Holger Kersten: "It is simply of vital importance to find again the path to the sources, to the eternal and central truths of Christ's message, which has been shaken almost beyond recognition by the profane ambitions of more or less secular institutions arrogating to themselves a religious authority. This is an attempt to open a way to a new future, firmly founded in the true spiritual and religious sources of the past."
Thus begins Holger Kersten's book Jesus Lived in India. This German book is a thorough, methodical, and authoritative examination of the evidence of Christ's life beyond the Middle East before the Crucifixion and in India and elsewhere after it.
This article is a summary of Kersten's exhaustive research into Christ's travels after the Crucifixion, his arrival in India with the Mother Mary, and finally his death and entombment in Kashmir. Kersten notes the many parallels of Christ's teachings with other religious [such as Buddhism] and cultural traditions and suggests that at least some of these figures may have been one and the same personality.
It is not possible, Kersten asserts, to disprove that Christ went to India. The current information documenting Christ's life [was massively edited with the burning of every known source that contradicts the Church's official story] is restricted to the gospels and the work of Church theologians. One can hardly trust these sources to be objective considering their obvious interest in maintaining the authority of their Church and its grip on the masses.
The Buddhist connection: a tulku, reincarnation, the search for a bodhisattva, and delusions of messianic (Maitreyanic) grandeur?
The Russian scholar, Nicolai Notovich, was the first to suggest that Christ may have gone to India. In 1887, Notovich, a Russian scholar and Orientalist, arrived in Kashmir during one of several journeys to the Orient. At the Zoji-la pass Notovich was a guest in a Buddhist monastery, where a monk told him of the bodhisattva saint called "Issa" [the pronunciation of Y'shua, his Jewish name, still used by Islam to refer to Jesus]. Notovich was stunned by the remarkable parallels of Issa's teachings and martyrdom with that of Christ's life, teachings, and crucifixion.
For about 16 years, Christ traveled through Turkey, Persia, Western Europe, and possibly England. He finally arrived with Mary to a place near Kashmir, where she died. After many years in Kashmir, teaching to an appreciative population, who venerated him as a great prophet, reformer, and saint, he died and was buried in a tomb in Kashmir itself [which is still there and can be visited, but attempts to disinter the body are prohibited by Islam, which has another saint buried there as well, but the area has been scanned revealing a body inexplicably buried according to Jewish custom and contrary to Islamic custom]. More
Where to find the full picture of Christianity?
The "Lost" Gospels
(BBC) "The Lost Gospels"
