Devotees claim Nepal’s missing Buddha Boy found

Kathmandu, March 19 (IANS) A teen school dropout in Nepal who was hailed as Buddha’s reincarnation as he meditated without food or water has been found eight days after he went mysteriously missing, devotees claimed.

A team of searchers found Ram Bahadur Bomjan, a 16-year-old from Ratanpuri village in southern Nepal’s Bara district, at around 7 a.m. Sunday in the Char Koshe Jhadi forest, Nepal’s radio station Kantipur quoted devotees as saying.

Bomjan caught media attention March 11 when he vanished from his meditation site in the forest below a hollow peepul tree. It was feared that Maoist guerrillas had abducted him.

Armed police combed the forest in search of the loincloth-clad youth, but failed to locate him.

Bed Bahadur Thing, chief of the Om Namobuddha Tapaswi Seva Committee (formed to regulate devotees of the Buddha Boy), told reporters Bomjan had been found in the forest Sunday morning by a team of seven volunteers.

‘He was tired of the crowds and wanted to meditate in peace,’ Thing reportedly said. ‘So he went deeper into the forest seeking quiet.’

Bomjan had reportedly announced he would need to meditate for six years to attain enlightenment.

He was dubbed the Little Buddha, New Buddha and Buddha Boy after the local media reported he had been meditating in the same cross-legged position since mid-May, without food and water.

But there was scepticism about the claim too since devotees screened him from viewers and barred a team of researchers from any medical examination.

Despite Thing’s claim that the boy had been found, there was no immediate confirmation by the district authorities.

The district authorities had last week frozen the committee’s account.

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