Teenage ‘Buddha’ missing in Nepal

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

Ram Bahadur Banjan, 15, disappeared on Saturday from a forest where he had meditated for the last 10 months, during which his associates said he consumed no food or water.

Police, followers and family members were looking for the boy in the jungles of Bara, about 160 kilometres south of the capital, Katmandu.