Scientists will study "infant Buddha"
In the jungles of southern Nepal has attracted the attention of scientists meditating teenager after a crowd of believers, in recent months, turned to the worship to the one considered the reincarnation of Buddha.
For more than six mesyatsev15-year-old Nepali boy, named Pam Bahadur Bamdzhana, does not drink or eat. At the foot of a large rubber plant in the village Ratanapuri south of Kathmandu, he sits in a pose of "lotus", his eyes closed and his face does not express any emotions. Come take a look at the "miracle" do not let the tree closer than 50 meters.
Hair boys during these months is strongly increased and falls on the eyes. During all this time, he talked a couple of times. This case has received wide publicity in Nepal a few weeks ago, when the boy was attacked by a poisonous snake. Then the people around him hung a veil around it, five days after he emerged from his hiding place and said that he was bitten by a snake, but he did not need treatment and is going to spend in meditation for six years.
However, the surrounding clarify that the boy is not a Buddha, that he had reached a lesser degree of holiness. "I do not have the energy of the Buddha" - said "the young Buddha."
Scientists are interested in this opportunity and want to check out allegations that the boy has been without water for so long.
Clarifying the truth will a team from the Royal Nepal Academy of Science and Technology. Scientists plan to study the boy without interrupting the meditation, but not touching the body.
Around the boy has already formed a lucrative business. His photos are selling well. Local authorities have reported that the bank account of the boy has received about 500,000 rupees (okolo7000 dollars). And that's not counting those handouts that believers are left on the spot.
The boy's parents are shocked. They do not understand what is happening to their son. When the boy's mother Maya Devi (the same name was the mother of the founder of Buddhism) has learned that the son began the meditation, she fainted. She told us that this child, the third of seven, he was always quiet and uncommunicative boy tells NEWSru.com
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