They have found Buddha!

A Nepalese teenaged boy who was hailed as a reincarnation of the Buddha has reappeared after nine months of wandering through the jungles of eastern Nepal, police said.

"A team of police found the Buddha Boy sitting under a tree in the Piluwa jungle after there were rumours that some locals had spotted the boy on Monday afternoon," said Rameshwor Yadav, a police officer in the Bara district, 170 kilometers (106 miles) east of Kathmandu.

Ram Bahadur Bomjan, 16, had disappeared in March after he reportedly shunned food and water for almost 10 months while he meditated under a pipal tree in Bara near a holy site in Nepal revered by Hindus and Buddhists.

You know it makes it very hard to become a devotee of a religion if they cannot keep track of their deity. I know, I know, Buddha is a "prophet", not a "deity". I still think that it would be a good idea to choose somebody other then an unreliable teenager to represent your religion.

I am having a hard time believing that a teenager went ten hours without eating, much less ten months. I have raised a number of teenagers and they NEVER stop eating.