In
the late 19th century a Russian doctor named Nicolas Notovitch traveled
extensively throughout India, Tibet, and Afghanistan. He chronicled his
experiences and discoveries in his 1894 book The Unknown Life of Christ. At one
point during his voyage, Notovitch broke his leg in 1887 and recuperated at the
Tibetan Buddhist Monastery of Hemis in the city of Leh, at the very top of
India. It was here where monks showed Notovitch two large yellowed volumes of a
document written in Tibetan, entitled The Life of Saint Issa. During his time
at the monastery, Notovitch translated the document which tells the true story
of a child named Jesus (i.e. Issa = “son of God”) born in the first century to
a poor family in Israel. Jesus was referred to as “the son of God” by the Vedic scholars who tutored him in the sacred Buddhist texts from the age of 13 to 29.
Notovitch translated 200 of the 224 verses from the document.
During
his time at the monastery in 1887, one lama explained to Notovitch the full
scope and extreme level of enlightenment that Jesus had reached. “Issa [Jesus]
is a great prophet, one of the first after the twenty-two Buddhas,” the lama
tells Notovitch. “He is greater than any one of all the Dalai Lamas, for he
constitutes part of the spirituality of our Lord. It is he who has enlightened
you, who has brought back within the pale of religion the souls of the
frivolous, and who has allowed each human being to distinguish between good and
evil. His name and his acts are recorded in our sacred writings. And in reading
of his wondrous existence, passed in the midst of an erring and wayward people,
we weep at the horrible sin of the pagans who, after having tortured him, put
him to death.”
The
discovery of Jesus’s time in India lines up perfectly with The Lost Years of
Jesus, as well as with the degree of significance of his birth in the Middle
East. When a great Buddhist, or Holy Man (i.e. Lama), dies, wise men consult
the stars and other omens and set off — often on extraordinarily long journeys
— to find the infant who is the reincarnation of the Lama. When the child is
old enough he is taken away from his parents and educated in the Buddhist
faith. Experts speculate that this is the foundational origin of the story of
the Three Wise Men, and it is now believed Jesus was taken to India at 13 and
taught as a Buddhist. At the time, Buddhism was already a 500-year-old religion
and Christianity, of course, had not even begun.
“Jesus
is said to have visited our land and Kashmir to study Buddhism. He was inspired
by the laws and wisdom of Buddha,” a senior lama of the Hemis monastery told
the IANS news agency. The head of the Drukpa Buddhist sect, Gwalyang Drukpa,
who heads the Hemis monastery, also confirms the story. The 224 verses have
since been documented by others, including Russian philosopher and scientist,
Nicholas Roerich, who in 1952 recorded accounts of Jesus’s time at the
monastery. “Jesus passed his time in several ancient cities of India such as
Benares or Varanasi. Everyone loved him because Issa dwelt in peace with the
Vaishyas and Shudras whom he instructed and helped,” writes Roerich.
Jesus
spent some time teaching in the ancient holy cities of Jagannath (Puri),
Benares (in Uttar Pradesh), and Rajagriha (in Bihar), which provoked the
Brahmins to excommunicate him which forced him to flee to the Himalayas where
he spent another six years studying Buddhism.
German
scholar, Holger Kersten, also writes of the early years of Jesus in India in
the book Jesus Lived In India. “The lad arrives in a region of the Sindh (along
the river Indus) in the company of merchants,” writes Kersten. “He settled
among the Aryans with the intention of perfecting himself and learning from the
laws of the great Buddha. He travelled extensively through the land of the five
rivers (Punjab), stayed briefly with the Jains before proceeding to Jagannath.”
And
in the BBC documentary, Jesus Was A Buddhist Monk, experts theorize that Jesus
escaped his crucifixion, and in his mid-late 30s he returned to the land he
loved so much. He not only escaped death, but he also visited with the Jewish
settlers in Afghanistan who had escaped similar tyranny of the Jewish emperor
Nebuchadnezzar. Locals confirm that Jesus spent the next several years in the
Kashmir Valley where he lived happily until his death at 80-years-old. With
sixteen years of his youth spent in the region, as well as approximately his
last 45, that means Jesus spent a total of roughy 61 to 65 years of his life in
India, Tibet, and the neighboring area. Locals believe he is buried at the RozaBal shrine at Srinagar in India-controlled Kashmir. The BBC visited the shrine
and you can read about what they found HERE.
Source : moon-child.net