22. LOST YEARS OF JESUS

 BBC Doc Claims Jesus Was A Buddhist Monk Named Issa Who Spent 16+ Years In India & Tibet.

The life of Jesus is a subject of unending curiosity. There is no record of any kind of his life from the ages 13 to 29, and therefore these years are known as ‘the lost years’. Until a discovery, that was backed pretty well too, came up in 1887.

Nicholas Notovitch, a Russian doctor traveled across India, Afghanistan, and Tibet in the 19th century pretty extensively. It was during this trip when he broke his leg and took shelter in the Buddhist monastery of Hemis in Leh, which is in India. He was shown documents and papers that held in the stories of a child named Issa (which means child of God) and was called The Life of Saint Issa.

According to the scrolls, Jesus abandoned Jerusalem at the age of 13 and set out towards Sind, “intending to improve and perfect himself in the divine understanding and to studying the laws of the great Buddha”. He crossed Punjab and reached Puri Jagannath where he studied the Vedas under Brahmin priests. He spent six years in Puri and Rajgirh, near Nalanda, the ancient seat of Hindu learning. Then he went to the Himalayas, and spent time in Tibetan monasteries, studying Buddhism, and through Persia, returned to Jerusalem at the age of 29.

These documents say that Issa was born to a poor family in Israel back in the first century. The monks who taught him the sacred Buddhist texts called him the ‘Son of God’, which is Issa. In some texts, he is known as “Issa Masih”.

These documents tell us that Jesus did not spend all his time at the monastery either. He also roamed around spreading knowledge. Jesus is believed to have been greatly inspired by the Buddhist texts. He moved around in Puri, Benares, and Rajagriha to teach Buddhism but was chased out by the Brahmins. After that, he fled back to the Himalayas to continue his study of Buddhism.

Holger Kersten, a German Scholar also published a book titled “Jesus Lived in India”, in which he claims that he moved around Punjab, the land of five rivers and had arrived with merchants in Sindh before he found his way to the Himalayas.

There is a BBC produced documentary called “Jesus was a Buddhist Monk”. It tells the story of how he had managed to flee his crucifixion and had gone back to the place where he had basically grown up and spent the rest of his life in Kashmir, while sometimes visiting the neighboring areas of Tibet.

According to Indian spiritual master Meher Baba (1894-1963), when Jesus was crucified, he did not die physically. But, he entered the state of Nirvikalp Samadhi (the I-am-God state without bodily consciousness). On the third day, he again became conscious of his body, and he travelled secretly in disguise eastward with some apostles, most importantly with Bartholomew and Thaddeus, to India. This was called Jesus' resurrection. After reaching India, Jesus travelled further east to Rangoon, in Burma, where he remained for some time. He then went north to Kashmir, where he settled. After Jesus's spiritual work was completed, Jesus subsequently dropped his body, and the body was buried by the Two Apostles in Harvan, at Kan Yar, district of Kashmir.