I was raised Catholic. As a child, I was a devout Catholic and was happy to go to 12 yrs of Catholic school. Then I went to a public college and soon left the Church. A few yrs later, someone gave me the Tao The Ching...eventually I wound up on a Vedanta Path. While walking thru the garden at an ashram, I came upon 3 huge statues like the ones found in Catholic churches: the sacred heart of Jesus, Blessed Mother and St. Francis. Seeing these statues made me reevaluate Jesus and who he was apart from my religious up bringing. I soon began to realize that Jesus was a Siddha...the Indian name for great spiritual teacher. Fast forward many decades and this video shows up on my youtube...and I have not sought out others like this one. I am glad it found me...much food for thought.

Years ago, "a born-again Christian" asked me if I found Jesus, and I told her I found Jesus through Buddhism. Her reaction was priceless.

What ever may be the truth, both Jesus and Buddha spread love, humility, kindness and respect. God never need any protection from human. Be truthful in your life and spread love. Don't loose yourself in search of the so called truth in history.

My parents are Hindu from Nepal. I do not associate myself with any religion but I attest to the teachings of our saints such as Jesus and Buddha. Saint is called Santa in Nepal. Santa is a sage who has liberated himself and live for true human virtues, they are wise and humble, always forgiving, forever loving and kind.. someone who sends the message of love and compassion to the world.

I think the reason between the similarities of Jesus and Buddhia’s teaching Is that both were wise men who understood suffering, and taught truth.

I was kicked out of religion class when I was seven years old. My crime was to tell the sister that jesus was a Buddhist teacher and that sins can't get erased. They can be forgiven, but not erased. The monsegnor freaked out and asked me how I knew. I just knew. I was only seven.

Im a Christian but GOSH ARE WE A NARROW MINDED BUNCH it would make no difference to me if he died or not on the cross. Jesus is so much more than that - if he had mastery over his body and went in to a deep sleep to reawaken or if he had a near death experience and came back - how does that take away from his absolutely bright soul and immense wisdom. I love jesus. Even if we found out he was part human part alien id still love him.

The notion that Jesus at the ages of 14 to 29 went to become a Buddhist monk in Tibet is inconsistent with the date when Buddhism was first found in Tibet, which was around the 3rd century CE. If the story of a Buddhist contact is true, it is far more likely that Jesus went to ancient India, where the Buddha lived approximately 500 years BCE. And the form of Buddhism would have been close to what is now the Theravada tradition - Mahayana, Vajrayana and Tibetan came much later. The Theravada tradition, and the Buddha's original teachings, have an interestingly subtle connection with reincarnation, which is a far more Tibetan practice - e.g. finding the reincarnation of a dead holy man. The Buddha expressly denied the notion of reincarnation as it was believed in ancient Indian culture. However, his teachings do refer to rebirth, and there are stories, such as the Jataka stories, which talk about the Buddha's "previous lives". It remains an enigma to this day. But owing to the subtlety and difficulties around these notions, the Buddha also taught that these things were unimportant, and that striving for the end of suffering was key. This is well described in the sutta of the poison arrow.

I am a spiritual person and believe one of the biggest cons of the world is organized for profit religions. I believe Jesus, God lives in our heart and no intermediary is needed to communicate with Him. He speaks directly to the heart. None of us know for sure the true story of Jesus as it's been translated and rewritten so many times. The story is not as important as the fact that he lives on in one's true heart. He will always guide you when you ask. Religion is personal and as unique as each human being.

He was a great man anyway. And it does not matter if he died or not. His teaching is blessing for everyone. Peace not war. Show solidarity, have a mercy, solidarity, sympathy, love your enemies. He made this world a better place to live. Hi from Slovakia

Thomas Merton, a Catholic monk, became very engaged with examining the links between Buddhist and Christian spiritual thought in the last ten years of his life. He went to the Far East, but died there and so what ideas he might have developed had he lived will never be.

my grandpa was a Buddhism monk in Cambodian. he once told us about buhda name issa = jesus. the is the greatest and the youngest of all. believed in him!!!

As a practicing buddhist teacher, I am always struck by the similarity of messages between Jesus and Buddha. In Buddhism, we are "born again" / "reborn" moment after moment after moment.

The true irony is Jesus preached against the tithes and religion for profit model. He said the way to heaven is inside you. What he said in his life, what he actually preached, and what it turned into during the Roman era over the next 400 years after his death are two totally different things. It would be amazing if people truly understood this early history and the time period while he lived.

Namo Jesus Boddhisattva ❤️🥰🙏 Love all human beings all over the world.

When I was younger, I wondered why nobody questioned the 3 Wise Men story, which to me was describing a Buddhist practice of looking for the incarnation of a Master. Why Jesus is always pictured in the oldest paintings making Mudras and why Christians think they invented the symbol for praying when it was an ancient Mudra as well. Why do Hindus claim he came to India and was known as Isha in ancient written records. So many odd questions.

Once a priest was trying to convert me to Christianity. I told him I would love to embrace Jesus’ religion. What was his religion? He said, “Christianity”. I told him Christianity started many years after him. What was His religion? I embrace his. Priest never bothered me again.

He taught people to love as Buddha did.

Both of them were great masters All love and respect for Jesus and Buddha 🙏🙏🙏 I was born Christian, but I believe and respect any peaceful religion ❤

Everything Jesus taught was psychological wisdom. He spoke in parables, paradox, and metaphors. He knew human nature to its core, as a yogic guru does, or a depth psychologist. To take all the miracles literally seems to me to get in the way of what he wanted for us. He wanted us away from material world obsessions and to difficult (but easy) transcendent love.

My great grandfather who never went out of his North Indian Village who passed away in 1997 and talked about Isa about whom he learnt from his great grandfather who spent his entire life in one village. There were no missionaries in our district until after Independence. So it can be assumed that before the name Jesus was common in India and popularized by British and Christian missions, he was already known as Isa in a lot of parts. My father was the first person in our family to meet a Christian when he moved to a bigger city in mid 80's. It's actually beautiful in a way that Jesus got to spend his life in peace after suffering in Rome. His teachings of love matter in the end. Everything else is business.

“You are born of your actions, defined by your actions, you will be heir to your actions, and your actions will be your final arbiter”. Sound familiar? First taught by Gautama and 500 years later repeated by Jesus. “You will reap what you sow” seems a repeat of that important lesson to me.

Good Documentary…Buddha and Jesus both spread Love, Peace and compassion❤️💐✨

I’m an atheist but the history and culture of religions are nevertheless still fascinating.

I am a Buddhist but I love lord Jesus unconditionaly 😢😢😢😢😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

I like to point out, although not crucial for the overall narrative of this video, the Tibetan tradition of searching and recognizing reincarnated Lamas, or previous gurus, did not start until the 11:th century AD. According to tradition it began with the second coming of Lama Dusum Kyenpa (later known as Gyalwa Karmapa). The second incarnation was given the name Karma Pakshi. The lineage of the Gyalwa Karmapa have continued up until the 17:th Karmapa that is present in the world today. His name is Karma Trinley Dorje. The lineage of the Karmapas is called Karma Kagyu in Tibet and its teachings stem right back, in an unbroken succession, to the teachings of Buddha Shakyamuni. The lineage contains many great practitioners and teachers prior to the coming of the first Gyalwa Karmapa, such as Tilopa, Naropa, Marpa, Milarepa and Gampopa. As far as I know there are no historical indications of any Buddhist tradition, prior to the Tibetan, that have a systematic lineage of reincarnated teachers or gurus? Normally, lineages are maintained through the practice of passing on teachings and empowerments from guru to disciples in succession in all Buddhist traditions. The introduction of reincarnated beings into the maintenance of a lineage is something only found in the Mahayana Buddhist traditions that hold the ideals and teachings of Bodhisattvas. It has therefor become a regular practice within all Tibetan traditions and these Lamas are regularly regarded as reincarnated Bodhisattvas, fulfilling their sacred vows of budhisattvahood. Furthermore, these Lamas are regarded as precursors of future Buddhas to this world. For example the next Buddha to appear (the Fifth Buddha) Maitreya is presently holding a lineage of a succession of reincarnated Bodhisattvas in this world. Likewise, the lineage of Gyalwa Karmapa is believed to be the unbroken lineage of the Bodhisattva lineage of the Sixth Buddha to appear in this world. According to Buddhist Mahayana belief most Bodhisattvas do not appear in this world with a name attached to them. They appear anonymously and only through their deeds will it become clear that they do possess the qualities of a true Bodhisattva. Bodhisattvas appear continuously anywhere in the universe wherever beings are in need. Traditionally, a Bodhisattva is someone that have taken a vow of not entering into complete enlightenment, or Buddhahood, until all beings have been lifted out of bewilderment and suffering. For eons upon eons they continue to serve all beings out of the pure motivation of love, compassion and wisdom. That motivation is called Bodhichitta in the Buddhist Mahayana tradition of our time. The tradition of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas is not particularly confined to our world and time but rather a universal principle beyond any dualistic concepts such as time, place, name and order. It is only to us they appear in certain orders and names, and such.

_"The Kingdom of Heaven is within you"_ ~ The Beloved Lord Jesus, the Alpha and Omega of Life. He definitely sounds Buddhist too.

Hardcore Christians will not accept this ever

Parents were cathlic for one hour a week. Went to cathlic school.the nuns taught us the humility and dignity of christ how he moved among the poor the ignorant performing miricals and inspiring people to follow the path of goodness and salvation and god help any student who failed the nuns teaching.students were both physically and emotionally abused..I was eight years old when the penny dropped,saw the casm of contradiction,it had to be a lie, for how could a child believe a righteous god be so cruel in the practice of teaching good unto mankind. Took me till i was 16 to shake off the emotional blackmail they instilled in me.. takes a lot of courage, not to believe in god and lot more courage to believe in oneself...

Ascension means to take up. To rise up . To elevate.

I like to think that Jesus & his Buddhist teacher were able to exchange their ideas on spirituality

There is also a 2,000 year old story that after Joseph of Arimathea and Mother Mary healed Jesus, they went to England, and Jesus went to India. 🎉

Regarding the quickness of his death: hadn't Jesus been tortured beforehand? The additional blood loss or damage to any internal organs might have hastened his death from the crucifixion.

Which is more important, the lessons your teachers taught you or the lives or the names of your teachers? Just pondering...

He could have died, had near death experience and then God sent him back to preach elsewhere. Regular people have near death experiences, resurrections at hospitals, such as people dead for several minutes and revived. It does not seem to conflict with resurrection.

Jusus was a man who found the way to God through meditation, just like the Buddha. Nothing more, nothing less.

I've always thought Jesus dying on the cross is just a metaphor for the death of the ego, and "rebirth" as an enlightened person, so this makes complete sense. Jesus "died for us" as an example of how to become enlightened.

God is one Sages call him by different names. He is found within us all and not an external object to be seen or experiences. The divine is beyond senses to be realized not experienced. That’s what Jesus learned in Kashmir. Religion is a marketing tool to serve the middlemen.( Institution of Churches Mosques or Temples).

The essential thing is what we make of Jesus’ and the Buddha’s teachings in our daily life. Wether we cultivate our capacity of compassion, that is love, forgiveness and respect, or chose to ignore them. I’m of christian belief, read also the teachings of the Buddha and some of the "other" gospels, not recognized by the Holy See. I take what seems true, important and beautiful to me where I find it, I don’t think that it makes me an heretic, rather a human with an open mind. Blessings to all of good will, whatever their belief or religion.

I’m reading and admiring the Bible a lot but at the same time I notice how much the words that are written resonates with the words of Buddha and also Confucius. And I am sure that jesus knew the existence of Buddism and the teachings!! even some romans were deeply moved by the Buddism at that time.

I saw A show about two Jewish scientists who did A more recent study of the Shroud of Turin. They , surprisingly, determined it was from the 1st century ad. They found pollen unique to the area of the tomb. They determined the image was imposed onto the cloth by radiation, A blast of very bright light, or both. They explained how our DNA actually emits light. It was like all the cells in that body lit up at at once in a very powerful way. They found the flagellum marks where this man was whipped by the Romans. These tiny barbell shaped objects were put on the end of a multi- pronged whip. They had barbs on them to rip out flesh with each strike. They estimated the man on the shroud had been whipped about 600 times. Anyone taking that kind of beating would die of shock in not to much time. Do I believe the shroud was on Jesus? Yes, I do. I believe he is who he said he was. There are a lot of things in common with Buddhism. Universal truth is the same everywhere. Both have great messages and teachings. They both simplified it to what we call ," The Golden Rule." Very simple. If humans listened and followed their teachings our world would be beautiful. But being humans, we can't follow simple instructions and instead twist things to control other humans. It's sad.

There's a great book called "Jesus lived in India". It's hard to get a copy, but it fills in the gaps. Jesus studied with Buddhist monks before he returned to the middle East and began his preaching and teachings.

LOVE is the greatest religion of all and is what Jesus taught. Jesus said, “Love the lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul and with all thy strength and thy neighbor as thyself. Upon these two commandments, hang all the law and the prophets.”

As a true hindu we rever all who know the ultimate truth. Religion doesn't matter.

No wonder everyone loved him SO much. Buddhism is BEAUTIFUL !!

“Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.” - Gandhi

Buried in France! Jerusalem! Kashmir! There is nothing that unites human beings so much as the trait of vying for something, anything. But the last two minutes, last two speakers, of this film actually get to the heart and truth of the matter, IMHO.

I was Muslim but left Islam for Buddhism. All my family was angry but I was calm. Which shows who is right

Holy moly! I had a copy of “Jesus lived in India.” Fascinating book and why not? That Jesus’ teachings favor a Buddhist perspective cannot be denied. Myself, born into an Old World Polish Catholic family as a second generation American, protected by my pale skin and blue eyes, living more than seven decades in this guise, only Buddhism, Nichiren Buddhism, embody the fabulous reasoning contained in that book.

The history of Christianity and how its handled Jesus' message, speaks for itself.

Jesus possibly has history in Japan also. According to that story, Jesus younger brother took his place on the cross. Jesus lived to 106 years old in Japan, had 3 children, and has a headstone.

Jesus was in Egypt learning about pagan worship then he went to Tibet and India to learn about reincarnation.

Fascinating! I love this version of events! Jesus somehow escaping the Romans and living out his days in India somehow fills me with peace. Thank you!

the core teachings of Jesus, lifestyle, discipleship, austerity, even christian hand gesture were no doubt in Buddhism for 500 years prior. Moreover, he lived the life of a Bodhisattva.

I am a devout Hindu but the bible gives me peace.

I was born Catholic and went through the Catholic School system. .. But I can't believe what they say..my spiritual journey continues.. this documentary is great. a lot of sense to me.

Gnosis in Greek means knowledge, or to know. This does not refer to factual knowledge, but to an intuitive or spiritual understanding that comes from experience. The early Gnostics were mystics, people who knew that you could experience God for yourself instead of going into a church and being told what to believe. In Hebrew, to know means to experience-so, according to the Hebrews, knowing God means to experience Him. This is what most all early Hebrews and Christians were striving to do. Unfortunately, the Church got in the way of personal experience, by creating “organized religion.” There’s a saying which states, “Religion is for the masses, and mysticism is for the individual.” If you want to be a sheep and follow along with the masses to get a generic, candy-coated version of your spirituality, then follow the teachings of the Christian fathers. If you want to explore your own individual spirituality, you must go deeply inside yourself, between your own temples, instead of through church doors. Jordan Maxwell, That Old-Time Religion

I studied a number of relevant texts and writings and had an interesting experience many years ago, in uni. My sense is that Jesus was a man who experienced ultimate epiphany/enlightenment and tried to teach others how to do the same. He was, however, interpreted literally over the years and of course organized religion made something else of his existence.

Incase anyone was still confused, Buddha was born 500 years before Christ, THAT IS THE FACT !

Jesus studied Buddhism from age 14 to 30. Then took what he learned back to his homeland.

One thing people never ask is how Christian rosaries look a lot like Buddhist prayer beads. For me it's visual proof of cultural contact, probably via the old China Silk Road, which is also how Chinese silk became popular among fashionable Roman noblewomen.

I've always thought he was Buddhist... I think of Jesus and Buddha as the same energy from different times.

A buddhist monk would not claim he were a deity.

I have always thought this was possible. That Jesus in his travels had gone east and learned about Buddhism and incorporated the new ideas into his future teachings. Seems quite likely.

There's a massive gap in the bible between Jesus' childhood and his thirties. Many people now believe he traveled to the east and studied Jainism during this gap (a predecessor to Buddhism), a religion that valued extreme compassion and non-violence, to the point of self sacrifice. If you read the old testament you can see that non-violence is not something preached in the early Abrahamic religions. It's completely foreign to it. The rule is "an eye for an eye". Jesus became enlightened in the far east, and took his radical teachings back to the middle east and tried to explain them within Jewish context to make the teachings more accessible to his contemporaries. However the teachings were still deemed too radical. Jesus challenged the established order and he was killed for his trouble. This explains why the god described in the old testament is so different to the one of the new testament. The god of the old testament is full of wrath, vengeance, jealously and anger like Zeus or one other the storm gods of antiquity. The God/force that Jesus describes is one of infinite love forgiveness and compassion. Jesus is not describing the same entity. Early christians noticed this as well, the Gnostics for example clearly saw these inconsistencies. So did Marcion of Sinope. Jesus like Buddha was a human being that was able to connect to source and become enlightened.

I'm a Christian but have no trouble believing that Jesus was a Buddhist monk. If you read Eckhart Tolle, he suggested it. To me, Jesus is a divine messenger.

This is so easily refuted. For one thing, if he had survived Crucifixion, nobody would have followed him. The Romans knew what death looked like,.Do your homework.

Fact- the story of Lord Buddha was so popular he even became a Christian saint for 900 years as Barlaam and Josaphat! This story was also found in Judaism, Ethiopia and Arabic! Lord Buddha’s Law was the first and best Law - Christianity and Islam were just awful! “Believe me, believe me” was all they had!

When I read the title I hear “Jesus was a Buddhist Monk” to the tune of the Temptations “Papa was a rolling stone. “😉

It disturbs me that any man could do this to another for any reason. I also find it disturbing that the death and resurrection is venerated above the life and the knowledge he was trying to bring. History has brought us many inspired souls and we turn their work into relics and temples but we learn nothing. We're still animals. Hell is people

The Gift the Magi, the Wise Men of the East brought was Tibetan Cranial, thousands of year old safeguarded practice to cultivate heightened intelligence, virtue and soulfulness, this act of Tibetan Cranial deserves more credit, it was not just brining gifts of gold and fragrances. It was the act of touching the head of baby Jesus using prayer mantras and that gift had a great impact on baby Jesus. He was a sage born of God. He was of divine substance. Living his legacy is having compassion and respect for each other. Jesus loves you.

Many people in recovery from addictions are resurrected on this planet through surrender. Just as Jesus surrendered on the cross and was resurrected, I too am reborn each day through surrender.

The first "resurrection" story comes from 4,000 yr old Sumerian tablets of Inanna, the Queen of Heaven and Earth, who descended to the underworld and was hung on a hook for 3 days and nights rotting only to be resurrected on the third day. MANY other cultures afterwards have similar resurrection myths. I believe, if Jesus even existed, he was drugged but the vinegar - a stimulant, vinegar kept him alive to survive the ordeal. I also believe he was in India, returned to Palestine, then returned to India where he lived a long life and died old. It's a wonderful feeling to be free of the dogma I was forced to believe.

Jesus studied Buddhism, and other esoteric teachings in India, to Master the Self, to show us the way............... No one really dies including Jesus, only our form changes, we drop the body, yet consciousness is eternal...............

All I know is every time I ask for his help, I got it.

My burden is easy (I do not carry the past with me) and my yoke is light ( my mind does not yank me from left to right) Jesus was the first guru to teach “be here now”

Pythagorus and first century philosopher Apollonius both traveled to India and studied Buddhism for years before returning to the west to teach the new philosophy.

Yeah I’m pretty sure Jesus was enlightened, in Buddhism they state that there’s a state most enlightened people can enter that you disappear for up to 7 days and it appears like your dead. Then being spiked of the ribs might look like he really is dead and then cause enlightened people have super natural powers he might of been able to repair his body when he return from the state. Idk a theory I guess ❤

I had read an article in the magazines of 1970s that Jesus had survived after being wounded on the cross . It was presumed that Jesus was trained in his younger days in the eastern countries which helped him sustain the pain inflicted on him. As per History, Jesus stayed in Kashmir, was known as Messiah and died natural death in his 80s.

For all those who are connected to religion , you have not understood religion... The one who really understand religion is never religious.

If Jesus entered the 4th Jhana on the cross, his breath could have stopped or appeared to have stopped while his body remained alive. Ajahn Chah, the famous Buddhist teacher, supposedly stopped breathing shortly after a stroke while on his hospital bed, but his students insisted he not be taken to the morgue and that he was just in 4th jhana. At their request the nurse measured his blood oxygenation to verify this, and it remained consistent over a few hours. Later he resumed breathing. There are countless other stories of individuals thought dead but only in deep samadhi.

Well...the truth is, Christ and Buddha mean one and the same thing: a being that has achieved a high level of spiritual development. An enlightened one.

Be like Lord Buddha and Lord Jesus and you’ll live a life of replete. 🙏

Great, important film making people think more deeply and broadly than scholastic and formalistic churchianity teaches...

Before being crucified he had been scourged. It was a very harsh torture that Pilate had proposed to avoid the death of Jesus. The flail used usually came to tear the skin to the bone and the blows were violent. Later he carried the cross and fell from exhaustion. Finally, realizing that he was dead, they pierced his chest with a spear.

I'm guessing he died so quickly because of the brutal scourging he went through prior to the crucifixion and the lance to his side when he was on the cross. Both they failed to mention

Misleading title. Despite the video description, there is no mention of Buddhism for the first 40 minutes. There's three or four minutes about Jesus and the Buddha, and then the documentary goes on to other topics.

Let me guess. Buddhism is kind and quite perfect. People of the Middle East had never seen anything like that before during that time, so of course, they would think someone performing miracles and having wisdom to be the Messiah. They tried to take it from Buddhism and add it to Judaism but failed miserably. So they came up with a new way to erase Buddhism to make it relate to the Old Testament, and with it, Christianity was born. Okay, no wonder they waited until Jesus died to get rid of his Buddhists scripts, so that they can write new ones. Christianity is plagiarism off of Buddhism. My best guess. Don't have to take my words.

Jesus traveled all over the world. This was a common thing for “wise men” in many cultures. The Persian Magi, the Hindu Brahmans, the Druids, the Greek Philosophers etc. all traveled extensively picking up wisdom wherever they could. That’s why you see many of the same gods in cultures all over the world just with different names and very minor differences. The pagan world was much, much more connected than we are taught in school. You can see this especially true in the art and architecture.

Most important point is. We will be better humans if we follow the teachings of Jesus.

I had this thought, as an agnostic after reading the gospels, that Jesus went East in the timeline gap found in the bible. His teachings felt very eastern to me, and the three wisemen bringing these herbs seemed like perhaps his mother had connections to the east (perhaps she was impregnated by an eastern holy man, hence the “virgin birth”). I also thought that his training in the eastern yogic practices would allow him to survive the crucifixion. These were all just imaginings, I never knew there was so much evidence to support some of these ideas.

Not the first time I heard about Jesus on the east, but the first time I heard the possibility of it after the cruseifixtion. I also heard of Jesus with the Hindu masters or priests as well during the years from 14 to 29 of Jesus life.

I am buddhist , i believe Jesus exist and love

They said during "missing years" that he studied buddhism. I mean Christianity is based on spiritual principles such as empathy, compassion and just lesson suffering.

I take anything coming out of the BBC with a grain of salt.

It's amazing to see how the ancient teachings of India have influenced many parts of the world. India is such an amazing place It's like the spiritual hub of the 🌎

When talking about how long it took for Jesus to die, the BBC conveniently forgets to mention the widely known fact that a Roman soldier stabbed Him in the side. So it is very likely that He died within the timeframe suggested. The fact that the BBC omits the spearing makes them lose credibility in this documentary.

It's not about Jesus or Buddha, it's about what motivates to be good despite their horrible life and death.

Jesus might have 'died' on the cross, but then rose from the dead. Disappearing to India/Kashmir sounds very plausible. I believe it! 🙏🧡 There were many Jesus's in Jesus's time, as well as Mary's. Those were very popular names. Two Lazarus's were raised from the dead, in the bible.

They didn't break HIS Bones BUT THEIR PIERCE HIS HEART!!!!!!!!