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  I take a walk.

  The level of noise, energy, and squalor of Katmandu makes even the poorest section of the most wild-ass American city seem placid and urban-planned. Some guys squat in a trash-strewn field, inexplicably beating the crap out of what looks like purple cotton candy. A woman whose face has been burned or torn off walks past me, running some small errand, an errand made heartbreaking by the way she carries herself, which seems to signify: I'm sure this will be a very good day! Here is a former Pepsi kiosk, now barbed-wired and manned by Nepalese soldiers armed for Maoists; here a Ping-Pong table made of slate, with brick legs. I cross a mythical bleak vacant lot I've seen in dreams, a lot surrounded by odd Nepali brick high-rises like a lake surrounded by cliffs, if the lake were dry and had a squatting, peeing lady in the middle of it. Averting my eyes, I see another woman, with baby, and teeth that jut, terrifyingly, straight out of her mouth, horizontally, as if her gums had loosened up and she had tilted her teeth out at ninety degrees. She stretches out a

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  Ram Bahadur Bomjon

  Nepalese religious leader

  Ram Bahadur Bomjon
  Born	1989 or 1990 (age 35–36) Nepal
  Nationality	Nepalese
  Other names	Palden Dorje, Buddha Boy
  Parents	Bir Bahadur Tamang Maya Devi Tamang

  Ram Bahadur Bomjon (Sanskrit: राम बहादुर बम्जन; born 1989 or 1990,^[1] sometimes spelled Bomjan, Banjan, or Bamjan), previously known as Palden Dorje (his monastic name) is an ascetic from Ratanapuri, Bara district, Nepal who gained widespread attention and media popularity because of perceived semblances to Gautama Buddha, leading to claims that he is a reincarnation of Gautama Buddha.

  Bomjon's followers have claimed that he meditates for months without eating or sleeping.^[2] Buddhist scholars have disputed these claims.^[3]

  In June 2024, Bomjon was convicted on charges of child sexual abuse.^[4][5]

  Biography

  In May 2005, the 15-year-old Bomjon left his home near the Indian border after a dream in which a god appeared to him and told him to do