bomjon (Buddha Boy ) moved to Sindhuli on June 15 from Talkhoriya of Bara district.Recent Images of Ram Bahadur Bomjon has been posted below:<br />
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Ram Bahadur Bomjon accompanied by Buddhist Monk during his religious visit in Sindhuli.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ram Bahadur Bomjon(Buddha Boy) was spotted blessing his devotees in Kamalamai municipality and Rani churi VDC of Sindhuli district.</span>
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*Images extracted from ekantipur.com(<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 18px;"><b><span style="color: white;"> </span> Rajkumar Karki /eKantipur )</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Controversy surrounding Buddha
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Abstaining oneself from worldly
pleasure and indulging into meditation for such a longer period of time, where
one’s mind and soul is purely devoted to peace and harmony as well as striving
to achieve spiritual wisdom, Ram Bahadur Bomjon quite well live up to his
promise in spreading peace. However, the irony is that since few years he has
been in media but for all the wrong reasons.<br />
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In the year 2010, Ram Bahadur
Bomjon aka Buddha Boy with his followers thrashed 17 local villagers of Bara
District and held them captive nearly for 24 hours as they were accused of
disturbing His meditation. Again in the year 2012, Bomjon held two women (35
year old Slovakian woman and another Nepali Woman) hostage for 3 months. They
were accused by his followers for practicing witchcraft to disrupt Bomjon’s
meditation. Later when the news were published in media regarding the hostages
of two women, his followers set them free but threatened not to disclose
anything to media or to people during their 3 months detention. However, the
freed 44 year old Slovakian woman Zsuzsanna Takacs still admires Bomjon even
she was held captive for 3 months. She expressed that she wanted to become nun
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The violence not only stop there
but again with followers of Bodhi Shrawan Dharma Sangh obstructed vehicular
movement and clashed with local people of Bara district for not issuing
Bomjan’s citizenship in the name of “Bodhi Shrawan Dharma Sangh” which is
against the law. However the members of the group managed to issue fake
citizenship certificate but later it was cancelled after legal authority found
out this incident. After this event, he held his 12 year old sister Ranjita as
hostage after his mother Mayadevi did not allow him and his followers to hand
out her citizenship card to them which was necessary to issue Bomjon’s
citizenship and diplomatic passport. Following the incident, Bomjon’s mother
sent her two sons to free their younger sister, but again the members of Bodhi
Shrawan Dharma Sangh detained both of the brothers. However all the three
siblings were released later after the request from their mother Mayadevi.</div>
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All such terror and violence has
not only led to tarnish the image of Buddhism but also raises the question of
does Bomjon deserves to be called ”Buddha boy” and messenger of peace?<br />
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“But the world is submerged in its own selfish
aim and nobody could keep the search of soul and the super soul in their heart.
Today the world is in search of non violence and guidance in the form of
kindness.”- These are some of the preaching of Bomjon but seems like one also
needs to understand the simple fact that “Practice what you preach”.<br />
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<b>Recent Updated Article of Ram Bahadur Bomjon "Buddha Boy" [ </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">September 20th,2013 ]</span><br />
<a href="http://nepalrodi.blogspot.com/2013/10/ram-bahadur-bomjon-aka-buddha-boy-pays.html#.UlBFBzt8mSo"><b>http://nepalrodi.blogspot.com/2013/10/ram-bahadur-bomjon-aka-buddha-boy-pays.html#.UlBFBzt8mSo</b></a><br />
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<b>Recent Updated Article of Ram Bahadur Bomjon "Buddha Boy"</b><br />
<a href="http://nepalrodi.blogspot.com/2012/10/ram-bahadur-bomjon-aka-buddha-boy.html"><b>http://Nepalrodi.blogspot.com/2012/10/ram-bahadur-bomjon-aka-buddha-boy.html</b></a><br />
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