"The Life of St Issa
The claim that Jesus spent his missing years in India originated with Nicholas Notovitch's The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ in 1894. Notovitch, a Russian journalist, claimed he had found documents in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery which described Jesus' life. In these scrolls Jesus was known as St Issa. At the age of 12 he left Jerusalem for India where he studied the Vedas. He was welcomed by the outcasts for his wisdom and miracles but the Brahman priests grew jealous and sent St Issa away. He journeyed to Kashmir and Tibet. In Tibet he mastered the Buddhist Scriptures and then returned to Palestine to preach."
"AN AMAZING CONNECTION
The ties between Jesus and Britain are many. The traditions surrounding Glastonbury make it certain that Jesus spent much time there. God has been "grooming" Britain all through history. From the arrival of Brutus in 1103 BC, Jeremiah in Ireland in 583 BC, the Druid (Hebrew) Priests, the Megalith Builders of prehistory, and the endless waves of Celts and Scythians that migrated to that area, I think we can conclude that Britain has a part in God's plan.
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In another place, I'll be offering evidence of the family ties of the British Royalty to the Roman Royalty. The story reads like a Payton Place of History. Inter-marriages and intrigue. Love and War. Good and Evil. It's all there. Why, the Roman Emperor who ended centuries of Christian persecution, and declared Christianity the religion of the state, Constantine the Great, was born and raised, in Britain. And was half British, on his mother's side.
There is a quite God-typical connection to those Royal folks. Joseph of Arimathea, who was Mary's uncle. He was Jesus' great-uncle and guardian after Joseph the carpenter died; somewhat early in Jesus' life."
"The School for Scandal is a play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It was first performed in London at Drury Lane Theatre on May 8, 1777.
Act IV
Scene I: Charles sells all but one of the family portraits to "Premium", using the rolled-up family tree as an auction-hammer. However, he refuses to sell the last portrait, which is of Sir Oliver, out of respect for his benefactor; Charles will not sell it even when "Premium" offers as much for it as for all the rest. Moved, Sir Oliver inwardly forgives Charles. Sir Oliver and Moses leave, and Charles sends a hundred pounds of the proceeds for the relief of "Mr. Stanley," despite Rowley's objection."
"Act IV
Scene 1
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"Chas. Surf. Ay, ay, these are done in the true spirit of portrait-painting; no volontière grace or expression. Not like the works of your modern Raphaels, who give you the strongest resemblance, yet contrive to make your portrait independent of you; so that you may sink the original and not hurt the picture. No no; the merit of these is the inveterate likeness—all stiff and awkward as the originals, and like nothing in human nature besides.
5 Sir Oliv. Ah! we shall never see such figures of men again.
6 Chas. Surf. I hope not. Well, you see, Master Premium, what a domestic character I am; here I sit of an evening surrounded by my family. But come, get to your pulpit, Mr. Auctioneer; here’s an old gouty chair of my grandfather’s will answer the purpose.
7 Care. Ay, ay, this will do. But, Charles, I haven’t a hammers: and what’s an auctioneer without his hammer?
8 Chas. Surf. Egad, that’s true. What parchment have we here? Oh, our genealogy in full. [Taking pedigree down.] Here Careless, you shall have no common bit of mahogany, here’s the family tree for you, you rogue! This shall be your hammer, and now you may knock down my ancestors with their own pedigree."
(((After some time of going through the pictures and deciding fair prices for them)))
"Sir Oliv. Well, well, any thing to accommodate you; they are mine. But there is one portrait which you have always passed over.
37 Care. What, that ill-looking little fellow over the settee! Sir Oliv. Yes, sir, I mean that; though I don’t think him so ill-looking a little fellow, by any means.
38 Chas. Surf. What, that? Oh; that’s my uncle Oliver! ’twas done before he went to India.
39 Care. Your uncle Oliver! Gad, then you’ll never be friends, Charles. That, now, to me, is as stern a looking rogue as ever I saw; an unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance! an inveterate knave, depend on’t. Don’t you think so, little Premium?
40 Sir Oliv. Upon my soul, sir, I do not; I think it is as honest a looking face as any in the room, dead or alive. But I suppose uncle Oliver goes with the rest of the lumber?
41 Chas. Surf. No, hang it! I’ll not part with poor Noll. The old fellow has been very good to me, and, egad, I’ll keep his picture while I’ve a room to put it in.
42 Sir Oliv. [Aside.] The rogue’s my nephew after all!—[Aloud.] But, sir, I have somehow taken a fancy to that picture.
43 Chas. Surf. I’m sorry for’t, for you certainly will not have it. Oons, haven’t you got enough of them?
44 Sir Oliv. [Aside.] I forgive him every thing!—[Aloud.] But, sir, when I take a whim in my head, I don’t value money. I’ll give you as much for that as for all the rest.
45 Chas. Surf. Don’t tease me, master broker; I tell you I’ll not part with it, and there’s an end of it.
46 Sir Oliv. [Aside.] How like his father the dog is!—[Aloud.] Well, well, I have done.—[Aside.] I did not perceive it before, but I think I never saw such a striking resemblance.—[Aloud.] Here is a draft for your sum.
47 Chas. Surf. Why, ’tis for eight hundred pounds!
48 Sir Oliv. You will not let Sir Oliver go?
49 Chas. Surf. Zounds! no! I tell you, once more."
Originally posted by Highlander64
I got as far as your first link, which you may not have fully read
allow me to quote from the 6th paragraph:
So the evidence shows that Jesus could hardly have been a student of Buddhism in Tibet in the first century AD. What much also be noted is that what St Isaa teaches bears almost no resemblance to Buddhist teachings.
In 1895 J.A. Douglas, a professor at Government College in Agra, India retraced Notovitch's steps to Tibet.
He interviewed the Head Abbot at the Monastery where Notovitch claimed the scrolls were. Douglas obtained an affidavit from the Abbot denouncing Notovitch's story as a lie.
Douglas established there were no scrolls about St Issa or Jesus. He published his findings in the popular monthly journal The Nineteenth Century (The Chief Lama of Himis on the Alleged Unknown Life of Christ April 1896).
so there's a great contradiction off the bat
I hope there's someone here that is smart enough, and willing to take the time, to come to a conclusion and present it in a fashion in which everyone can understand...
I doubt anyone will, but you can always volunteer
you know, I often go outside and go to trim the hedge with an electric cutter - there's always a spot where the power cord looks like it will reach but every time I try it just won't connect and I have both ends in my hands but can't join them together - much like the links you are trying to establish here
anyhow, I commend your work ethics in gathering the info for the OP
