Jesus In India — Page 120
110 JESUS IN INDIA again, had not been fulfilled at its appointed time, the followers of Buddha would have begun to doubt the truth of Gautama and it would have been written down in the books that this prophecy had not been fulfilled. Another argument in support of the fulfilment of this prophecy is that books belonging to the seventh century of the Christian era have been discovered in Tibet, in which the word Mashih is present, that is to say the name of Jesus, may peace be on him, is written as Mi-Shi-Hu. The compiler of the list which contained the word Mi-Shi-Hu is a Buddhist. Vide, 'A Record of the Buddhist Religion' by I. Tsing, translated by G. Takakusu. G. Takakusu is a Japanese who has translated I. Tsing's book, and I. Tsing is a Chinese traveller. On the margin and in the appendix to the book, Takakusu states that an ancient book contains the name Mi-Shi-Hu¹ (Masih) and this book belongs approximately to the seventh century. . . . . . . It was recently translated by the Japanese, G. Takakusu, published by Clarendon Press, Oxford. The book in any case contains the word Mashih which shows with certainty that this word was not imported by the Buddhists from outside; rather, it was taken from the prophecy of the Buddha which they sometimes wrote as Mashih and sometimes as Bagwa Metteyya. And from among the testimonies which we have found in the religious books of the Buddhists, there is one recorded by Sir Monier Williams, on page 45 of his book Buddhism. He says that the sixth disciple of the Buddha was a man named 'Yasa. ” This 1. See Appendix, extract 7 [Publisher] 2. See pages 169 and 223 of the book. (Author) 3. See Appendix, extract 2. [Publisher]