[50], 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;[32] also confusing Kashmir and Kushinara, the place of Buddha's death. You didn't know Jesus was missing? Then he went to the Himalayas, and spent time in Tibetan monasteries, studying Buddhism,[32] and through Persia, returned to Jerusalem at the age of 29. However Indologists such as Grönbold note that this section postdates not just the Quran,[56] but also the Mughals. The book and film cover Martin's search for Notovitch's claimed "Life of Issa. Evidences of Christ in the Americas are claimed in the Book of Mormon in the book of 3 Nephi, chapters 11-18. You may discover why writer Len Kasten, in the March / April 2009 issue of Atlantis Rising, says: "this film, some think, has the potential to revolutionize Christianity...". as an indication that before the age of 30 Jesus had been working as a carpenter. [63], Although not the official beliefs of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, some individuals compare Christ's visit to legends of Viracocha in South America, and Quetzalcoatl [64] in Central America. [18][19], 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. He grew garlic!! Modern mainstream Christian scholarship has generally rejected any travels by Jesus to India, Tibet or surrounding areas as without historical basis: The swoon hypothesis in critical western literature concerns later years of Jesus after the crucifixion, with a range of hypotheses that suggest later death in Kashmir,[32] Rome, Japan, or during the Siege of Masada in Roman Judea. If it turns out that this is a "Cavalcade of Crackpots," it fits neatly with my other films, which usually seem to be about the "crackpots" who are gifted philosophers, artists, geniuses and honorable men through the centuries, all of whom were considered outcasts in their time. [42][43], In 1908, Levi H. Dowling published the Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ which he claimed was channeled to him from the "Akashic Records" as the true story of the life of Jesus, including "the 'lost' eighteen years silent in the New Testament." He died aged 106!! So, where did Jesus go, with the missing years not mentioned in the bible.? Jacolliot used the spelling "Christna" instead of "Krishna" and claimed that Krishna's disciples gave him the name "Jezeus," a name supposed to mean "pure essence" in Sanskrit. [11][59], Some people in Japan have believed that Jesus visited them during the lost years and possibly survived the crucifixion to remain in Japan for the rest of his life. [32] 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 History of Kashmir by the Sufi poet Khwaja Muhammad Azam Didamari (1747) that the holy man Yuz Asaf buried there was a prophet and a foreign prince. 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”. While some Latter-day Saint scholars have interpreted Quetzalcoatl legends to represent Jesus, Latter-day Saint author Brant Gardner, after investigating the link between Quetzalcoatl and Jesus, concluded that the association amounts to nothing more than folklore.