Was Jesus In India?

Swingdance · #1 23-09-2011, 02:39 AM

Maybe this has been posted here previously? I'm new.

There is a belief among some scholars that Jesus, sometime during that period in which his life is unaccounted for actually traveled to India and learned what he later taught from buddhist masters. There are a number of websites on this subject and some YouTube videos as well. There are also books on the subject. What's pointed out among other things are the uncanny similarities between the teachings of Jesus and that of the Buddha.

Not saying that I myself believe it to be actually true though as it's all speculative.

#2 23-09-2011, 02:42 AM

I find this a fascinating topic. I am like you I have read a few things on the topic, but I am not a scholar about it, so I would be very interested in the responses you get...

Swingdance · #3 23-09-2011, 02:53 AM

If you google on Jesus In India or Youtube there's some material there. Since I'm new I can't yet post links.

#4 23-09-2011, 03:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Swingdance

If you google on Jesus In India or Youtube there's some material there. Since I'm new I can't yet post links.

Have you seen the site that speaks of a Jesus tomb in India?

Miss Hepburn · #5 23-09-2011, 03:04 AM

Was Jesus in India?
Is the Pope Catholic?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Notovitch

Swingdance · #6 23-09-2011, 03:07 AM

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Originally Posted by nightowl

Have you seen the site that speaks of a Jesus tomb in India?

Yes, I have seen that on YouTube.

theophilus · #7 23-09-2011, 04:22 PM

And when Jesus had finished these parables, he went away from there, and coming to his hometown he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works?Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?”
Matthew 13:53-57 ESV

The people of Nazareth were surprised at the wisdom of Jesus and wondered where he had gotten it. Would this have been the case if he had just gotten back from a long sojourn in India? Their reaction shows that he had grown up in Nazareth and from a human perspective there had been no way he could have achieved such wisdom.

#8 23-09-2011, 04:24 PM

Some say a prophit went into india after christs supposed death, and was the "original" buddha, or influence the story

#9 23-09-2011, 04:54 PM

After the supposed death of Jesus, the body was not found, so there is only speculation by man from that point on...

Lord Buddha lived a half-millenium before Jesus.

Some apocryphal writings, such as the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, have the child Jesus doing all sorts of miracles and vindictive acts. But the Bible itself is silent about Jesus' childhood years, except for this one brief account in Luke.

"Luke 2:39-52

[39] When Joseph and Mary had done everything required by the Law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee to their own town of Nazareth. [40] And the child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.

[41] Every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. [42] When he was twelve years old, they went up to the Feast, according to the custom. [43] After the Feast was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it. [44] Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. [45] When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him. [46] After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. [47] Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers. [48] When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you."

[49] "Why were you searching for me?" he asked. "Didn't you know I had to be in my Father's house?" [50] But they did not understand what he was saying to them.

[51] Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart. [52] And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men."

http://www.bibleufo.com/anomlostbooks96.htm

Swingdance · #10 23-09-2011, 05:46 PM

And that's just what a lot of people refer to; the fact that the life of Jesus is unaccounted for before he began his ministry save for his birth and his time in the temple as a child. And it's a pretty wide gap; he could have gone anywhere and done anything during that time. Now, if he indeed did travel there, why did he do so? And why India?