Katmandu, Nepal
The teenage boy who has been meditating, Buddha–like, under a tree in Nepal for 10 months has disappeared. Ram Bahadur Bomjan, 16, reportedly took no food or water during his silent meditation, a feat that drew thousands of Buddhists on pilgrimages to his jungle camp. Just hours after he was reported missing last week, hundreds of police and locals fanned out through the jungle on a fruitless search. Bed Bahadur Thing, chairman of a state committee set up to manage tourism at the site, said Bomjan probably left to find a quieter place to meditate. “It is impossible to find him,” Thing said. “How can humans search for God?”
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