Lost years of Jesus: Difference between revisions

There is no record in the Bible of [[Jesus]]’ whereabouts between the age of twelve, when he was in the temple in Jerusalem discoursing with the rabbis, and age thirty, when we see him at the River Jordan being baptized. Those intervening years—the so-called “lost years”—are the most important years of Jesus’ life because in those years he became who he was and prepared himself for his Palestinian mission.  

Ancient Buddhist manuscripts that say Jesus spent those “lost years” in the East. These texts were originally recorded in Pali, the sacred language of the Theravada Buddhist canon. Later they were translated into Tibetan. The manuscripts were discovered in November 1887 by Russian journalist Nicolas Notovitch at Himis, this Buddhist monastery near Leh, Ladakh. In 1894, Notovitch published a translation of those texts as ''The life of Saint Issa''.

According to the manuscripts, at age thirteen Jesus departed Jerusalem with merchants and set out towards the Sind “with the object of perfecting himself in the Divine Word and of studying the laws of the great Buddhas.” At age fourteen he crossed the Sind, a region in present-day southeast Pakistan in the lower Indus River valley. He then established himself among the Aryas.  

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