Kathmandu, Nepal — Ram Bahadur Bomjon “Buddha Boy” is a 15-year old Nepalese boy who was hailed by many to be Buddha incarnate - 11 months without any food, without any drop of water - just silently meditating in a tree-hole (like the Gautama Buddha). Mysteriously he vanished one day - as of March 2007 he is known, however, to be safely meditating in a pit in Ratanpuri village.

Discovery Channel last year had a feature on him in their show “The Boy With Divine Powers”. Conclusion? It might not really be such a great hoax as everyone might have thought.

Some time ago, the Discovery crew had arrived at the village of “Buddha Boy” (BB) - and they had found it to be now a huge secondary industry area as devotees arrive and buy and sell merchandise related to BB. Just a year ago, this had been but a simple farming village with little contact to the outside world. “Buddha Boy”-commercialized so it seems - and immediately the narrator indirectly seems to suggest a hoax in the making as hundreds of jobs are created and giant profits reaped.

Source: Buddhistchannel.tv