Mr Harrer built him one, running the projector off an old Jeep engine, and discovered at his first proper audience with the living Buddha that the boy had already dismantled and re-assembled it, all by himself.
First priority area is protecting the identity of Lumbini as the birthplace of Buddha as well as its spiritual atmosphere and environment, along with the other sites around Lumbini that are relevant to the life and history of the Buddha.
And it inspired me to re-read the Buddha with an eye out for leadership wisdom.
The pictures show the travellers posing with Buddha statues and pretending to kiss one of them.
There are only so many small boats that can go up the Mekong to see the Pak Ou caves, with their hundreds of Buddha figures, and so many vehicles that can drive the winding roads to the remote ethnic villages, where people who have never fully integrated into Lao society live unwired, in simple wooden houses on stilts as they have for centuries.
On Wednesday a French daily, France Soir, ran the pictures along with drawings of Buddha and Christian and Jewish gods.
He claimed he would break down all social conventions in order to encourage worshippers to consider the teachings of Buddha with an open mind.
He has written over sixty books and has been a bestselling author for decades, with more than a dozen titles on the New York Times bestseller lists, including Buddha and Jesus.
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We took an excursion to see ancient Buddhist monks' caves with their elaborate meditation paintings and tall Buddha statues in Bamiyan (since destroyed by the Taliban).
Local lore has it that Buddha looked at this location between the Mekong and Nam Khan rivers with its ring of lushly forested mountains and predicted that a great city would someday be built here.
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