Boy Called Reincarnated Buddha Missing

Reincarnated Buddha Missing?

15-year-old boy whose followers believe he is the reincarnation of Buddha has disappeared after 10 months of meditation in the Nepalese jungle, officials said Saturday.
Followers of Ram Bahadur Banjan reported his disappearance and search parties on Sunday split up in the jungles of Bara, about 100 miles south of the capital, Katmandu, to investigate, said Santaraj Subedi, the chief government official in the district.
Banjan has been sitting cross-legged and motionless with eyes closed in a niche among the roots of a tree in the jungle since May 17, 2005, according to his associates, who claim he has had no food or water during that period.
In recent months, thousands of people have come to glimpse the boy, including many who believe Banjan is a reincarnation of Gautama Siddhartha, who was born not far away in southwestern Nepal around 500 B.C. and later became revered as the Buddha.

The article mentions that the oficials do not think "communist rebels or robbers" abducted him. Thank goodness this is pushed into the back pages of our papers. If this was bigger news here, our Homeland Security experts would postulate that either he is at a terrorist training camp or taken captive by Osama. I could see the talking heads on FOX devoting hours and hours to his disappearance like they have to the missing female in Aruba.

Could it be that at 15 he just said "to hell with this" and just walked away?