Media on Ram Bahadur Bomjon’s Controversies 2005-2017
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“Ram Bahadur Bamjan, who is said to have been continuously meditating since 2005 and has been nicknamed the Buddha Boy, has been in the news of late for all the wrong reasons.” (The Himalayan Times, Buddha Boy turns violent‚ thrashes siblings, April 3, 2012)[1]
Ram Bahadur Bomjon is a popular Nepalese Buddhist religious leader, who had achieved a celebrity status due to his motionless meditation as well as well-known controversies. From his early years of a public meditation performance in 2005 until 2012, when he had been evicted by local authorities from his ashram based in Halkhoriya Jungle, his actions had been regularly recorded in the Nepalese and the international media. The organization formed from Ram Bomjon’s devotees, Bodhi Shrawan Dharma Sangha (BSDS) (US branch) is listed among religious cults in multiple sources (1, 2,) and their guru, who is mentioned among controversial Buddhist teachers, is leading them in a tight authoritative manner. One of the tools used by religious cults is to influence the media publishing about them.[2] On 21 March 2012 five journalists, investigating the disappearance of a Slovak woman (Disappearances in India, Asia Nepal ) in his Halkhoriya Jungle compound, had been attacked by his attendants (Bamjan’s boys go unruly‚ beat up journos). In the same year the mainstream Nepalese media in English stopped to cover his further controversial activity. Only local Nepali language news media and a few expat Nepali media continued to scarcely publish about Nepal’s unusually behaving ‘Buddha Boy’.
Contents
- 1 Violence against media
- 1.1 Five Journalists Beaten Up, misbehaved (22 March 2012)
- 2 Censorship
- 3 The Setopati interview
- 4 Efforts to install the ‘Next Buddha’
- 4.1 Latest claims about Ram Bahadur Bomjon’s identity
- 5 Media as main enemy
- 6 List of online news publications
- 7 List of television publications (news shots and documentaries)
- 8 See also
- 9 References
- 10 External links
(A detailed Content list of all media articles and films is under the article!).
Violence against media
Five Journalists Beaten Up, misbehaved (22 March 2012)
“Five journalists have been beaten up and verbally abused in Bara, a district in the southern plain in the central region of Nepal on March 21, 2012.
The followers and protectors of Ram Bahadur Bamjan who is claimed to be little Buddha for his years long meditation and seclusion beat up journalists while taking photographs of Bamjan as he was being made public for sermon.
Talking to Freedom Forum’s Media Monitoring Desk, Bibhu Adhikari, reporter with the News 24 television said, “Although we (I, Resham Tiwari of Nepal Television, Binod Pyakurel of Tarai Television, Basanta Khatiwada of Ghatana Ra Bichar weekly and Prakash Lamsalof Image Television) were called to make news, some of the followers and protectors including Darshan Limbu, Bolhari Rai, and a German national* beat us, seized our cameras and damaged the reels while taking photographs about Bamjan who was being made public for sermon after meditation.” The followers of Bamjan also spoke foul on them, he said, adding that they reached to the police for help. It is the latest incident as a series of attack and threats on journalists from different quarters. The incident is condemnable as it is the incident of press freedom violation. The local administration needs to mete out action on those who beat up journalists so that it would help minimize impunity and make journalists feel justice”.[3]
(*The “German national” was actually Bomjon’s Polish disciple Tomasz Henryk Tarnawski,[4] as the Himalaya TV documentary (from 9:55 min. and from 11:48 min.) and this Prateek Daily photo about the incident show.)
The article was also published on Nepal Election Channel, but the website is closed down.
Censorship
The English language Nepalese articles, television news shots and documentaries, dealing with Ram Bomjon’s controversies, had been and continue to be scrupulously deleted from their home sites on the Internet, apparently due to Ram Bomjon’s political supporters like Mani Lama, an ex health-minister of the King Gyanendra-led Government of Nepal, Chhatra Ghising and newly also a high Government employee Prem Singh Maharjan as well as due to the support from various Tamang organizations and political parties of Nepal’s indigenous people (NEFIN, AJRA[5]), as well as a few hundreds of Western followers. In October 2014 Ram Bahadur Bomjon met the late ex-Prime Minister of Nepal, Sushil Koirala. Numerous petitions[6] had been written to the Nepalese Government and human rights organizations initiated by the European and US members of the BSDS branches to stop, what is seen as a “media harassment” of their guru.
“Bomjon’s Nepali followers and supporters do not tolerate any question about his divine powers after seeing such educated foreigners consider him a god, materials about him in the international media, and the then prime minister Sushil Koirala receive khada (a holy shawl used by Buddhists) and blessings from him.”[7]
Currently very few Nepalese English online and printed media are informing about his controversial activity. Instead, the mainstream media in Nepal (for example The Himalayan Times, Ekantipur, Avenues TV) is self-censoring itself and recently some mainstream television channels even started to show Bomjon is the light of Nepal’s respected religious leader: Avenues TV News 24 Himalaya TV
Non-mainstream media articles in Nepalese like Prateek Daily, Nijdagh.com, Sourya Daily had not suffered much censorship, because the main targets of Ram Bomjon’s propaganda are foreigners and crowds of illiterate Tamang villagers, none of these belonging among the readers of Nepalese language local media. On the other hand, English written news websites of the expat Nepalese communities abroad, like Nepal-Japan, Scot Nepal etc. had been also only partially effected by the censorship (for example DC Nepal and Canada Nepal had deleted their controversial articles, possibly due to the pressure of Bomjon’s US and Canadian followers[2]).
After the mysterious deaths of two people (Manomaya Tamang, and a retired US psychologist) in the premises connected to Ram Bomjon and surrounded by his followers, there is apparently a growing need in Nepal again, to balance the one-sided cultist propaganda which is hiding his more than 10 years of controversial deeds, and to enable the wide public to make an intelligent choice, based on pragmatic, truthful and complex information. Recently, some media had attempted to break the five-year long taboo and although very carefully, did question Ram Bomjon’s actions:
The Setopati interview
Setopati Online Digital Media had published in interview with Ram Bomjon’s follower Mani Lama, who had practically confessed that Ram Bomjon had hands in the death of his own sister Manomaya Tamang (Manu), a nun, and apparently caused another person’s nervous breakdown:
“Bomjon and his followers have already started to show the tendency to go beyond the laws to remove the hurdles in their path. This tendency may develop as a threat in the long run. Bomjon has taken ‘internal action‘ against a person who had stayed together with him in the jungle in Bara, according to a follower of him. “He is roaming restlessly confused about whether to live or die,” the follower says. ‘Guru’ took the ‘internal action’ not physically but using his divine powers, the follower claims. The follower adds Bomjon’s elder sister has also faced the wrath of ‘internal action’. “She later died a painful death.” The follower says ‘Guru’ teaches physical exercise akin to martial arts to his close disciples. “Guru and the disciples leap very high. We watch dumbfounded,” he adds.”[7]
Efforts to install the ‘Next Buddha’
From the early years of Ram Bomjon’s publicity (2005), followers and various authors had been speculating if he could be the “Next Buddha” of Nepal:
The Next Buddha? Buddha Boy Tapaswi Palden Dorje – Ram Bahadur Bomjon
The Discovery Channel documentary “The Boy With Divine Powers” had accidentally played into the cards of the growing brainwashing cult to present him as a miraculous new Buddha (emphasizing his alleged inedia), and bring about a massive worship.
Ram Bahadur Bomjon had also announced himself to be the Maitreya Buddha (one of his many self-given names being Maitriya Guru). His Sangha continues to make efforts to create a spotless image of Nepal’s “New Buddha” by clearing the Internet of negative articles and replacing them with their own “news”. These efforts can be seen in creating an intriguingly similarly named “news website” (The Himalayan Voice) like the formerly critical media (The Himalayan Times) has. Articles, like that written by Joan Stanley Baker,[8] Holistic Spiritual Ecology launched in Nepal and by Kishore Sherchand The Buddha Boy’ is Nepal’s Greatest Gift to Humanity in 2500 Years are typical cult propaganda to balance the amount of controversial news.[9]
The main argument of Bomjon’s Nepalese followers is that their guru is of a similar potential as was the historic Gautama Buddha, who also had been born in Nepal: A Great beam of Light again from Nepal, a Buddha boy has been granted to a nation in Cruel civil war
An interview with Ram Bomjon’s Nepalese follower Jas Bahadur Waiba reveals the belief of the cult that their guru is the Maitreya Buddha with a miraculous global military power:
“In the future, he will be Maitreya, the next Buddha. This is a certainty. I am confident in this because I have witnessed how he mixes peace with power. He can destroy and he can create. I cannot give you all the details at this time because I have been sworn to secrecy with respect to some matters.” He later hinted, however, toward some esoteric power that could possibly render the weapons of the world completely useless.”
The Next Buddha? Buddha Boy Tapaswi Palden Dorje – Ram Bahadur Bomjon[10]
Latest claims about Ram Bahadur Bomjon’s identity
According to followers interviewed by Setopati journalists at Ram Bomjon’s World Peace Maitri Puja in Kathmandu in 2017, the growing cult is modifying its dogma about his identity from “Next Buddha”, “Maitreya” and “reincarnation of Buddha” to, currently, even Parmatma (Paramatma), actually the highest form of God in Hinduism, and a “Maha Sambodhi“, higher than Gautama Buddha:
“His followers consider him to be Parmatma (supreme soul) and above Lord Buddha.”
“But he also considers himself a Parmatma incarnated to rid the world of sufferings. He plans to unite the world through a single Maitri religion, Maitrilanguage and Maitri culture. ”
“His followers claim his level of knowledge is above that of Lord Buddha. They claim Siddhartha Gautam reached a Sambuddha (self-enlightened) state but Bomjon has attained Mahasambodhi (greater form of self-enlightenment) state.
“Some even claim he has left Sukhapati Bhawan (heavenly abode where Amitabh Buddha is said to reside) replete with amenities and bliss, and come to the earth for the good of the world. “[7]
Media as main enemy
Kishore Sherchand, an US-Nepalese follower, had been criticizing the media for covering Ram Bomjon’s deeds, and is also among those convinced that Bomjon is the coming Maitreya Buddha:
“I noticed some sort of disturbing noise. Later I discovered that some photographers and other media people were not allowed to take his pictures. Despite this, some of them were taking pictures. It learnt that the media people were not invited and none were allowed to take pictures except for those few in-house photographers because those media people were not publishing true picture of Guruji. One of the senior Sangha members said, the media always tried to send wrong messages in the past.”
“May be the government is just at “wait and see” until some kind of overwhelming pressure develops, national as well as foreign. The media by and large seem to be trying to distort his presence as a Sambodhi Dharma Guru, Maitreya Guru or any other Guru Rimpoche fearing his discourse, spiritual strength, meditation practices have become so far and wide that it could be a growing threat to others …”[11]
Such efforts to blame the media for reporting about a popular personality’s controversial deeds, and thus harming his public image, are typical for religious cults and belong to a phenomenon called the hostile media effect. The tight censorship of the controversial articles and film records about Ram Bomjon in Nepal continues until today (2017), while, in general, the country already enjoys relatively high press freedom concerning other topics. The mere amount of the already deleted Bomjon-related articles and TV documentaries from the Internet is a sign that the cult of Ram Bahadur Bomjon is trying to influence the media, breach freedom of speech and re-write his own history. Setopati recalls the consequent information gap about Bomjon, in its 2017 article:
“Little has been written about Bomjon in the Nepali media in recent years. … A few things about him have come out through audio, visual and print medium in the foreign media instead.”[7]
List of online news publications
Note: In the below list the word Nepalese signifies “Nepal-based” and the word Nepali the language of Nepal.
Nepalese online media in English (only archives, original not available)
The Himalayan Times
The Himalayan Times had been the most comprehensive source of information about Ram Bomjon’s breaching of ethics and law. Yet after the five journalists, who went to Bomjon’s Halkhoriya Jungle ashram to investigate the kidnap allegations of the two disappeared women in March 2012 (a Slovak and a Nepalese) mentioned above, had been physically attacked by the assistants of Bomjon, the vehemence of The Himalayan Times in informing about Bomjon has ceased. New articles concerning Ram Bomjon are not published anymore, and the controversial old ones had been made inaccessible, as the below list shows. The media’s internal Archives page had been not launched.
However, much older articles which show Bomjon in a good light, are still available, for example: Drive against massive animal sacrifice gathers momentumAn article re-published in 2016 as part of the series “THT 10 years ago” seems to have also escaped the self-censorship, possibly due to its rather praisingcontent, despite its sensational title: THT 10 years ago: Teen Buddha comes back armed with a sword Archive.is Archive.org
The below list is of The Himalayan Times articles describing Bomjon’s breaching of ethics or the law, what is apparently the reason that they are not available on the original media website anymore:
2010
Buddha boy shows wrath (July 24, 2010)
Police quizzes Buddha Boy over trashing locals (July 26, 2010)
2012
Bamjan’s boys go unruly, beat up journos (March 22, 2012)
Two women held captive in Bamjan’s ashram (March 26, 2012)
Bamjan’s aides free Slovak woman (March 27, 2012)
Bamjan’s captive Marichi in Lama hotel‚’severe’ (March 26, 2012)
Buddha Boy turns violent‚ thrashes siblings (April 3, 2012)
Is Buddha boy above the law? (March 30, 2012)
Bamjan’s aides yet to be charged (March 28, 2012)
VDC Secy who faked Bamjan’s birth certificate held (June 14, 2012)
Bamjan boys halt transport seeking citizenship for him (June 9, 2012)
Bamjan’s followers, cops clash (June 12, 2012)
Buddha Boy leaves Halkhoria forest (June 15, 2012)
Structures in Halkhoria forest demolished (June 28, 2012)
Buddha Boy aides beat up villagers (December 3, 2012)
Buddha Boy turns violent‚ thrashes siblings (April 3, 2012)
‘Buddha Boy’ finds his abode of peace at Sindhuli forest (July 8, 2012)
This article of The Himalayan Times starts to show the change in this media’s approach already on July 8, 2012, when they interview Darshan Limbu, the then spokesperson for Ram Bomjon, accused by the kidnapped Slovak victim of sexually assaulting her during her captivity in March 2012, in an interview for the Avenues TV and News 24 television channels at Tribhuvan Airport of Kathmandu, before leaving for Europe. In this article, Darshan Limbu downplays the brutal treatment of the victim by claiming she is “mentally disturbed”. There are also signs of trying to influence the media:
“Chairman Chhatra Ghising of Bodhi Shrawan Sangh, responsible for Bamjan’s protection, urged the mediapersons not to give any negative press coverage”.
Ekantipur
Ekantipur is the online version of Kantipur and is also behind The Kathmandu Post. This mainstream media had been informing about Ram Bomjon’s controversies among the first ones, yet after 2012 stopped. Currently it does not publish about Nepal’s ‘Buddha Boy’ anymore, and deleted most of its past articles about the topic. Although there is an internal Archive, articles connected to Ram Bomjon are not showing up in it.
For example, the article Buddha Boy sees red from July 25, 2010, which is archived on Archive.is is missing among the archived articles of Ekantipur.com for the same date. In the same time, an article which shows Bomjon is a positive light and even as himself a victim, continues to be available on Ekantipur: Religious associations demand security for Buddha Boy. Archive.org (Jul 13, 2012)
After many years of silence, recently, Ekantipur published an article about his World Peace Maitri Puja 2017 in Kathmandu, which is writing about him in great respect.
The below list of articles, however, had been describing his controversies:
Buddha Boy sees red (July 25, 2010)
24 hurt as Bamjan supporters clash with locals (June 12, 2012)
‘Buddha boy’ men ‘detain’ 2 women (March 26, 2012)
Nepal News
Slovak woman detained by Buddha Boy’s followers set free (26 March 2012)
“The woman identified just as Marichi, 35, was held along with another woman Mata Aani who hails from Sindhupalchowk three months back for “practicing witchcraft” and disturbing Bomjan’s meditation. Marichi, who was detained by members of the Bodhi Srawan Dharma Sangh (an association looking after the welfare and protection of Bomjan), has been found at Lama hotel, Simara. The whereabouts of another woman is still not known. Reports said she has a broken hand, has bruises in her body and seems to have undergone physical and mental suffering.”[12]
Buddha boy says he slapped villagers for disturbing him (27 July 2010)
Bamjan’s boys go unruly‚ beat up journos (22 March 2012)
Only quoting The Himalayan Times article
News in Nepal
Buddha boy’s follower thrash journos in Bara (March 21, 2012)
The Kathmandu Insider
Buddha boy’s disciples thrash journos (Mar 21 2012)
DC Nepal
Buddha boy Ram Bahadur Bomjan had a fight with Sathania in Bara district (2 Sep 2014)
A link to Image Channel‘s documentary is included in the article:
Times Khabar
Fight broke out between Ram Bamjan’s followers and local villagers (Sep 2 2014)
Nepalese online media in English (original still available)
Setopati
State must watch Bomjon closely (June 17, 2017)
Original Archive.is Archive.org
The Kathmandu Post
‘Buddha boy’ men ‘detain’ 2 women (Mar 25, 2012)
Original Archive.is Archive.org
Locals clash with Bamjan’s followers (Sep 2, 2014)
Original Archived.is Archive.org
My Republica
‘Buddha boy’ unrepentant (July 26, 2010)
´Buddha boy´ Ram Bahadur Bamjan has claimed that he has done nothing wrong in beating up the locals of Manaharwa, Bara, on Thursday for trying to disrupt his penance and declared that he won´t go to court for hearing. “Does a tapaswee (meditating sage) go to courts?” Bamjan asked reporters at an interaction with the media after the police took his statement in Halkhoriya forest, Bara, where he is meditating, on Sunday evening. “I abide by the law, but only the right ones. There are wrong laws too. I have done no wrong,” he insisted and added, “They disturbed me while I was meditating… tried to manhandle me. I was therefore forced to beat up them.”A group of 17 persons had lodged a formal complaint against Bamjan on Saturday morning claiming that he took them under control on Thursday when they reached the spot while looking for wild fruits and vegetables and thrashed them with an axe handle for around 22 hours before releasing them on Friday afternoon.[13]
Saved on My Republica’s archive:
Nepal Mountain News
One Foreign Other Nepali Women Made Captive in ‘new’ Buddha’s Place (March 26, 2012)
Original Archived.is Archive.org
International online media in English (original still available)
BBC
Nepal’s ‘Buddha boy’ investigated for attacking group (27 July 2010)
Original Archive.is Archive.org
The Independent
‘Buddha Boy’ reappears after year in jungle (11 November 2008)
“When Mr Bamjon first became famous reporters filmed him eating, even though his supporters said he could go without food or drink for days. He was also spotted sleeping when his followers said he was meditating in private.”[14]
PRI (Public Radio International)
Nepal police rescue Slovak woman from followers of Buddha boy
Original Archive.is Archive.org
Global Post
Nepal police rescue Slovak woman from followers of Buddha boy
Original Archive.is Archive.org
Hindustan Times
Nepal’s Boy Buddha frees Slovak hostage
Original Archive.is Archive.org
The Sydney Morning Herald
Buddha boy back, with a weapon
Origina Archive.is Archive.org
Asian Correspondent
Nepal police: Slovak saved from ‘Buddha’ followers
Original Archive.is Archive.org
News OK (Oklahoma, USA)
Nepal police: Slovak saved from ‘Buddha’ followers
Original Archive.is Archive.org
Mirror
Is this boy the new Buddha?
Original Archive.is Archive.org
Townhall
Nepal police: Slovak saved from ‘Buddha’ followers
Original Archive.is Archive.org
KTAR News, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Nepal police: Slovak saved from ‘Buddha’ followers
Original Archive.is Archive.org
The San-Diego Union-Tribune (San Diego, CA, USA)
Nepal police: Slovak saved from ‘Buddha’ followers
Original Archive.is Archive.org
Associated Press (AP)
The Associated Press had deleted its article Nepal Police Say Slovak Woman Rescued From Followers Of Man Said To Be Reincarnated Buddha but other media had re-published it, for example:
Nepal24hours
Original Archive.is Archive.org
(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press)
South Asia Tribune by SAARC International Ltd – issuu
Most US-based media had been used the Associated Press as their source for articles about Bomjon’s Slovak victim in 2012. The Washington Post had also deleted the version of the same, AP-based article and only references on blogs prove that they had existed.
Slovak online media (original still available)
Sme
Unesená Slovenka Marichi sa volá Zsuzsanna
Original Archive.is Archive.org
Pravda
Údajnú Slovenku vyslobodili z rúk stúpencov ‚prevteleného Budhu‘
Original Archive.is Archive.org
Záhadná Mariči v Nepále je Slovenka, potvrdilo ministerstvo
Original Archive.is Archive.org
Topky
Slovenka, ktorú mesiace držali v nádrži a mučili: Je to Košičanka Zuzana!
Čas
Slovenská zajatkyňa v Nepále: Mučili ma, bola som na prahu smrti!
Noviny
Únos Slovenky v Nepále! Našli ju v zúboženom stave
Original Archive.is Archive.org
Czech online media (original still available)
Lidovky
Nepálská sekta bila Slovenku, rušila gurua v meditaci
Original Archive.is Archive.org
Týden
V Nepálu našli Slovenku zajatou příznivci „malého Buddhy“
Original Archive.is Archive.org
TV Nova
Slovenka, kterou mučila sekta v Nepálu, má i české občanství
Original Archive.is Archive.org
Nepali online media (original still available)
Prateek Daily
The Birgunj-based media is a rich source of articles about Ram Bomjon’s controversies, because it is geographically near Bomjon’s Halkhoriya Junglecompound and birthplace in Bongjor settlement of Ratnapuri. Accompanying the police on numerous occasions of violence, kidnappings and taking hostages, only the Prateek Daily journalists could give a full and detailed picture of the activity of Nepal’s famous “Buddha Boy”. After Bomjon was evicted from Halkhoriya in 2012, and again, re-evicted in 2014, there are no more news about him in this daily. The newspaper has no English version.
बमजनको तपस्यास्थलमा लामो समयदेखि विदेशी र स्वदेशी दुई महिला बन्धक (March 25, 2012)
Summary: Bomjon captures Slovak Marici (Zsuzsanna Takacs) and holds her hostage in his Halkhoriya Jungle compound, allegedly torturing and beating her 3 months between 28 Dec 2011 and 24 March 2012.
तपस्वी भनिएका बमजनद्वारा आफ्नै बहिनी बन्धक कारबाईको माग गर्दै परिवारद्वारा प्रहरीमा जाहेरी (May 2012)
Summary: Ram Bomjon’s mother, Maya Devi Tamang, reporting her own son to police for keeping hostage and violence.
हलखोरिया ज·लमा तपस्यारत तपस्वीका अनुयायीले सञ्चारकर्मीलाई कुटे (March 21, 2012)
Photo shows: Armed Police Forces (APF) pacifying Tomasz Henryk Tarnawski[4] (Poland) and Nepali Bal Hari Rai after they attacked 5 journalists on the site in March 2012.
Original Archive.is Archive.org
तपस्वी भनिएका रामबहादुर बमजनका अनुयायीद्वारा चक्काजाम डुमरवाना पिलुवाका स्थानीय युवाद्वारा प्रतिकार (June 12, 2012)
Summary: Bomjon’s cult Bodhi Shrawan Dharma Sangha marches three days on Nepal’s main Mahendra Highway to protest against the authorities not giving him a diplomatic passport and a citizenship on the name “Dharma Sangha“, on June 2012. About the same incident Ekantipur informed 24 people got injured.
झूटको खेती गर्न माहिर बमजनद्वारा बोधिज्ञान प्राप्त गरेको दाबी (June 16, 2014)
Summary: Ram Bomjon’s court cases in Hetauda Court dealing with illegal forest encroachment. Decision about an arrest warrant against Bomjon and his Sangha and their actual eviction from Halkhoriya Jungle.
बमजन र उनका अनुयायीहरूले छाडेर गएका हलखोरिया क्षेत्रको बेलैमा संरक्षण गर्नुपर्नेमा जोड (June 16, 2012)
Summary: Bomjon evicted from Halkhoriya Jungle by the authorities and his concrete buildings, often used for holding and torturing hostages, dozed down.
पर्सा वन्यजन्तु आरक्षको बेवास्ताका कारण आरक्ष क्षेत्रमा बमजनका अनुयायीहरूको चहलपहल बढ्दो (Jan 30, 2016)
Summary: From November 2015 till January 30, 2016, 25 of Bomjon’s followers returned to the Halkhoriya Jungle compound, and resettled there, repairing the one remaining concrete building. Bomjon himself is also regularly returning, under the pretext of “writing his book” (the same pretext was used when he was keeping hostage two women in 2012). Authorities are unable to evict them, but as Halkhoriya is currently part of the Parsa Wildlife Reserve, due to what army, police and wildlife reserve staff are allegedly patrolling the area to avoid further complications.
माता भनिने महिला हलखोरिया जङगलमा सार्वजनिक (March 27, 2012)
Summary: Bomjon holding two women hostage, Slovak Marici and Nepalese “Mata Ani” in his Halkhoriya Jungle compound, in March 2012. Marici was released on March 24, Mata Ani still held hostage by Bomjon at the time of the article published.
तपस्वी भनिएका बमजन पुन: हलखोरिया फर्कने हल्ला, वन कार्यालय र मातहतका निकाय सक्रिय (Sep 15, 2012)
Summary: Bomjon, who resided in Sindhuli District that time, returned to Halkhoriya in Sep 2012, even after being evicted on June 21, 2012. Police and army deployed for maintaining security. Local authorities do not allow him to settle. The article mentions Bomjon’s earlier taking hostage of Slovak Marici and Nepalese Tamang Mata Ani.
तपस्यास्थल पुगेका दुई गाउँले रातभर नियन्त्रणमा, हलखोरिया तपस्या स्थलमा झडप चारजना घाइते (Sep 2 2014)
Summary: A detailed description of Bomjon and his attendants abducting two villagers and beating them all night, also with a stick to the head.
Nijgadh.com
Nijgadh is the nearest city to Bomjon’s Halkhoriya compound as well as to his birthplace Bongjor of Ratnapuri.
बम्जन पुन हलखोरिया वन आएको शंका (June 17, 2014)
Summary: Ram Bomjon arrived on helicopter with his attendants in June 2014 at the pretext of visiting his birth village Bongjor of Ratnapuri, but suddenly they all rushed into the Halkhoriya Jungle, police and army searched him but did not find.
Original Archive.is and Archive.org
Sourya Daily
तपस्वीले दाइ र दिदीलाई कुटे (Apr 3, 2012)
Summary: Bomjon takes hostage his own siblings and his mother in Halkhoriya Jungle for five days, letting them to be beaten by Bal Hari Rai and Darshan Limbu all night, refusing to return to the family the youngest sister, 13-years old Ranjita, whom they went to rescue. The move came after the news about the two hostage women, a Slovak and a Nepalese, had been released on Nepalese TV news. He himself attacks with a sword his elder brother Gangajit, but unsuccessful to cut his head (the victim moved away). He also hits the head of his sister Asali Lama.
Original Archive.is Archive.org
Kantipur
‘तपस्वी‘ बम्जनद्वारा दुई युवक रातभर बन्धक (Sep 2, 2014)
Summary: Bomjon sends his attendants to abduct five villagers who were on their way home from India. Two of them, Rakesh Guro and Uttim Guro they manage to bind and pull to the jungle villa of Bomjon, the other three escaped and alerted other villagers. The two were beaten all night, but after villagers arrived to rescue them, mutual clash occurred, allegedly with injured on both sides. This happened two months after Bomjon won the Hetauda court case, allowing him to settle again in Halkhoriya, the article says. It also mentions Bomjon having been torturing two female hostages in 2012 for three months in the same place. A link to a short film shot made by Image Channel in the article is showing the bloodied victims of the incident and Ram Bomjon “explaining” his reasons for his actions.
Original Archive.is Archive.org
Freesansar
बम्जनलाई हलखोरिया पस्न नदिन उच्च सतर्कता (Sep 16, 2012)
Summary: Police and army alerted when Ram Bomjon returns to Halkhoriya in Sep 2012. The article also mentions the two women held hostage for three months til March 2012 by him.
Original Arcchive.is Archive.org
Scot-Nepal
The media of expat Nepalese in Scotland.
बम्जनलाई हलखोरिया पस्न नदिन उच्च सतर्कता (Sep 2012)
Summary: Hundreds of police and army are in high alert after Ram Bomjon returns to Halkhoriya in September 2012. The article includes a short news shotshowing them.
Himalkhabar
विवादास्पद बमजन पाठ्यपुस्तकमा (May 2013)
Summary: In a textbook for the 5th grade of elementary schools Ram Bomjon’s biography is published. Himalkhabar calls this shocking, due to the controversial behavior of Ram Bomjon, mentioning the Slovak and Nepalese hostages, attack with sword on a shepherd, attack on journalists etc.
Original Archive.is Archive.org
Nepal-Japan
The media of expat Nepalese in Japan.
कहाँ ? के गर्दैछन् ? बुद्धत्वको खोजीमा लागेको बमजम (भिडियो सहित)
Summary: An overview of Bomjon’s actions and travels, family and controversies, focusing on meeting the late ex-PM Sushil Koirala, including photos and videos.
Ujyaalo Online (Radio Channel)
‘तस्पस्वी’ बम्जनलाई पक्राउपूर्जी
Summary: Arrest warrant against Ram Bamjan, Darshan Limbu, Nil Bahadur Thing, Bal Hari Rai for illegal forest encroachment, but they all fled to Sindhuli and later Sarlahi Districts, and rejected the warrant.
List of television publications (news shots and documentaries)
Nepalese television channels in Nepali (still available online)
Nepalese TV channels had been actively covering Ram Bomjon’s controversial deeds between 2006 and 2012. That year the engagement of televisions in this topic had stopped, as part of an (apparently enforced) nationwide media information gap about him, lasting till 2017.
Change of media policy in 2017
In 2017 this had changed, as apparently Ram Bomjon himself allowed the media to inform about his World Peace Maitri Puja in Kathmandu, and make interviews with his followers at the venue. They took the past lesson not to evoke any negative image of Nepal’s ‘Buddha Boy’ anymore, and filmed the crowded religious event without any criticism towards the guru’s controversial past:
Avenues TV had added the documentary about the Puja into its Khabar Bitrako Khabar series.
News 24‘s coverage: तपस्वी रामबहादुर बम्जनको पछाडि किन दौडिरहेका छन् मानिसहरु ?- POWER NEWS With Sangam Baniya.
Himalaya Television‘ coverage: अपहरणको बात लागेका बम्जन कसरी बने परमपुजनिय गुरु – Prime Story Chaitra 22
The below list, on the other hand, shows those news shots and documentaries which show Bomjon in a more controversial light:
Television coverage between 2005 and 2014
Himalaya TV (Official)
Prime Story-Shanti Ki Aatanka Archive.org
Description: Journalists attacked by Ram Bomjon’s attendants Tomasz Henryk Tarnawski[4] and Bal Hari Rai while filming Bomjon’s sermon, their cameras broken.
Himalayan News Service
This news agency is behind the Himalaya TV Channel
Description: Covering the same topic as the above Prime Story – Shanti Ki Aatanka.
Image Channel (Official)
Ram Bahadur Bamjan ra Sathaniya bich Jhadap – Bara Archive.org
Description: The short interview had been shown on the US-based online media of Nepalese expats DC Nepal and the Nepal-based Image Channel Television. DC Nepal had deleted the film shot as well as the connected article from its website about the incident.
Nepalese television channels in Nepali (not available on official channel, archived)
Himalaya TV
Daily news (Himalaya Samachar). The news about Ram Bomjon holding hostage Slovak and Nepalese citizen are shown at 3:37 min.
Avenues TV
तपस्वी – Arrest warrant against Tapaswi Ram Bahaur Bomjon
Description: A short news shot about dozing down Bomjon’s illegal buildings in Halkhoriya Jungle, while there is a mention of the arrest warrant made against him by the authorities due to illegal forest encroachment.
खबर भित्रको खबर कसरी भेटियो हलखोरिया जंगलमा बम्जनको तीन तले आधुनिक भबन !!
Avenues TV by DC Nepal
Description: Two videos of the documentary serial Khabar Bitrako Khabar 1 and 2 show the story behind Bomjon’s Halkhoriya Jungle colony, as they call it, and the dozing down of his illegal buildings on June 17, 2012, after his eviction. His rescued Slovak hostage speaks about the torture in English. The film describes the attack on 5 journalists and the other controversies of Ram Bomjon.
By DC Nepal Part 1 Part 2 Archive.org 1 Archive.org 2
Avenues TV by Canada-Nepal
Description: BSDS’s protest march for Ram Bomjon’s citizenship on 9 jun, 2012, lasting 3 days, obstructing traffic on Nepal’s main Mahendra Highway, vandalizing parked cars and attacking villagers who tried to dissuade them of the “band” (curfew) enforcement. 24 people had been injured in the violence.
Avenues TV
Description: Protest march for Ram Bomjon’s citizenship 9 jun 2012. The film shows his fake birth certificate.
Sagarmatha Television
खोज खबर बम्जन काण्ड – Khoj Khabar Bamjan Kaanda Part 1
खोज खबर बम्जन काण्ड – Khoj Khabar Bamjan Kaanda Part 2
Himalayan News Service
धर्मका नाममा दादागिरी little buddha ram bahadur bamjan
International TV Channels (not available online, archived)
English
The already mentioned Discovery Channel documentary “The Boy With Divine Powers” is the most famous documentary made about the “Buddha Boy”, even if it was not the first. Although not available on Discovery Channel‘s official site anymore, the original is still found on Archive.com. The followers of Ram Bomjonbase their propaganda on the, as they understand it, “scientific proofs” provided by the Discovery Channel film, of their guru’s superhuman ability to stay without motion and food during day-times for 4 days. However, when Daniel B. Haber, author of a book about Ram Bomjon, writes:
“Discovery Channel had been here to set up cameras, but it didn’t work out and they may return again later. However when we contacted the Discovery liasion person in Kathmandu, Carolyn Shyangbo, she said that Discovery had hoped to film for three continuous days but were only given permission to film at night from 50 meters away and their infra cameras were not good enough. She said, “After their first visit the Discovery team were very interested, but after the second visit they thought it was all a bit fishy.”[15]
Daniel B. Haber: Journey into the forest: Seeking the Enigmatic “Little Buddha” of Nepal
French
The French crew of Channel TF1 had traveled to film Ram Bomjon in Nepal many times, and had been the first to record Ram Bomjon‘s meditation performance. The brief shot of the meditating boy made by the French crew had been shown on many television channels in 2005. It is also them who had recorded Bomjon at one occasion in 2006 with his sword, which had been used to attack people a few times after the French film (as the above Prateek Daily articles describe, of a shepherd boy from Ratnapuri, the kidnapped Slovak woman and his own siblings). The original had been taken down. French cameraman Romain Destans’ own Youtube Channel is showing the excerpt from the film made by him, where Bomjon is shown speaking, and his sword is shown nearby:
Sujet Romain Destans: Le retour de Little Bouddha
A version of this film named Little Bouddha : “Je méditais tellement profondément” had been archived:
The version for the popular French TV series “66 minutes Petit Bouddha” was shown on the French TV2 yet it had been taken down from their official website.
A short version of the film shown on TV2 is “Little Bouddha, le méditant, méditation “.
References
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- up^ Bhandari, Diwakar (April 3, 2012). “Buddha Boy turns violent‚ thrashes siblings”. The Himalayan Times. Archived from the original on February 8, 2014.
- ^ up :a b “May be the government is just at “wait and see” until some kind of overwhelming pressure develops, national as well as foreign.” Kishore Sherchand http://thehimalayanvoice.blogspot.com/2013/05/writing-on-buddha-boy-ram-bomjon-palden.html
- up^ “Five Journalists Beaten Up, misbehaved”. Nepal Press Freedom. 22 March 2012. Archived from the original on August 10, 2017.
- ^ up:a b c Tomasz Henryk Tarnawski, Poland, Nondegree, – “Sambodhi in Nepal: A study of a ‘Post Modern’ Yogi-Ascetic in Himalayan Nepal”., August 20, 2014 – August 19, 2015. http://tribhuvan-university.edu.np/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Research-Bulletin.pdf
- up^ Adibasi Janajati Rastriya Andolan, probably already dissolved, see more http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/printedition/news/2014-11-02/janajatis-kick-off-nationwide-stir.html
- up^ Maha Sambodhi Dharma Sangha Guru’s Global Blessing Tour and Halkhoria Jungle Dharmic Forest Status Thepetitionsite.com/36/international-petition-for-a-dharmik-ban-religious-forest/ May 15, 2014 Preserve and Expand Nepal’s Dharmic Forest Thepetitionsite.com/36/international-petition-for-a-dharmik-ban-religious-forest/ 2014
- ^ up to:a b c d Dhakal, Giri, Bhakta, Ameet, Girish, Bhanu (April 5, 2017). “State must watch Bomjon closely”. Setopati. Archived from the original on June 13, 2017.
- up^ Joan P. Stanley-Baker, USA, Non-degree, – “The Maitreyan Phenomenon Spiritual Metamorphosis in MahaSambodhi Dharma Sangha”., April 29, 2014 – April 28, 2015. http://tribhuvan-university.edu.np/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Research-Bulletin.pdf
- up^ “Brainwashing – RationalWiki”. rationalwiki.org. Retrieved 2017-08-17.
- up^ Dennie, J Ocean (December 26, 2009). “The Next Buddha? Buddha Boy Tapaswi Palden Dorje – Ram Bahadur Bomjon”. Sathya Sai Baba – Life, Love & Spirituality. Archived from the original on November 24, 2011.
- up^ Sherchand, Kishore (May 27, 2013). “Writing on ‘The Buddha Boy’, Ram Bomjon Palden Dorje from Half-Way around The Globe”. The Himalayan Voice. Archived from the original on March 8, 2014.
- up^ “Slovak woman detained by Byddha Boy’s followers set free”. Nepal News. March 26, 2012. Archived from the original on May 27, 2017.
- up^ Lamichhane, Upendra (July 26, 2010). “‘Buddha boy’ unrepentant”. My Republica. Archived from the original on July 28, 2010.
- up^ Buncombe, Andrew (November 11, 2008). “‘Buddha Boy’ reappears after year in jungle”. The Independent. Archived from the original on December 25, 2008.
- up^ Haber, Daniel B (December 1, 2007). Journey Into the Forest: Seeking the Enigmatic Little Buddha of Nepal. https://www.amazon.co.uk: Pilgrims Publishing. ISBN 8177696408.
External links
- Bodhi Shrawan Dharma Sangha
- View on Buddhism – Controversy – Controversial teachers
- The Cult Education Institute
- ICSA Group Info
- Cult
See also
- Ram Bahadur Bomjon
- Buddhism
- Buddhism and violence
- List of Nepalese Media
- Media of Nepal
- List of newspapers in Nepal
- List of Nepali television stations
- Cult
- Guru
- Maitreya Buddha
- Maitreya claimants
- Buddha claimants
Summarized list of media:
- 1Violence against media
- 1.1Five Journalists Beaten Up, misbehaved (22 March 2012)
- 2Censorship
- 3The Setopati interview
- 4Efforts to install the ‘Next Buddha’
- 4.1Latest claims about Ram Bahadur Bomjon’s identity
- 5Media as main enemy
- 6List of online news publications
- 6.1Nepalese online media in English (only archives, original not available)
- 6.1.1The Himalayan Times
- 6.1.1.12010
- 6.1.1.1.1Buddha boy shows wrath (July 24, 2010)
- 6.1.1.1.2Police quizzes Buddha Boy over trashing locals (July 26, 2010)
- 6.1.1.22012
- 6.1.1.2.1Bamjan’s boys go unruly, beat up journos (March 22, 2012)
- 6.1.1.2.2Two women held captive in Bamjan’s ashram (March 26, 2012)
- 6.1.1.2.3Bamjan’s aides free Slovak woman (March 27, 2012)
- 6.1.1.2.4Bamjan’s captive Marichi in Lama hotel‚’severe’ (March 26, 2012)
- 6.1.1.2.5Buddha Boy turns violent‚ thrashes siblings (April 3, 2012)
- 6.1.1.2.6Is Buddha boy above the law? (March 30, 2012)
- 6.1.1.2.7Bamjan’s aides yet to be charged (March 28, 2012)
- 6.1.1.2.8VDC Secy who faked Bamjan’s birth certificate held (June 14, 2012)
- 6.1.1.2.9Bamjan boys halt transport seeking citizenship for him (June 9, 2012)
- 6.1.1.2.10Bamjan’s followers, cops clash (June 12, 2012)
- 6.1.1.2.11Buddha Boy leaves Halkhoria forest (June 15, 2012)
- 6.1.1.2.12Structures in Halkhoria forest demolished (June 28, 2012)
- 6.1.1.2.13Buddha Boy aides beat up villagers (December 3, 2012)
- 6.1.1.2.14Buddha Boy turns violent‚ thrashes siblings (April 3, 2012)
- 6.1.1.2.15’Buddha Boy’ finds his abode of peace at Sindhuli forest (July 8, 2012)
- 6.1.1.3Ekantipur
- 6.1.1.3.1Buddha Boy sees red (July 25, 2010)
- 6.1.1.3.224 hurt as Bamjan supporters clash with locals (June 12, 2012)
- 6.1.1.3.3‘Buddha boy’ men ‘detain’ 2 women (March 26, 2012)
- 6.1.1.4Nepal News
- 6.1.1.4.1Slovak woman detained by Buddha Boy’s followers set free (26 March 2012)
- 6.1.1.4.2Buddha boy says he slapped villagers for disturbing him (27 July 2010)
- 6.1.1.4.3Bamjan’s boys go unruly‚ beat up journos (22 March 2012)
- 6.1.1.5News in Nepal
- 6.1.1.5.1Buddha boy’s follower thrash journos in Bara (March 21, 2012)
- 6.1.1.6The Kathmandu Insider
- 6.1.1.6.1Buddha boy’s disciples thrash journos (Mar 21 2012)
- 6.1.1.7DC Nepal
- 6.1.1.7.1Buddha boy Ram Bahadur Bomjan had a fight with Sathania in Bara district (2 Sep 2014)
- 6.1.1.8Times Khabar
- 6.1.1.8.1Fight broke out between Ram Bamjan’s followers and local villagers (Sep 2 2014)
- 6.1.1.12010
- 6.1.1The Himalayan Times
- 6.2Nepalese online media in English (original still available)
- 6.2.1Setopati
- 6.2.1.1State must watch Bomjon closely (June 17, 2017)
- 6.2.2The Kathmandu Post
- 6.2.2.1‘Buddha boy’ men ‘detain’ 2 women (Mar 25, 2012)
- 6.2.2.2Locals clash with Bamjan’s followers (Sep 2, 2014)
- 6.2.3My Republica
- 6.2.3.1’Buddha boy’ unrepentant (July 26, 2010)
- 6.2.4Nepal Mountain News
- 6.2.4.1One Foreign Other Nepali Women Made Captive in ‘new’ Buddha’s Place (March 26, 2012)
- 6.2.1Setopati
- 6.3International online media in English (original still available)
- 6.3.1BBC
- 6.3.1.1Nepal’s ‘Buddha boy’ investigated for attacking group (27 July 2010)
- 6.3.2The Independent
- 6.3.2.1‘Buddha Boy’ reappears after year in jungle (11 November 2008)
- 6.3.3PRI (Public Radio International)
- 6.3.3.1Nepal police rescue Slovak woman from followers of Buddha boy
- 6.3.4Global Post
- 6.3.4.1Nepal police rescue Slovak woman from followers of Buddha boy
- 6.3.5Hindustan Times
- 6.3.5.1Nepal’s Boy Buddha frees Slovak hostage
- 6.3.6The Sydney Morning Herald
- 6.3.6.1Buddha boy back, with a weapon
- 6.3.7Asian Correspondent
- 6.3.7.1Nepal police: Slovak saved from ‘Buddha’ followers
- 6.3.8News OK (Oklahoma, USA)
- 6.3.8.1Nepal police: Slovak saved from ‘Buddha’ followers
- 6.3.9Mirror
- 6.3.9.1Is this boy the new Buddha?
- 6.3.10Townhall
- 6.3.10.1Nepal police: Slovak saved from ‘Buddha’ followers
- 6.3.11KTAR News, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
- 6.3.11.1Nepal police: Slovak saved from ‘Buddha’ followers
- 6.3.12The San-Diego Union-Tribune (San Diego, CA, USA)
- 6.3.12.1Nepal police: Slovak saved from ‘Buddha’ followers
- 6.3.13Associated Press (AP)
- 6.3.1BBC
- 6.4Slovak online media (original still available)
- 6.4.1Sme
- 6.4.1.1Unesená Slovenka Marichi sa volá Zsuzsanna
- 6.4.2Pravda
- 6.4.2.1Údajnú Slovenku vyslobodili z rúk stúpencov ‚prevteleného Budhu‘
- 6.4.2.2Záhadná Mariči v Nepále je Slovenka, potvrdilo ministerstvo
- 6.4.3Topky
- 6.4.3.1Slovenka, ktorú mesiace držali v nádrži a mučili: Je to Košičanka Zuzana!
- 6.4.4Čas
- 6.4.4.1Slovenská zajatkyňa v Nepále: Mučili ma, bola som na prahu smrti!
- 6.4.5Noviny
- 6.4.5.1Únos Slovenky v Nepále! Našli ju v zúboženom stave
- 6.4.1Sme
- 6.5Czech online media (original still available)
- 6.5.1Lidovky
- 6.5.1.1Nepálská sekta bila Slovenku, rušila gurua v meditaci
- 6.5.2Týden
- 6.5.2.1V Nepálu našli Slovenku zajatou příznivci „malého Buddhy“
- 6.5.3TV Nova
- 6.5.3.1Slovenka, kterou mučila sekta v Nepálu, má i české občanství
- 6.5.1Lidovky
- 6.6Nepali online media (original still available)
- 6.6.1Prateek Daily
- 6.6.1.1बमजनको तपस्यास्थलमा लामो समयदेखि विदेशी र स्वदेशी दुई महिला बन्धक (March 25, 2012)
- 6.6.1.2तपस्वी भनिएका बमजनद्वारा आफ्नै बहिनी बन्धक कारबाईको माग गर्दै परिवारद्वारा प्रहरीमा जाहेरी (May 2012)
- 6.6.1.3हलखोरिया ज·लमा तपस्यारत तपस्वीका अनुयायीले सञ्चारकर्मीलाई कुटे (March 21, 2012)
- 6.6.1.4तपस्वी भनिएका रामबहादुर बमजनका अनुयायीद्वारा चक्काजाम डुमरवाना पिलुवाका स्थानीय युवाद्वारा प्रतिकार (June 12, 2012)
- 6.6.1.5झूटको खेती गर्न माहिर बमजनद्वारा बोधिज्ञान प्राप्त गरेको दाबी (June 16, 2014)
- 6.6.1.6बमजन र उनका अनुयायीहरूले छाडेर गएका हलखोरिया क्षेत्रको बेलैमा संरक्षण गर्नुपर्नेमा जोड (June 16, 2012)
- 6.6.1.7पर्सा वन्यजन्तु आरक्षको बेवास्ताका कारण आरक्ष क्षेत्रमा बमजनका अनुयायीहरूको चहलपहल बढ्दो (Jan 30, 2016)
- 6.6.1.8माता भनिने महिला हलखोरिया जङगलमा सार्वजनिक (March 27, 2012)
- 6.6.1.9तपस्वी भनिएका बमजन पुन: हलखोरिया फर्कने हल्ला, वन कार्यालय र मातहतका निकाय सक्रिय (Sep 15, 2012)
- 6.6.1.10तपस्यास्थल पुगेका दुई गाउँले रातभर नियन्त्रणमा, हलखोरिया तपस्या स्थलमा झडप चारजना घाइते (Sep 2 2014)
- 6.6.2Nijgadh.com
- 6.6.2.1बम्जन पुन हलखोरिया वन आएको शंका (June 17, 2014)
- 6.6.3Sourya Daily
- 6.6.3.1तपस्वीले दाइ र दिदीलाई कुटे (Apr 3, 2012)
- 6.6.4Kantipur
- 6.6.4.1’तपस्वी’ बम्जनद्वारा दुई युवक रातभर बन्धक (Sep 2, 2014)
- 6.6.5Freesansar
- 6.6.5.1बम्जनलाई हलखोरिया पस्न नदिन उच्च सतर्कता (Sep 16, 2012)
- 6.6.6Scot-Nepal
- 6.6.6.1बम्जनलाई हलखोरिया पस्न नदिन उच्च सतर्कता (Sep 2012)
- 6.6.7Himalkhabar
- 6.6.7.1विवादास्पद बमजन पाठ्यपुस्तकमा (May 2013)
- 6.6.8Nepal-Japan
- 6.6.8.1कहाँ ? के गर्दैछन् ? बुद्धत्वको खोजीमा लागेको बमजम (भिडियो सहित)
- 6.6.9Ujyaalo Online (Radio Channel)
- 6.6.9.1‘तस्पस्वी’ बम्जनलाई पक्राउपूर्जी
- 6.6.1Prateek Daily
- 6.1Nepalese online media in English (only archives, original not available)
- 7List of television publications (news shots and documentaries)
- 7.1Nepalese television channels in Nepali (still available online)
- 7.1.1Change of media policy in 2017
- 7.1.2Television coverage between 2005 and 2014
- 7.1.2.1Himalaya TV (Official)
- 7.1.2.1.1Prime Story-Shanti Ki Aatanka Archive.org
- 7.1.2.2Himalayan News Service
- 7.1.2.2.1धर्मका नाममा दादागिरी
- 7.1.2.3Image Channel (Official)
- 7.1.2.3.1Ram Bahadur Bamjan ra Sathaniya bich Jhadap – Bara Archive.org
- 7.1.2.1Himalaya TV (Official)
- 7.2Nepalese television channels in Nepali (not available on official channel, archived)
- 7.2.1Himalaya TV
- 7.2.1.1Nepali News 26 March 2012
- 7.2.2Avenues TV
- 7.2.2.1तपस्वी – Arrest warrant against Tapaswi Ram Bahaur Bomjon
- 7.2.2.2खबर भित्रको खबर कसरी भेटियो हलखोरिया जंगलमा बम्जनको तीन तले आधुनिक भबन !!
- 7.2.2.3तपस्वी रामबहादुर बम्जनको माग
- 7.2.2.4तपस्वी रामबहादुर बम्जनको माग
- 7.2.3Sagarmatha Television
- 7.2.3.1खोज खबर बम्जन काण्ड – Khoj Khabar Bamjan Kaanda Part 1
- 7.2.3.2खोज खबर बम्जन काण्ड – Khoj Khabar Bamjan Kaanda Part 2
- 7.2.4Himalayan News Service
- 7.2.4.1धर्मका नाममा दादागिरी little buddha ram bahadur bamjan
- 7.2.1Himalaya TV
- 7.3International TV Channels (not available online, archived)
- 7.3.1English
- 7.3.2French
- 7.1Nepalese television channels in Nepali (still available online)
- 8See also
- 9References
- 10External links
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