In Reply to: Not much wierder than the Mormons posted by Thinker on September 11, 2003 at 18:10:12:
To my knowledge, native born Hindus and Buddhists don't make a claim about Jesus being in India during the "lost years" between the infancy narratives in Matt & Luke and Jesus' appearance in public life in his early 30s.
The claim about Jesus having lived in India comes from a spiritualist revelation--I can't think of the name of the book or the author--but I remember reading it in the late 70s after I left TF. Anyway, this psychic revelator (of the Edgar Cayce type) claims to have gone into the astral plane and read the "akashic records" where the lost "history" of Jesus' life in India is recorded.