Was Jesus a Buddhist?

Has anyone saw the Movie "The Man from Earth"?
It is somehow based on this idea... A really intersting Movie!

Yes. Both Buddha and Kung Fu Tse aka Confucius predated Jesus by 600 years. Jesus had to have been influenced by their Taoist duality. The first thing I noticed after reading the Kung Fu Meditations was that Jesus' paradoxical thinking was perfectly parallel to the Zen Bhuddist philosophy. On the Moodscapes (Dish satelite radio) channel Riley Lee, who does Chinese Bhuddist music aires a song entitled Sacred Christian Lullaby with the traditional Chinese instruments. So it realy doesn't matter if Catholics have a clue, does it ? Their ideas of Jesus involve a religious organization which is political and they educate their followers in religious schools. So long as we Bhuddists who are enlightened, recognize that Jesus was enlightened too, that's all that realy matters.

Obviously Jesus was a frequent flyer and donated his free travel miles to the poor!

Who cares?

Jesus visited the Himalayan shrines. He traveled extensively throughout the world before he began his career as a teacher in Palestine. He had learned the language of Mu, which is the earliest language that later evolved into Maya, Inca, Aztec, and Olmec. When the ocean levels were much lower, over 300 feet lower than they are now, there were entire continents that were visible and inhabited by people.

One of them was referred to as Atlantis, but there was also, Mu and Lemuria.

These civiizations existed 30K to 50K years ago. When global warming occurred and melted the glaciers, the ocean levels rose, and Atlantis, Mu and Lemuria disappeared, but their people scattered to the highlands and mountains of the world and took their languages and religion with them.

Even today there are striking similarities between the inhabitants of Tibet and the Incans, Mayans, and Aztecs.

Jesus learned about this history from teachers at the Himalayan shrines.

....anything is possible. what do we know of the past that is not already documented.

Here's a good one, since Jesus was a carpenter he was a union member of the carpenters union and fought union rights!

....did Jesus ever existed in the first place?......I mean,...really...

And Buddah was a Hindu. And Abraham a pagan. etc, etc etc.. Yawn. It would be cool to see some ACTUAL evidence.

Just as valid....was the tooth fairy a Presbyterian?

Asherp, you are right, The Tao Te Ching and the book of Psalms are very similar.

Anybody ever think to wonder that the buddhist may have come to him???

I interperate the New Testament through the lens of the Tao Te Ching. It makes so much more sense that way.

Whether Jesus really was Buddhist or not, his teachings might as well be, and the two compliment one another, as does the Tao.

Also , the ritual of the mass is like the ancient greek mystery religions . (the bread and wine of baccus) . If jesus didn't get around , someone very influential surely did .

well according to Jesus, or at least Jesus as written by the books of the apostles, no. He was a Jew. That was the whole point after all.

Buddhism had been around for a couple hundred years by this time, however Israel was part of the roman empire and the roman empire had very little contact with indian subcontinent.

It is possible that he had read about it. it is even possible that some of teachings resonated with him, but he claimed himself to be a Jew. Several times in fact. he was even executed for it.

There are also severe ideological differences. His description of the caring and love of god, and the value of prayer is fundamentally different from Buddhism. Also the beating of the money lenders was not a very Buddhist behavior.

What the writer seems to be talking about rather, is was Jesus an enlightened individual or what the golden dawn folk (*shudder*) call a magus. neither of these things would necessarily make him a Buddhist though.

Uh,.......... no. I think not.

There is no doubt his lost years were spent learning teachings of Buddha on his journey.

This Hub comes in response to this article I found through one of my Buddhist students who found it online. Was Jesus a Buddhist?