[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

Well it is probably as legitimate as visions of Mary or other apparitions that appear to be indemic to every culture.

The whole Dalai Lama thing is also quite an interesting phenomenon too.

But, if you keep in mind what the Hindus beleive will happen with the 10th incarnation of Vishnu, perhaps we can delay his return a bit.

[tomakaze]

did they rub his belly for luck?

[wunderkind54]

Seriously folks........

A teenager that doesn't move or allow anyone within 50 feet of his personal space...??

Been there, done that.

This is Nepal's version of a sideshow.

[leadpenny]

"probe"

Ya gotta love those headline writers.

[razoroccam]

The biggest problem with this story is that when Gautam Siddharta achieved enlightenment and became Buddha, he broke from the cycle of birth and death. By definition, The Buddha cannot be re-born.

[MinuteGal]

Rhetorical questions......where is the Nepalese version of Child and Family Services? Do they even have one?

In this country, law enforcement would have swooped in, put this kid on a gurney, taken him to a hospital and then arrested his parents.

Glorified in song, art, poetry, movies, in unconcerned media articles such as this, and romanticised in the minds of 1960-ish hippies, most third-world "religions" are actually savage, horrifying and kinky.

Leni

[DarkSavant]

So in the east someone is holy by sitting and doing nothing? I never did get that.

[Condor51]

"

He sits motionless from dawn to dusk when visitors are allowed to see him. But ... we don't know what he does at night.

I do........

[humblegunner]

The young mystic is hidden from public view at night behind a curtain drawn by his followers.

The "followers" then bring him a big bowl of rice and a diet coke.

[sagar]

Does he look like someone who hasn't eaten in 6 months?

Nepali boy Ram Bahadur Bamjon meditates in the village of Bara, 150 km (95 miles) southeast of the capital Kathmandu on November 20, 2005. Authorities in Nepal urged religious groups and scientists on Sunday to help solve the mystery of a meditating teenaged boy who some believe is an incarnation of Buddha. At least 100,000 devotees from Nepal and neighbouring India have flocked in recent weeks to a dense forest in southeastern Nepal to see 15-year-old Bamjon, who, his associates say, has been meditating without food or water for six months. Picture taken November 20, 2005. REUTERS/Stringer