The Boy with Divine Powers investigates the mythical story of 15-year old Ram Bahadur Bomjon who could be the reincarnation of Lord Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. The 
documentary released in 2006 questions the legitimacy of Bomjon who has been meditating in the hollow of a tree in dense jungles of Lumbini, just about 150 miles away from the birthplace of Buddha. In the backdrop of the Nepali political turmoil, the documentary questions if the survival of Bomjon without food or water on the sole basis of meditation true or if the boy is being starved in front of millions of eyes for money.
Gautam Buddha, born in Nepal, found enlightenment meditating under a banyan tree in Gaya (India) for many years in around 500 BCE. His life, discourses and teachings were summarized after his death and bequeathed by oral tradition by the followers in the formation of Buddhism, the religion that is considered peaceful and enlightened and that has about 200-500 million devotees who are called Buddhists. Bomjon, who is also called the Buddha boy, could be the next Buddha at a time when the world has seen so much violence and so much turmoil all over and when Nepal and the whole world is in need of peace, of yet another chapter of enlightenment. Bomjon disappeared in 2006. He is said to meditate for six years, so his emergence after six years, which would be 2012, which also happens to be the end of the world according to Mayan belief, would show what the world has yet to see.
documentary released in 2006 questions the legitimacy of Bomjon who has been meditating in the hollow of a tree in dense jungles of Lumbini, just about 150 miles away from the birthplace of Buddha. In the backdrop of the Nepali political turmoil, the documentary questions if the survival of Bomjon without food or water on the sole basis of meditation true or if the boy is being starved in front of millions of eyes for money. Gautam Buddha, born in Nepal, found enlightenment meditating under a banyan tree in Gaya (India) for many years in around 500 BCE. His life, discourses and teachings were summarized after his death and bequeathed by oral tradition by the followers in the formation of Buddhism, the religion that is considered peaceful and enlightened and that has about 200-500 million devotees who are called Buddhists. Bomjon, who is also called the Buddha boy, could be the next Buddha at a time when the world has seen so much violence and so much turmoil all over and when Nepal and the whole world is in need of peace, of yet another chapter of enlightenment. Bomjon disappeared in 2006. He is said to meditate for six years, so his emergence after six years, which would be 2012, which also happens to be the end of the world according to Mayan belief, would show what the world has yet to see.
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