Among the questions I randomly get asked on occasion is if it’s true that Jesus went to India as a child or young man to consult with the Brahmins, or to Nepal to consult with Buddhists. I suppose the best answer would be: “It depends which Gospel you read.” If you read the New Testament Gospels – or in fact any writing of the New Testament, early Christianity, or Christianity down to modernity – the answer is, uh, no.
So where do these ideas come from? Modern Gospel forgeries (see my previous post). Here’s one of the most (in)famous, as I talk about it in my book Forged (HarperCollins 2011).
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One of the most widely disseminated modern Gospel forgeries is called The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ.[1] From this account we learn that
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