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Jesus was educated in Nalanda, India

Estro Felino

Believer in free will
Premium Member
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I casually discovered this video...
A Hindu man explains the reason why no Gospel mentions what Jesus did for 18 years. That is, the Gospels tell an episode in which Jesus was 12...and then they underline that he decided to start preaching only after he turned 30.
This Hindu clarifies that Jesus was educated in Nalanda, India...for 18 years.
 

fantome profane

Anti-Woke = Anti-Justice
Premium Member
Why do people think these "missing years" are something that need explaining? Why the assumption that we should know every minute of the life of someone who lived 2000 years ago? There was no paparazzi following him around.
 

Pegg

Jehovah our God is One
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I casually discovered this video...
A Hindu man explains the reason why no Gospel mentions what Jesus did for 18 years. That is, the Gospels tell an episode in which Jesus was 12...and then they underline that he decided to start preaching only after he turned 30.
This Hindu clarifies that Jesus was educated in Nalanda, India...for 18 years.

ha, and here i was thinking he was learning the trade of a carpenter and helping around the house :eek:
 

Tabb

Active Member
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I casually discovered this video...
A Hindu man explains the reason why no Gospel mentions what Jesus did for 18 years. That is, the Gospels tell an episode in which Jesus was 12...and then they underline that he decided to start preaching only after he turned 30.
This Hindu clarifies that Jesus was educated in Nalanda, India...for 18 years.

I've actually read something similar to that but the claim was that Buddhist influence his teachings. They back it up by comparing the similarities in both teachings.
 

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
I tend to give very little credence to any claims that Jesus was educated in Nalanda which fail to mention his origins as a space alien.
 

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
Hindus who take any stock in Jesus at all are a real minority, maybe 10% at the very highest. Hindus who think this are way way less, most likely far less than 1%. So this man is speaking for himself, and it's a crazy opinion.
 

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
People have a hard enough time agreeing on what he is supposed to have taught in the Bible. I don't understand why there is such a great desire to speculate on what supposedly happened between his 12 and 30 years of age.

Then again, I wonder why they even assume he was the same person after being away for so long. Or that he existed at all.
 

YmirGF

Bodhisattva in Recovery
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I casually discovered this video...
A Hindu man explains the reason why no Gospel mentions what Jesus did for 18 years. That is, the Gospels tell an episode in which Jesus was 12...and then they underline that he decided to start preaching only after he turned 30.
This Hindu clarifies that Jesus was educated in Nalanda, India...for 18 years.
Talk about thin gruel... LOL
 

StarryNightshade

Spiritually confused Jew
Premium Member
fantôme profane;3956459 said:
Why do people think these "missing years" are something that need explaining?

I agree. The whole "Jesus was in India" or "Jesus was a Buddhist monk" theory seems like wishful thinking; which is just a nice way of saying it's probably a load of crap.
 

Jainarayan

ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय
Staff member
Premium Member
While it may be a nice premise, even I don't believe it. This sort of thing was pushed by Nicolas Notovitch in his 1887 book Life of Saint Issa. The book has been soundly discredited as challenging even the most fertile of imaginations. I can accept that Jesus was a historical person, an itinerant Jewish teacher, maybe even a yogi. However, I think a more credible explanation for his teachings is that he gave the Judaism of the time a face lift for the common people. If his teachings seem to have eastern influence, it's possible... Buddhism did reach Greece, and the Middle East is at a crossroads between the western and eastern worlds with a lot of trade and communication going on. I think that's a more likely explanation for his teachings. As for the "missing" years, he was probably working, learning, and living day to day.
 

ShivaFan

Satyameva Jayate
Premium Member
I didn't watch the video.

Nalanda was a center of liberal and religious academia for hundreds of years, both the Jain Mahavira and Siddhartha later known as the founder of Buddhism visited Nalanda, and it did become an active university for Buddhist study up until it was destroyed by the Muslim Turk invader Bakhtiyar Khilji in the late 1190s and early 1200s CE when the extensive library of ancient manuscripts dating back more than 1000 years even at that time was burned and thousands of Buddhist monks were beheaded, though some also set themself on fire in protest.

The burning of manuscripts and beheadings went on for months by the Muslim invaders, the destruction was massive so any evidence of Jesus would likely have been destroyed if indeed Nalanda was visited by Jesus.

Visitors from far away as China came to visit Nalanda. I have not seen convincing evidence that Jesus did so. However, many assume Jesus a poor person because he is said to be a carpenter. My view is he was not poor at all and was of royal blood. But I could be wrong, it isn't my realm of expertise. However, such errors in history are common, for example there are some Buddhists a century ago who believed the Buddha was poor, but my opinion is he was rich and also of royal blood like Jesus. Depictions of Buddha's hairstyle I believe reflect the actual haircut/style he had and maintained all his life despite his renunciations, only the rich could afford such a hair style.

History has many discoveries in it's past, that in time may come to light. There is never a dull moment. I once read some compelling study that Mary travelled to retire in Egypt after Jesus, I do not recall the details but it seemed compelling. Many underestimate the technology and travel ability of humans in the "ancient times". I have been reading a book "Mona Lisa Revealed" and what struck me as it described the daily life of society both rich and poor in Italy at that time was just how advanced they really were, that humans have been great minds and travelers for a long, long time and also I felt that, while they didn't have cellphones they were exactly like so many of us today.
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sojourner

Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
There's also the story of how Jesus went with his uncle (a metalsmith) to England, near Glastonbury, on trips to buy tin (there are tin mines near there), and stayed for a few years.
 

Estro Felino

Believer in free will
Premium Member
yeah...exactly. Jesus may have traveled to Egypt and Syria...in his life.
but he could have never afforded a journey to India.
 

Ingledsva

HEATHEN ALASKAN
yeah...exactly. Jesus may have traveled to Egypt and Syria...in his life.
but he could have never afforded a journey to India.



Maybe he didn't have to.


There are ancient historians that tell us the Hebrew originally came from India.


Perhaps he just revived some Eastern thought, long lost. :shrug:


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Jainarayan

ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय
Staff member
Premium Member
There are ancient historians that tell us the Hebrew originally came from India.

That stretches historical and comparative linguistics to the breaking point. Hebrew is of the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family, which includes several language families in sub-Saharan Africa. Hebrew is related to ancient Egyptian, Arabic, Phoenician, Canaanite, Aramaic, Akkadian, and many others, descended from Proto-Semitic, in turn descended from Proto-Afroasiatic. The languages of India are Indoeuropean and Dravidian. No link between the three language families can be proven, even between their reconstructed proto languages. What some writers and "historians" will do to fit square pegs into round holes never ceases to amaze me.
 

George-ananda

Advaita Vedanta, Theosophy, Spiritualism
Premium Member
The teachers I most respect say Jesus was a monk in northern India. I think it is likely true.
 

Ingledsva

HEATHEN ALASKAN
That stretches historical and comparative linguistics to the breaking point. Hebrew is of the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family, which includes several language families in sub-Saharan Africa. Hebrew is related to ancient Egyptian, Arabic, Phoenician, Canaanite, Aramaic, Akkadian, and many others, descended from Proto-Semitic, in turn descended from Proto-Afroasiatic. The languages of India are Indoeuropean and Dravidian. No link between the three language families can be proven, even between their reconstructed proto languages. What some writers and "historians" will do to fit square pegs into round holes never ceases to amaze me.


Don't blow a cork - Dude. I'm just telling you what these ancient historians said. Don't forget they are actually Canaanites.


And I will add that many people have noted similarities in the religions, and some of the language. Such as nachash from naga, and both having the same meaning - Serpent, Serpent hiss, Sorcerer, Sorcerer's hissed incantation, in both lands, etc. It is very interesting.



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