To: Father Terrence who wrote (345 ) 3/27/1998 10:16:00 PM From: Jane Hafker Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1615
Let's see, your monks were translating Hebrew into a vast story of the intimate details of the spiritual progress of some kid from the Mediterrean (remember, he died at about 30, and Tibet is a long, long ways on foot). And of course, you have SEEN the proof of this. Or not the proof. Copied proof. Probably copied in about l930? I think probably. What does the sum total of world knowledge have to say in this matter? The matter of learned scholars in monasteries in Tibet, at the edge of the world until recently, and also at the time of Alexander, who was so dumb he cried for another kingdom to conquer when HE COULD HAVE GONE TO THE GREAT CIVILIZATION AND MONASTERIES IN TIBET AND SACKED THEM! Alas, he didn't know, poor Alexander. But what of history, what does history tell us from those who merely write what was, versus what wasn't? And of the incomparable ancient Tibetan religion, with us since,...the flood, almost. Which picks tiny toddlers, calls them god of some sort, and people sit around and worship them while they are dressed lavish clothes and their faces made up. Oh, that's India, but that is where the historians say the Tibetans got their religion, and they certainly know more about it than I do. "During the 600s Tibet became a powerful kingdom. BUDDHISM AND HANDWRITING WERE INTRODUCED FROM INDIA, AND Lhasa FOUNDED. (Look to the Websters for the definition of "founded".) ...lots of history....then "The Dalai Lama became the civil authority and ruler of Tibet in the l600s. I believe the Pyramids and Egypt were 2,500 years before that. So that is probably why no one else except you and your prize "historian" what's his name have ever REALLY put Jesus in Tibet too often. We can only stretch the truth so far and then everyone breaks out laughing. Putting him in Egypt begging to learn of the black arts is enough to reap eternal damnation upon anyone. We don't need to also take him to Tibet. I will research Tibet further. I believe it was nonexistant in the world until about the time the World Book picks it up. But I'll look at my Time-Warner Atlas of World History and see where their state of the art think tank people have Tibet as "full of wise monks who can write what language, and also translate the words of a wandering Jewish boy they perceive immediately must want to be the son of God, but they get a confession out of him that he really is NOT.