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Does it matter whether Buddha or anyone else said the same thing? In fact,[b] there is a school of belief that Jesus spent some time in North India [/b]during the "missing years" and was influenced by Buddhist philosophy. Whether true or not, it does not take away from the essential message he was seeking to convey.[/quote]

Not really - just some people trying to make excuses for why BUddha and Jesus are so much alike. [b] I doubt the Jews of Jesus' time even knew there was an India. [/b]  Plus if that did happen, then Jesus borrowed his morality from Buddha so Jesus wasn't a great teacher after all -- and it would be pretty weird for God to send his son to get educated by the descendants of another great teacher in a distant land.  Very convoluted and certainly nothing in the bible about that.

What lengths people will go to believe things that make them feel good.[/quote]

Perhaps you need to educate yourself on the Jewish presence in India and when it occurred.

I always find it interesting how Christians in the west find it impossible to relate to Jewish presence in other countries - outside of their usual orbit of understanding - and especially how Christianity may have spread well before the advent of missionaries to countries like India. It is this bias that has most images of Jesus as a white, blonde, blue-eyed man. It is an easier image in the West with its historical prejudices to absorb than having Jesus look like the the more typical Middle Easterner with darker skin.

Anyway, google is your friend:

[url]https://www.google.com/#q=when+did+jews+arrive+in+india[/url]

Here is one link - among many on this subject:

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_India[/url]

And while you are at it, you may be interested to know that tradition in a part of India believes that the disciple Thomas came to South India after the crucifixion of Christ and converted the locals. Again there are many references to this on the net. Here is one:

[url]http://www.srite.de/index?id=2&cikk=84[/url]

The role of Thomas has not been proven and is more a belief based on tradition. There is also the belief based mainly on tradition that Thomas of Cana arrived in India between the 4th and 8th century.

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_of_Cana[/url]
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did you even read any of these articles that you referred readers to?  Here's an excerpt from one of them:http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.553350

“After 2,000 years in exile we would have lost our community,” Lhundgim said. “All of our lives were about how to move to Israel and keep the commandments.”
It’s not hard to understand why Lhundgim sees his life story as one of biblical prophecy fulfilled. Until age 24, he lived in a remote corner of northeast India in a community that believes itself to be descended from the ancient Israelite tribe of Menashe. Ritual similarities to Judaism — such as an animal sacrifice around Passover time — strengthened those beliefs.

Today, Lhundgim is among some 2,000 Bnei Menashe that live in Israel; another 5,000 are in the pipeline waiting to immigrate. This week, the Israeli government gave approval for 899 more Bnei Menashe to come.

The community has been permitted to move en masse despite practicing rituals in India with only glancing similarity to Judaism and claims of ancient Jewish ancestry that some politicians and experts find dubious.

“This is a bluff,” said Avraham Poraz, a former Israeli interior minister who temporarily halted Bnei Menashe immigration a decade ago. “They don’t have any connection to Judaism.”

The Bnei Menashe are hardly the first group to make claims of ancient Jewish ancestry in a bid to gain Israeli citizenship. The Falash Mura, Ethiopians who claimed to be descendants of Jews who converted to Christianity more than a century ago, were brought to Israel starting in the early 2000s.

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remember, google is your friend - but posting links just tells you that information exists -- it doesn't say anything about the content or the veracity of the information.  You have to click on the links and read them for that.

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