A resident of Nepal, Ram Bahadur Bomjon became famous in 2005 as "Buddha Boy".
Then he was 15 years old (according to other sources 17) and once the villagers found him sitting and meditating under the Buddha tree.
Believers began to flock to this village to see with their own eyes the "reincarnation of Gautama Buddha", and then the world media began to write about a cute teenager meditating day after day without a break for food and sleep.
Despite the great attention of the press, very little personal information about this guy was found out. Someone reported that his real name was Palden Dorje and he came from the village of Ratanapuri.
Beomjon's army of worshipers multiplied exponentially. Legends were made about him that he allegedly meditated for 9 months in 2005 without stopping. He was also directly called Buddha, which he denied: "I have no Buddha energy, pass it on to people, I am only at the level of Rinpoche (a popular Tibetan lama)."
In 2006, the boy-Buddha suddenly disappeared somewhere, and in subsequent years he then appeared in public, again meditating or reciting mantras, or disappeared again.
The notoriety around him began to appear in 2010. First, he attacked 17 local residents, beating them and accusing them of disrupting his meditation, and in 2012 the police released a resident of Slovakia from the camp of Bomjan fans, who was forcibly held and beaten there.
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In September 2018, Bomjan was accused of raping an 18-year-old nun, and he allegedly carried out this violence against her for 2 years.
And just a few days ago, the world media reported that the police are investigating the mysterious disappearance of a family of four, which was part of a group of his believing fans and permanently resided in his ashram (hermit village).
After these accusations, the 28-year-old "Buddha Boy" suddenly disappeared somewhere again and the police were unable to trace him.
According to local sources, reports of violence and lawlessness, including sexual violence, are regularly received from the Bomjan ashram.
All this resembles not just a group of fans, but an organized sect.