Reply #41: Here's the story

[Whoa_Nelly]

http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/20-03-2006/77501-Buddha-0

No trace found of missing Nepalese boy some believe is Buddha

03/20/2006

Hundreds of volunteers and police searched Monday in a jungle of southern Nepal for a missing teenage boy who many believe is the reincarnation of Buddha, but failed to find any trace of him, an official said.

Searchers have covered a large area around where the boy, Ram Bahadur Banjan, 15, was last seen on March 11 in a forest where he had meditated for the last 10 months, allegedly without food and water, local government official Harihar Dahal said.

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Banjan disappeared from his meditating spot in a niche among the roots of a tree in Bara, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of the capital, Katmandu. He had been sitting cross-legged and motionless with his eyes closed since last May 17.

Thousands of Hindus and Buddhists flocked to see him every day.

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