I don't know if the adult Jesus traveled to India, Tibet or anywhere else. I just can't accept the reasons so many Quorans have presented in an attempt to prove he couldn't possibly have traveled there.
1. It’s impossible for Jesus to have made any trips to India unless he was part of a large empire’s army.
Thomas the Apostle definitively traveled to India in 50 AD so why do so many Quorans claim that it was impossible for Jesus to have made the same journey just a few years before that?
2. Jesus was so poor that he couldn't afford the journey to India.
Shortly after his birth, Jesus was presented with very valuable gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh by the Wise Men from the East.
3. The Gospels don't mention travel to India.
The four Gospels of the New Testament are TOTALLY silent about Jesus's entire life between the ages of 12 and 30 so it can't be proven through them that Jesus didn't travel during those years. If there is no biblical evidence that Jesus did travel, there's also no proof within the Gospels that he didn't. The Gospels do state that Jesus grew up in Nazareth but it isn't reasonable to assume from that he stayed there his entire life.
4. The Gospels would have listed his travels if they had actually occurred.
Two of the Gospels even fail to mention the birth of Jesus! Do those omissions prove Jesus was never born?
5. Jesus didn't travel to India because it was the apostles’ job to go out into the world to preach.
During the lifetime of Jesus, he considered it “his” job to go out and preach and he traveled constantly to do so.
6. His self-identified mission was to the people of Israel and he only reluctantly ministered to people beyond that.
Matthew 28:19: “ Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.”
Mark 16:15: “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”
7. Jesus had responsibilities to his family that prevented him from traveling.
Even at age 12 Jesus traveled on his own without concern for his family. When they finally found him in the temple reading the law with the rabbis, he was asked why he left his family without notifying them. Jesus answered, "But why were you looking for Me? Did you not know I should be about My Father's business." His greatest priority wasn’t the welfare of his family.
There is a group of people known as Ahamdis who believe he did. The main evidence they gave were:
There are of course many counter-reasons why this isn't true - and having viewed all of this evidence, it still remains unlikely that he ever did. For the counter reasons look at the Wikipedia articles 0n Roza Bal and Jesus in Ahmadiyya Islam.
EDIT: Edited to remove defunct link.
I was sitting in Hemis, in Northern India, when the abbot of the Buddhist monastery said to me “You know Jesus studied here.”
I was traveling with Robert Thurman to Ladakh to visit the region, which is like visiting Tibet (without the soldiers). I’ve been to both places, and Ladakh has perfectly preserved monasteries and gompas that were not destroyed during the “Cultural Revolution” as this portion of Tibet became India in 1949.
I thought I had misheard the monk. I said “Excuse me? Who studied here?” He clarified. “Issa. You know him as Jesus, we refer to him as Issa. This is the monastery he spent ten years at.” I thought I had misunderstood him until I did the research.
Indeed a number of people have seen the document in the library at Hemis that claims to be the history of Jesus. It was translated into Russian by a Nepalese Sherpa traveling with Notovitch (note, Notovitch did not translate the book, he didn’t read or write the language, but the Sherpa did, so claims that it was a forgery are proven false when we look at other translations of the same document.) In the 1960’s, an Indian scholar made his own translation, if you compare the two they are identical.
In this document (Notovitch’s copy can be found online at the Gutenberg project) there is the story of Issa, as he was known in Asia, as well as the story of the Jewish faith, as “told by traders along the silk route” to Buddhist monks. (I used a translation with commentary in my book “Hacking the Afterlife” where I show that a careful reading of the text points to numerous verifiable religious sects that are listed in the book that weren’t known during the time of Notovitch, but have subsequently been proven to exist.)
What makes the “Life of St. Issa” notable (there is a copy in Hemis, the original is in Lhasa, according to a scholar I asked) is that many people have seen it, examined it; it’s a traditional Tibetan text written on blocks of paper, so each story is limited to the characters that can fit on a particular page. It begins with the story of Moses (claiming that he was the son of the Pharaoh, and not someone who was found by their family) and covers the travels of Issa along the silk road, including run ins with the Jain, Hindus and Brahmins.
The “lost tribes of Israel” have been proven to have existed along the silk road (according to the PBS doc of the same name) and Issa reportedly visited, preached, spoke to the various groups along the way. His insistence that “all are created equal” that the color of a person’s skin did not dictate how they would be received in the afterlife reportedly caused his life to be in danger from Brahmin married to the caste system. Further, he winds up finally in Hemis, where he studies Buddhist texts along with the monks there.
There’s no evidence that he adopted those texts or sutras, other than the obvious connection between philosophies. However, looking at the esoteric teachings that were available to Buddhist lamas at the time (esoteric teachings that later became the “Six Yogas of Naropa” include some unusual yogas that teach a person how to “appear to be dead” rather than alive.) I’m not claiming he learned them, but if its true he spent some time studying there, he may have been aware of them.
The book then recounts his return to Jerusalem (as recounted by the same merchants who visited Hemis) and there is an alternate history to what the events of the Bible depict. The most controversial was the account of his meeting with Pilate; in the Buddhist text it is claimed that Pilate assigned a “spy” to his group of followers, and the spy reported his comment about “Render unto Caesar.” Further, it claims that comment infuriated Pilate who ordered him scourged and crucified upon hearing it (with no side trip to Herod).
It claims the Sanhedrin protested the sentence, pointing out to Pilate that by law, he could not pronounce a death sentence on a “man of the book (Torah)” but only Jewish elders could do so. Pilate reportedly throws them out and they do the ritual “washing of hands” in front of the public. (Which arguably, could not have been done by Pilate, as he was the titular head of the Roman religion - for him to perform a ritual “washing of his hands” would have been heresy, as it was a rite done by Jews and not Romans.) A pretty key detail, and there’s not motivation for Notovitch or these Buddhist scribes to invent it - since they were reporting it.
What makes sense is that when the Romans adopted the gospels as their canon, they subtly changed these scenes to reflect the waffling of Pilate,and the guilt of the Sanhedrin in order to justify their killing the leader of the new religion they adopted (and the texts they likely amended.) Either way - the “Life of St. Issa” is a fascinating read, as noted above, I compared it to the literature of the day in the book “Hacking the Afterlife.” Amazon.com: Hacking the Afterlife: Practical Advice from the Flipside eBook: Richard Martini: Kindle Store
Later, there are other accounts of this same fellow, post crucifixion making his way back to India. Those accounts include the story of Yuz Asaf “the anointed one” who was traveling with his mother “Mary of virgin birth” (who is buried in Murree Pakistan.) This fellow Yuz Asaf is buried in Srinigar, and a caste of his supposed feet (hard to imagine when that occurred) is next to his tomb and shows someone whose feet had been nailed at some point in that man’s life.
Yes, there is a body of evidence that Issa traveled to India, Kashmir and Tibet. There are reports of Yuz Asaf preaching in Persia, where a local King erected a statue to him, with the quote “I am the way and the light.” The Qu’ran mentions that Issa “survived the crucifixion and went to preach in India” - as well as mentioning Issa more often than it does Mohamed. So if that’s news, then I would suggest checking into it further.
But anyone who says that there is no evidence of his appearing in India, Kashmir or Tibet hasn’t looked at the books cited above. I include in that canon the “Gospel of Thomas” from the gnostic gospels - where Thomas claims that during his trip to India, he met with Jesus again at a wedding (years later). I’ve been to the place where Thomas landed in Kerala, India, and seen the ruins of the original church erected in his honor. While the Gospel of Thomas may appear to be fantastical, an apostle named Thomas did land in India, and did preach the story of Jesus. The Christian community of Kerala can trace their beliefs back to Thomas (even though the Catholic Church has never acknowledged their existence.) 18% of Kerala is Christian, and they don’t trace their traditions to Italy, but directly to Thomas (who claims that he met with a living Jesus after he went there to begin preaching.)
HISTORIC EVIDENCE OF JESUS IN INDIA
Most accounts of Jesus in India derive from a book titled The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ, written by Nicholas Notovitch, a Russian doctor who claimed to visit the monastery of Himmis near Leh, Ladakh (Kashmir) in 1888. (10) Notovitch said that, in visiting the monastery, he reviewed written verses that described the presence there of Jesus known as "Issa." Other passages elaborate on Jesus' travels in India, his teachings, his acceptance of the Shudras and other untouchables, and his conflicts with the Brahmans and the Zoroastrian priests of Persia. Jesus supposedly arrived in India at the age of fourteen and returned to Judea at the age of twenty-nine. (11)
When appearing in 1894, Notovitch's account became immediately and widely controversial. Christian churches denounced it as a hoax. The British Church Mission in India employed a professor to find and bury the documents described by Notovitch. The Anglican Church commissioned the services of F. Max Muller, the great German scholar who taught at Oxford. Muller dismissed it, largely by challenging the two main sources, namely a book of fourteen chapters and another document titled Nath Namavali preserved by the Saddhus of Yoga Nath. Muller also cited an interview of the Himmis monastery's abbot who insisted that no documents about Jesus existed and that Notovitch never visited there. (12)
By the mid-nineteenth century, as the first translations of the Indian Vedas became published, Europeans took a great interest in the possible historic connections between Indic and European peoples, which was indicated by the movement of socalled Aryan populations beginning about 2000 bc and their occupation of northern India in 1500 BCE. Most European languages originated at least partly from Sanskrit, which the Aryans probably already found in India (due to the earlier Harappa or Saraswati civilization) and then developed and disseminated the language. A particular question was whether the Aryan populations included Semitic groups who later settled Judea and Egypt as the tribes of Israel.
Twenty-five years prior to Notovitch's expedition Muller had written, "Between the language of the Buddha and his disciples, and the language of Christ and his apostles, there are strange coincidences. Even some Buddhist legends and parables sound as if taken from the New Testament, though we know that many of them existed before the beginning of the Christian era." (13) Muller then was joined by other scholars. De Bunsen stated: "The most ancient of the Buddhistic records known to us contain statements about the life and the doctrines of Gautama Buddha which correspond in a remarkable manner, and impossibly by mere chance, with the traditions recorded in the Gospels about the life and doctrines of Jesus Christ." (14) Doane wrote, "The history of Jesus of Nazareth, as related in the books of the New Testament, is simply a copy of that of Buddha, with a mixture of mythology borrowed from other nations." (15)
Was Notovitch a fraud who took advantage of the current interest? Certainly he had a following of many frauds or fools. One was the Muslim Ahmadiyya movement founded by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who claimed that Jesus also escaped death on the cross and returned to India. Another was Levi Dowling, writer of The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ, first published in 1911 and still read today by New Age Aquarians. Dowling derived his account of Jesus in India obviously from Notovitch, although he claimed to have derived his knowledge from the so-called "Akashic Records," which are the unwritten thoughts existing within the universe that can be accessed by psychics such as himself. (16)
Notovitch's most credible supporter probably is Fida Hassnain, a retired Buddhist scholar from University of Srinagar, director of state archeology, and past head of the Kashmir Library and Archives. In a book written with Dahan Levi titled The Fifth Gospel, Hassnain restates most of the information provided by Notovitch: Jesus left Judea when he was thirteen. Traveling most of the way with merchants, he made his way via Damascus, Babylon, and Kharax to Persia and eventually to Kashmir to study and lecture. Jesus remained in India for about sixteen years; he studied Buddhism, the Vedas, and other Indic writing mostly in Kashmir, but he also lectured and traveled throughout India. At the age of twenty-nine he left India and eventually reappeared in Judea to begin his ministry. His time in Kashmir coincides exactly with his "lost years" in the gospels.
Hassnain cites other Asian sources that mention Jesus being in India. These include the following.
1. A Chinese text preserved in Tibetan called the "Glass Mirror" mentions Yesu, who was "a teacher and founder of the religion who was born miraculously, proclaimed himself the Savior of the World," and who followed Buddhist principles.
2. Twenty-one Muslim historical chronicles in Arabic refer to Issa (known as Yuz Asaph or various derivatives of this name).
3. The Persian Kamal u-Din by Said-us-Saddiq mentions Jesus in the late ninth century.
4. The Kashmiri Hindu text "Bhavishya Maha Purana" speaks about king Shalivahana (circa ad 80) meeting a foreigner calling himself Ishvara Putaram (Son of God). (17)
Buddhist records usually refer to Jesus as Issa-Masih, and Muslims use the name Yusu-Masih or some variant. One record of Jesus' sermons in Kashmir is in Bhavishya- maha-purana, written by Sutta in 115 CE. (18) Another record of Jesus' sermons in Kashmir was Tarikh-I-Kashmir, written later by the Muslim Mulla Nadri, who identified Jesus as Yuz-Asaph. (19) A Muslim record was Al-Shaikh Al-Said-us-Sadiq; Ikmal-ud-Din. (20) Another was the history of Kashmir written by Kalhana circa 1148 CE, which referred to Jesus as Isana, "the great guru" who impressed the king, Samdhi-mati. (21) A Persian account of Jesus in India is written around 900 CE by Al Shaikh Said-us-Sidiz and titled Mamal-Ud-Din. (22) Finally, the Apocalypse of Peter refers to Jesus sitting at one of the ten pillars erected in India by Ashoka: "As the Savior was sitting in the temple in the three hundredth (year) of the covenant and the agreement of the tenth pillar." (23) A passage in Song of the Yogi sung by Natha Yogas reads: "My friend Ishai has gone towards Arabia." A verse in the Puranas reads: "Having found the sacred image of Eeshai [God] in my heart, my name will be established as on the earth as Eesah Mashi [the Messiah]." (24)
Beside Hassnain, another respected supporter of Notovitch's find is Nicholas Roerich, a world-renowned painter and choreographer and founder of the Roerich Pact, an international agreement that started in 1935 and continues today that preserves historical art. In his autobiographical account of his time in India during 1923-1928, Roerich cites numerous conversations about the legend of Issa with people in Kashmir and Tibet who knew nothing of Notovitch's claims. (25) He states, "Still many other legends and manuscripts related of Issa in Asia," but he cites no particular manuscripts.
After accounts by Roerich, another persuasive rebuttal was written by Edgar J. Goodspeed. (26) One problem is that several of the sources that put Jesus in Kashmir during his lost years also put him there after his attempted crucifixion. The best known is the so-called Gospel of Thomas, which was written by Leucius at the beginning of the second century supposedly based on letters written by the apostle Thomas, who was a missionary in Taxila in the Punjab, letters that state that Jesus was there at the age of forty-nine. This and similar accounts are presented in books by Hassnain and Levi, Ahmad, and Faber. (27) Jesus was thought to have escaped death on the cross, recuperated, and fled to Kashmir to continue his practice. To this day, pilgrims and tourists alike go to the Rozaball section of Srinagar, India to visit the tomb that claims to contain the remains of Yousa-Asaf, the Muslim name for Jesus Christ. (28)
This post-crucifixion argument differs from the "lost years" argument. It has Jesus surviving a Roman persecution, leaving India for no obvious reason, living for more than one hundred years, and so on, and it contradicts numerous sources and testimonies that Jesus did die on the cross. The argument that Jesus went to India as a young man encounters none of these difficulties and contradicts nothing except vague references, and it in fact explains the otherwise unexplained biblical silence about Jesus' lost years. The critics, of course, are happy to merge the two arguments and use the latter to discredit the former argument.
Christianity is completely unaware of where Jesus was for thirty years continuously?
He appear suddenly in his thirtieth year and in the thirty-third year they are given crucifixion. He gets an accounting account for only three years. Apart from this, one or two times their life-related events are mentioned.
In this unknown, he was in a Buddhist monastery of Kashmir. It has many records. And it is also mentioned in the legends of Kashmir. In this unknown, they were meditating as a Buddhist monk. In the third year they appear in Jerusalem - after which they are crucified. According to the story of the Christians, there is a rebirth of Jesus.
But the question is, where did they disappear again after this rebirth? Christianity is absolutely silent about it. That when they went then and when their natural death occurred.
In his book "The Serpent of Paradise", a French writer says that Kai does not know where Jesus lived for thirty years and what did he do? In his thirtieth year, he started preaching.
What Jesus did from 13 years to 29 years, this is a mystery. There is no mention of anything about these years in the Bible. During this age, Jesus Christ was learning in India. Returning to Jerusalem at the age of 30, he took initiation from John.
After the initiation, they started teaching people. According to most scholars, on 29 CE, the Lord Jesus ascended the ass and reached Jerusalem. There was a conspiracy to punish them. Finally, they were caught by the opponents and hung on the cross. At that time, his age was almost 33 years.
On Sunday, Jesus entered Jerusalem. This day is called 'Palm Sunday'. On Friday, he was given a crucile, so it is called 'Good Friday', and on Sundays, only one woman (Mary Magdalene) saw her live near her grave. This event of living is celebrated as 'Easter'. After that Jesus never seen in the Jewish state.
Nicolas Notovitch, a Russian traveler, came to India in 1887. He was also in Ladakh And where he went ill he went. That's why he was housed in the famous "Hoomis-Gumpa". And there he read many texts of Buddhist literature and Buddhist weapons. There he received many references to Jesus coming here. In these Buddhist scriptures, the teachings of Jesus have also been discussed.
Later this French traveler published a book called "St. Jesus".
In this he has described all the things that he knew that Jesus had gone to Ladakh and other countries in the East.
There is a written record that Jesus walks through Ladakh, crossing the high mountainous hill peaks and reaching the place of Kashmir's initiative, Gom. Initiative Gham means "Village of Gardens" In Pahal village, they stayed with their people for a long time. This is where Jesus found the people of the lost tribe of Israel. It has been written that due to his living in this village of Jesus, it was named "Pahal Gao".
"Initiative" in Kashmiri means the meaning of Gadriya and Gama meaning village. After this, when Jesus was going to Srinagar, he had stayed and rested on the place called "Ish-Mukam" and gave instructions. Because Jesus rested on this place, hence the name of this place was named after him "Ish Mukm".
Paramahansa Yogananda the author of the book written on Jesus, claims that three scholars who came to Bethlehem after seeing the birth of Jesus were Indians, who were Buddhists. These three scholars who came from India named Jesus as 'Isa'. Which means 'God' in Sanskrit.
In Swamy Paramahansa Yogananda's book 'The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of Christ Within You', it has been claimed that the Lord Jesus spent many years in India and practiced yoga and meditation here. It has also been claimed in this book that between 13 to 30 years of age, Jesus Christ undertook intensive study and practice of Indian knowledge philosophy and yoga
When Jesus was crucified, a soldier blew his spear in his body and water and blood came out from him. This incident has been recorded in St. John's Gospel (Chapter 19 Verse 34), thus, "A soldier blew them from the spear and immediately out of the blood and water came out." That Jesus was alive on the corpses because blood could not escape from the dead body.
Jesus must die again. Either the corpses got completely and they died or all the Christians would die. Because all Christians rely on their rebirth. Jesus is resurrected and it becomes a miracle. If this were not so, the Jews would not have believed that they were the Prophet because in the prophecy it was said that the coming Christ would be in the corridor and then he would be reborn.
So they waited for it. From where they were placed in the cave, they disappeared after three days. After this he saw - at least eight people saw him in the new body. Then they disappeared. And Christianity does not have any record that they know when they die. Jesus again came to Kashmir and lived there till the age of 112. And there is still the village where they die.
In Arabic, Jesus is called "eesas’". In Kashmir they were called "Yusa-Asaf". It is also written on his grave that "it is the grave of Yusa-Asaf, who came away from a distant land" and here also indicates that he came in 1900 years ago.
Jesus was completely enlightened. Christians can not understand the incident of rebirth properly, but this can be possible by yoga. Without the yoga, the body without death can be reached in a dead state. Breathing stops, heartbeats and pulse speeds can also be stopped. For this type of procedure, he used an intensive method of yoga because if he really died then there was no possibility of his resurrection.
When the people realized that Jesus had died, they took down the corpse and gave it to his followers. According to a traditional ritual, the body was kept in a cave for three days. But on the third day the cave was found to be empty. Jesus was missing.
Traditional beliefs of a sect named "esaneej" of Christians is that the followers of Jesus treated the wounds of their bodies and brought them to consciousness and when their disciples saw them again they could not believe that this same Jesus is who died on the cross. To convince them, Jesus had to show them the wounds of his body.
These wounds were cured by his esanjee followers. In the three days of the cave, Jesus was wounding the wounds. Were recovering. And as soon as they got healed, Jesus disappeared. They had to disappear from that country because if they stayed there, then there was no doubt that they were given a slip again.
French historian, François Bernier, who came to India during Aurangzeb It is written that "People of this border region should feel like Jews after entering the Indian state after crossing the Pir Panjal mountain." While still traveling in Kashmir, it seems as if somebody has come to a Jewish state. That is why it is believed that Jesus came to Kashmir because it was the Jewish land of India.
There was a Jewish race living their. Many such stories are popular in Kashmir. Jesus has lived in the village for many years. Because of this, this place became a village. In the form of symbols, they are called Gadriya and in many villages, there are many such folklores in the present day, which has been told that a person named "Yusa-Asaf" had come here and had settled here since 1900 years ago and this village was settled by him.
Jesus was in India for seventy years and remained silent with the people who came to him for seventy years.
Christianity does not know anything about the life of Jesus. Where they meditate or how they meditate. His disciples also do not know what Jesus meant during his silence. He only recorded that Jesus went to the mountain and there he remained silent for thirty days. After that, they came back and started preaching.
The Fifth Gospel:This is a book written by Philipp Vandenberg, This book searches for aspects of the life of Jesus that can refuse to believe in the Christian world, for instance, the miraculous issues that are resurrected after birth and death from a virgin mother. The book also believes that by the age of 13 to 29, Jesus continued to visit India.
It is believed that he took initiation even in the Nath sect. Esha Nath had laid her life in the Samadhi at the time of the crucifixion. They went to the tomb, whereby people understood that they had died. He was buried in a grave after being considered dead.
Mahakatana Nath was very angry with the Jews because Isha was his disciple. Mahateetna Nath noticed by meditation that Isha Nath is suffering a lot in the grave, then he left her grandson Kaya in the Himalayas and reached Israel and pulled Jesus out of the tomb. They raised Isha from Tomb and healed their wounds and brought them back to India. His ashram was in the lower part of the Himalayas, where Isha Nath took a tomb in Pahalgam after surviving for many years.
Movies based on Christ:
Nearly 12 documents found in a vessel in 1945, near Nag Hammadi, a city in north Egypt (Egypt). After studying the years of real documents, Dan Brown wrote this novel "The Vinci Code". These documents were kept alive by group groups. Renowned painter Leonardo da Vinci was a member of such a group group, so he has hidden some formulas, some gestures in his paintings, which can be uncompressed. The film is made up of all these 'The Vinci Code.'
2. Aquarian Gospel:
In the Hollywood movie 'Aquarian Gospel', Christ has been told to travel to India. The story of the film is about the 'extinct years' of the Bible, while Jesus Christ came out on the world tour, and during this time he also raised voice against the tyranny and injustice in the caste system (in west) besides living in Buddhist monasteries.
The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ - Wikipedia
The title of the film is taken from a century-old book that explores the roots of Christianity in the Eastern countries. It is believed that in ancient Aramaic language Jesus Christ was known as Jesus or Joshua. That is why the script of the film describes the journey from Central Asia to India as 'Joshua' by Lord Jesus Christ.
It is a matter of fact that all the Gospel and historical documents should be researched or kept unaware of the above facts and kept the secret of Christianity hidden. Forever.
Thank You.
Unknown years of Jesus - Wikipedia
Jesus Christ: Was the Savior buried in Kashmir?
Tourists flock to 'Jesus's tomb' in Kashmir
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