[24] William Blake’s early 19th-century poem And did those feet in ancient time was inspired by the story of Jesus travelling to Britain. Jesus' words are recorded along with both Mary's in the Coptic Askew Codex found in 1773 in Egypt and the Essenes can also be associated with the Pistis Sophia, Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hammadi Scriptures. John Dominic Crossan states that none of the theories presented about the travels of Jesus to fill the gap between his early life and the start of his ministry have been supported by modern scholarship. Ibn Babawayh (d.991 CE) in Ikhmal ad-Din recounts that Jesus went to a far country. It is the opposite... […] Quran was written in the 7th century CE. So this hypothesis seems to hold no credence at all. Beskow updated his conclusions in English in 2011. Hiltebeitel (2009) establishes 1739 as the very earliest possible date for the section. အဲ ့ဒါေတာ့ ကိုယ့္ဘာသာကိုယ္ Google ထဲ မွာ ရွာၾကည့္ေတာ့ေနာ္။ သယ္ရင္းတို ့Wireless network ထဲမွာ (security type) ... ၁။ ငါသည္ သင္တုိ႕၏ေရာဂါကုိ ၿငိမ္းေစေသာ ထာ၀ရဘုရား ျဖစ္၏။ (ထြက္ေျမာက္ရာ၊ ၁၅း၂၆) ၂။ သူသည္ နာဖ်ား၍ တံုးလံုးေနေသာအခါ ထာ၀ရဘုရာ... ခရစ္ေတာ္႐ွင္ျပန္ထေျမာက္ျခင္းေၾကာင့္ ကၽြႏု္ပ္တုိ႕၏ယုံၾကည္ျခင္း၊ အသက္႐ွင္ျခင္း၊ ကုိးကြယ္ရျခင္း၊ ေဟာေျပာရျခင္း၊ တမလြန္ဘ၀ အားလုံးတုိ႕အ... ဆယ္ဖုိ႔တစ္ဖို႔သည္ ဓမၼေဟာင္း ကာလက ေဖာ္ျပ ခဲ့ေသာ အေၾကာင္း အရာ တစ္ခုျဖစ္ျပီး၊ ဓမၼသစ္ ကာလႏွင့္ မည္သုိ႔မွ် မသက္ဆိုင္ေၾကာင္း ယံုၾကည္သူအခ်ိဳ႕ ... Death in Kashmir after surviving crucifixion. [23], The story of Jesus visiting Britain as a boy is a late medieval development based on legends connected with Joseph of Arimathea. Jesus in the workshop of Joseph the Carpenter, by Georges de La Tour, the 1640s. [46], In his 1957 book “The Wisdom of Balahvar,” David Marshall Lang presented evidence of how confusion in diacritical markings in Arabic texts transformed Budhasaf (Buddha-to-be) into Yudasaf, Iodasaph, and then Yuzasaf, and resulted in the Ahmadiyya assertions; also confusing Kashmir and Kushinara, the place of Buddha’s death. Buddhism was known in the pre-Christian Greek world, and hence the later Roman Empire, through the campaigns of Alexander the Great. Youza Asaf, Youza Asaph, Youza Asouph, Yuz Asaf, Yuzu Asaf, Yuzu Asif, or Yuzasaf, are Arabic and Urdu variations of the name Josaphat, and are primarily connected with Christianized and Islamized versions of the life of the Buddha found in the legend of Barlaam and Josaphat. Jesus is understood to have survived the crucifixion based on the account of the gospels, hadith, and the Quran. However, Jacolliot was comparing two different periods of history (or mythology) and did not claim that Jesus was in India. The unknown years of Jesus (also called his silent years, lost years, or missing years) generally refers to the period of Jesus’s life between his childhood and the beginning of his ministry, a period not described in the New Testament. [4][7][8][9] Legends and stories though are not at the base of the Essenes hypothesis above and perhaps the others, for ancient documents exist to support it - with direct records of Jesus' words not present in the New Testament but held within the Wisdom tradition and found together with uncorrupted documents of the Old Testament hidden out of sight so are not likely to have been arbitrary in their consideration. The Roza Bal or Rouza Bal or Rozabal is a shrine located in the Khanyar quarter in downtown area of Srinagar in Kashmir, India. In some versions, Joseph was supposedly a tin merchant and took Jesus under his care when his mother Mary was widowed. In some versions, Joseph was supposedly a tin merchant and took Jesus under his care when his mother Mary was widowed. Jesus the Man: New Interpretations from the Dead Sea Scrolls is a book written by the Australian biblical scholar and theologian Barbara Thiering. 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. Hiltebeitel (2009) establishes 1739 as the very earliest possible date for the section. Marcus Borg states that the suggestions that an adult Jesus traveled to Egypt or India and came into contact with Buddhism are “without historical foundation”. [15], Christians have generally taken the statement in Mark 6:3 referring to Jesus as “Is not this the carpenter…?” as an indication that before the age of 30 Jesus had been working as a carpenter. The unknown years of Jesus (also called his silent years, lost years, or missing years) generally refers to the period of Jesus's life between his childhood and the beginning of his ministry, a period not described in the New Testament. [29] However, according to Max Müller, that is not a Sanskrit term at all and “it was simply invented” by Jacolliot. This theme is elaborated upon in Boron's sequels and in subsequent Arthurian works penned by others. Buddhist missionaries were sent by Emperor Ashoka of India to Syria, Egypt and Greece beginning in 250 BCE and may have helped prepare for the ethics of Christ. Modern scholars such as Norbert Klatt (1988) have rejected Ghulam Ahmad's use of these latter sources as misreadings of material unrelated to Jesus. [11] Schneemelcher states that Kersten combines elements from various previous authors such as Notovitch, Ahmadiyya beliefs, and Levi Dowling. Others have noted the significant differences between the two religions beginning with monotheism's place at the core of Christianity, and Buddhism's orientation towards non-theism which runs counter to teachings about God in Christianity; and extending to the importance of grace in Christianity against the rejection of interference with karma in Theravada Buddhism, etc. The Tarikh-i-Kashmir refers to several history books of Kashmir's Sultanate period, some of them lost and partially used as sources for the others. It was first published by Doubleday in 1992 with the title, Jesus & The Riddle of The Dead Sea Scrolls: Unlocking The Secrets of His Life Story. [10][56], In 1995, Kenneth Hosking also suggested that Jesus survived crucifixion, but stated that Jesus was the Teacher of Righteousness mentioned in the Dead Sea Scrolls and decades later (73-74 AD) died as the leader of the Jewish forces which unsuccessfully fought the Romans during the Siege of Masada.[10][57]. also approve this Gospel. Das Ende einer Legende (Munich, 1985). [49] This theory of Meher Baba was endorsed by other masters like Swamy Abhedananda, Shankaracharya, etc. [11] Gerald O’Collins also states that Kersten’s work is simply the repackaging of a legend for consumption by the general public. Charlesworth (2008) explains this as due to the canonical Gospels having left “a narrative vacuum” that many have attempted to fill. [17][18], The historical record of the large number of workmen employed in the rebuilding of Sepphoris has led Batey (1984) and others to suggest that when Jesus was in his teens and twenties carpenters would have found more employment at Sepphoris rather than at the small town of Nazareth. [29], Jacolliot compared the accounts of the life of Bhagavan Krishna with that of Jesus Christ in the gospels and concluded that it could not have been a coincidence that the two stories have so many similarities in many of the finer details. They identify the holy man Yuz Asaf buried at the Roza Bal shrine in Srinagar, India as Jesus on the basis of an account in the, According to Indian spiritual master Meher Baba, when Jesus was crucified, he did not die physically. The unknown years of Jesus (also called his silent years, lost years, or missing years) generally refers to the period of Jesus's life between his childhood and the beginning of his ministry, a period not described in the New Testament. Learn how your comment data is processed. [22], The New Testament Apocrypha and early Christian pseudepigrapha preserve various pious legends filling the “gaps” in Christ’s youth. Paul Davids is an American independent filmmaker and writer, especially in the area of science fiction. [50], In 1981, Holger Kersten, a German writer on esoteric subjects popularised the subject in his Christ Lived in India. [11] Gerald O’Collins also states that Kersten’s work is simply the repackaging of a legend for consumption by the general public. [4][6] Modern mainstream Christian scholarship has generally rejected these theories and holds that nothing is known about this time period in the life of Jesus. Chaitanya, Brahmachari Bhairab; Swami Abhedananda’s Journey into Kashmir and Tibet; Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, Calcutta, 1987 (first published in Bengali in 1929) pp.119-121, 164-166; Richard, Hooper; Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, and Lao Tzu; 2012 p. 176, Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window), Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window), “Jesus ‘may have visited England’, says Scottish academic”, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, “8. [11] [12], The traditional Islamic views on Jesus' death don't propose later years of Jesus, since based on the statements in Quran 4:157-4:158, most Muslims believe Jesus was raised to Heaven without being put on the cross and God transformed another person (at times interpreted as Judas Iscariot or Simon of Cyrene) to appear exactly like Jesus who was crucified instead of Jesus. Forgeries, Lies, Deceptions, and the Writings of the New Testament. Marcus Borg states that the suggestions that an adult Jesus traveled to Egypt or India and came into contact with Buddhism are “without historical foundation”.