HUNDREDS of people scoured a jungle in southern Nepal yesterday for a missing teenager who many believe is the reincarnation of Buddha.

Hundreds of people scoured a jungle in southern Nepal today for a missing teenager who many believe is the reincarnation of Buddha.

A teenage boy has been locked in mediation – allegedly without food or water - in a Nepalese jungle for six months, and thousands have flocked to see him with some believing he’s the Buddha reincarnated.