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Nepal's "Buddha boy" is under investigation by the authorities, who question his claim not to have eaten anything for six months and are examining his followers' finances.The government believes that Ram Bomjon, 15, may be breaking his fast to eat at night when his shrine is cl..."
Nepal's "Buddha boy" is under investigation by the authorities, who question his claim not to have eaten anything for six months and are examining his followers' finances.The government believes that Ram Bomjon, 15, may be breaking his fast to eat at night when his shrine is closed to visitors. Buddhism experts, the interior ministry and Nepal's leading scientific agency have all been called in to investigate the phenomenon, which has attracted thousands of pilgrims and excitement worldwide."We told the shrine management committee, 'Either we need to see everything that is going on or, ifthis is a fraud, you need to close it down,' " said Hari Har Dahal, a local official.
"This has got into the media all over the world. If it is not true, it will be bad for the country."
The way donations to the organising committee have been spent has also been questioned.
Hundreds of pilgrims were
still entering the jungle near the village of Ratanpuri to see Ram this
week, despite the authorities' attempts to discourage the faithful from
visiting the site.
"We stop from village to
village and people are really keen to come," said Amit Bartola, a bus
driver, who had 80 people crammed on to his 36-seat bus.
All the pilgrims The Daily
Telegraph spoke to said they believed the claim that Ram had eaten or
drunk nothing for six months. The scene's popularity ispartly becuase
of its resemblance to an episode in the life of the Buddha, born nearby
in around 543 BC. The Buddha achieved enlightenment after meditating
under a sacred pipal tree for 49 days, a feat of endurance allegedly
surpassed by Ram. The boy is sitting under a pipal in the same pose as
the Buddha.
Ganga Jeet Bomjon, Ram's
elder brother, strongly rejected accusations of cheating. "The
investigators say that you guys are doing something - feeding him
batteries to give him energy or something," he joked. "But you try
sitting with your legs crossed for three hours, never mind six months."
The management committee,
mainly composed of young men and teenagers from Ram's village, stands
by its claim that the teenager has eaten and drunk nothing for six
months. But it has resisted intensive scrutiny.
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