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When Jesus met Buddha

Something remarkable happened when evangelists for two great religions crossed paths more than 1,000 years ago: they got along
By Philip Jenkins
December 14, 2008

WAS THE BUDDHA a demon?

While few mainline Christians would put the matter in such confrontational terms, any religion claiming exclusive access to truth has real difficulties reconciling other great faiths into its cosmic scheme. Most Christian churches hold that Jesus alone is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and many also feel an obligation to carry that message to the world’s unbelievers. But this creates a fundamental conflict with the followers of famous spiritual figures like Mohammed or Buddha, who preached radically different messages. Drawing on a strict interpretation of the Bible, some Christians see these rival faiths as not merely false, but as deliberate traps set by the forces of evil.

Issa Scriptures

Excerpt from Chapter 4 of In Search of the Loving God:

. . .The manuscripts read to Notovitch were from two volumes of Tibetan writings. He was told that the Pali manuscripts they were translated from were in Lhasa in Tibet.[10] Notovitch published these scriptures, amidst considerable controversy, in his book The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ, and there has been an enduring interest in his work.

Although most of the details of these Issa Scriptures square with what we know about Jesus from the Bible, one very significant difference stands out: all four Gospels blame the Jews for Jesus’ death, whereas the Issa Scriptures clearly put the full blame at the feet of the Roman governor, Pilate, and actually credit the Jewish authorities with going out of their way to try to save Jesus. The significance of this lies in the fact that in recent years a number of Jewish and other scholars have been arguing the same contention. They have pointed out that the Gospels were gentile documents, written after the fall of Jerusalem in order to spread the teachings of Jesus amongst citizens of the Roman Empire, and that it is quite possible the blame for Jesus’ death was shifted to the Jews so as not to offend the Roman citizens they were trying to convert.[11] This ties in, it must be said, with the lack of historical reliability of the Gospels

Jesus Went To India – Twice

You may have read the Book Jesus Lived in India (Holger Kersten. 1986. Element Books), a book that goes over the lost years of Jesus from the time of his childhood to when he returned to Israel in his mid-thirties, a gap of about 18 years.
” A short introductory section precedes a brief description of the early history of the people of Israel and the life of Moses. An account then follows of how the eternal Spirit resolves to take on human form ’so that he might demonstrate by his own example how moral purity may be attained, and by freeing the soul from its rude mortality, achieve the degree of perfection required to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, which is

The Gnostic Gospel
Elaine Pagels
Vintage Books, 1979

1) “Orthodox Jews and Christians insist that a chasm separates humanity from its creator: God is wholly other. But some of the gnostics who wrote these gospels contradict this: self- knowledge is knowledge of God; the self and the divine are identical.

Second, the “living Jesus” of these texts speaks of illusion and enlightenment, not of sin and repentance, like the Jesus of the New Testament. Instead of coming to save us from sin, he comes as a guide who opens access to spiritual understanding. But when the disciples attains enlightenment, Jesus no longer serves as his spiritual master: the two