Once upon a time in Nepal: Buddha Boy

Best Documentary, April 4, 2018; Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

The great hope that surrounded Buddha Boy has been dashed by the salacious media.

Nepal: Little Buddha, the return (documentary) In Nepal, five hours from Katmandu, thousands of people, irrespective of which caste they belong to, go each day on a pilgrimage, on foot, bus, or by cart.

Buddhas are free of all rebirth.

There, in the middle of the forest, they come to meditate and pray in front of a 16-year-old boy. There, under a giant banyan tree, 24 hours a day, the boy sits at the root, in full meditation.

He does not move, he does not eat, he does not drink, he does not go to the bathroom or sleep. He remains seated quietly, breathes very gently and very little, and does not need anything -- except, perhaps, silence and peace, which are increasingly in short supply.

For believers, he is the impossible-reincarnation of the historical Buddha or a possible bodhisattva. Miracle or not?

Here he is followed, tracing the boy whom all of Nepal already calls The Little Buddha. 

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