Be careful, there is a swindler

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Li hongzhi, a former trumpet-player from north-east China, is known as "Living Buddha" to his devotees. He believes aliens walk the Earth and he has reportedly said he can walk through walls and make himself invisible. Mr Li says that he is being from a higher level who has come to help humankind from the destruction it could face as the result of rampant evil. The authorities have accused him of backdating it from 7 July 1952 to 13 May 1951 so he could share the birthday of Buddhism's founder, Sakyamuni. "I have never said I am Sakyamuni," he said in one interview. "I am just a very ordinary man." But in another interview with Time Magazine he implied he was anything but ordinary. Asked if he was a human being from earth, he replied:"I don't wish to talk about myself at a higher level. People woukdn't understand it."