Jesus-Buddhism?

[Darwin]

Just a brief question to get the ball rolling.

I hear some say that Jesus as we know him,did (possibly) study buddhism in some time of his life,this would have required some amount of travelling and probably would require some proficiency in languages.
Unfortunately this is all I know.

What do those "in charge" think?

[Jet Grind]

Originally posted by Darwin
I hear some say that Jesus as we know him,did (possibly) study buddhism in some time of his life...

What historical evidence is there for that?

[Darwin]

I´ve got nothing to give.

I´m waiting for theists to falsify or confirm the possibility of this.

[Dancing David]

Its certainly one of the myths surrounding 'the missing years of Jesus's life'. People in the ancient world certainly travelled around, it's not like Marco Polo did anything new.
Some have claimed that Jesus's teaching is a form of buddhism, I am not so sure.

[Upchurch]

Originally posted by Darwin
I hear some say that Jesus as we know him,did (possibly) study buddhism in some time of his life,this would have required some amount of travelling and probably would require some proficiency in languages. This premise was the basis of the historical fiction comedy Lamb : The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380813815/qid=1055174273/sr=8-5/ref=sr_8_5/002-0194454-1332065?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) by Christopher Moore.

A brief synopsis is that those 30 missing years were the time that Joshua (Jesus's name before the Greeks bastardized it) sets off with his more worldly friend Biff in search of the three Oriental wise men who visited at his birth in an attempt to understand what it means to be the messiah and what one is supposed to do when one is the messiah. Yes, there is a lot of satire and flat out humor (I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats) in the book, but there is also a fair amount of comparitive religious analysis.

In way of brief explination, Biff was expunged from the Bible (except for a few brief mentions) after the fact because he was deemed too inappropriate. :D

I highly recomend it for both its entertainment and educational values.

[uneasy]

But the basic premise of the religions don't match. For example, that Jesus would study a religion that teaches everyone is on their own to find salvation, then come back and say no one reaches the father but through the son wouldn't make sense. So it doesn't seem likely.

Anway, we all know Jesus was in Ireland for those years. :)

[Upchurch]

Originally posted by uneasy
But the basic premise of the religions don't match. For example, that Jesus would study a religion that teaches everyone is on their own to find salvation, then come back and say no one reaches the father but through the son wouldn't make sense. So it doesn't seem likely.

Anway, we all know Jesus was in Ireland for those years. :) Well, admitedly, the book I refered to did imply that much of the dogma added onto Christianity got the central message wrong. But it presented it in such a way that it would be understandable how they could have reached that conclusion.