He drew thousands of visitors and media attention by spending months in meditation. Nicknamed the Buddha Boy, he began his meditation on May 16, 2005. He reportedly disappeared from the hollow tree where he had been meditating for months on March 16, 2006, but was found by some followers a week later. He told them he had left his meditation place, where large crowds had been watching him, "because there is no peace". He then went his own way and reappeared elsewhere in Nepal on December 26, 2006, but left again on March 8, 2007. On March 26, 2007, inspectors from the Area Police Post Nijgadh in Ratanapuri found Bomjon meditating inside an underground chamber of about seven square feet. Other News:Energy Department chief of UCPN-Maoist Leelamani Pokhrel accused that India was signing the agreement to seize Nepal’s waters. The agreement will affect in long term, and it should not be signed, he said.CPN- Maoist Politburo Member and Energy Department Chief Dharmendra Banstola also said the agreement was harmful to Nepal and should not be signed. Former State Minister for Water Resources and RPP Spokesperson Thakur Prasad Sharma, and leftist intellectual Sonamsingh Sherpa said Nepal should not sign the agreement that only benefits India.
