Monday, 11 February 2019


当年坤沙寄居泰北满星叠,现今再无异域金三角

刚参加苗圃泰北助学行,参观了昆沙( Ban Hiteh ) (1934-2007 ) 张奇夫先生--满星叠纪念馆,美乐斯国军纪念馆及金三角。
遥想半世纪以前, 坤沙于异域寄居寻祖籍,泰北还饱受战乱的遗害。世事沧桑,现今泰北己经公路贯通,金三角已成经济特区。世上再无毒品为祸的金三角。人们可以追寻和平小康的生活了。
Bill
1933年2月17日,坤沙出生在缅甸掸邦莱莫山弄掌大寨,祖籍是云南大理。他的父亲张秉尧是汉族人,母亲是掸族人。坤沙有三个名字,中文名字叫“张奇夫”,缅甸名字为“关约”,“坤沙”则是泰国名字。
“张奇夫”镌刻在段希文墓葬捐建名录第一行的精壮汉子,曾经是金三角毒品江湖的扛纛人,麾下三万余人的卫队,不仅保障着马帮可以在人迹罕至的栈道肆意远行,即使是庙堂之上也不敢打主意,毒品这种见不得光的勾当,成了他的手中堂而皇之的大买卖。麾下卫队远超于官兵的装备水平,不仅有先进的制式冲锋枪,而且地空导弹这样的重装备更是毫不逊色,在优势官兵的围剿下,坤沙不仅屹立不倒,而且割据十余万平方公里地盘,成为名义上的金三角毒品之王。然而风光背后不繐.是沧桑就是肮脏,坤沙身上兼具二者的底色。
他从小继承土司之位,武力夺取金三角奠定统治地位。与鸦片将军罗星汉争夺金三角毒品江湖的头把交椅时,一役击溃罗星汉上千人马押运的马帮运输队,缴获十余吨鸦片,自此力压罗星汉成为金三角首屈一指的江湖枭雄。随着实力的不断扩大,树大招风的坤沙受到诱捕。坤沙军师张苏泉用计将其救回。
1971年,坤沙旧部利用民族情绪号召掸族革命,竖起“掸邦独立建国”大旗,将部队改组成“掸邦联合军”(简称SUA),迅速成长为缅甸一支强大的反政府武装[1]。在当地汉族描述中,掸邦从此成为张奇夫、张苏泉“二张”的独立王国,其部队被称为“张家军”。总部设在掸邦东北部泰缅边境的贺猛(Homong)。
1973年4月16日,缅甸“泼水节”期间,坤沙的参谋长、国民党军官张苏泉设计在掸邦首府东枝绑架了两名苏联医生贝柯密斯基和维诺格达道夫。
1974年9月7日,缅甸政府在保全了面子的前提下,释放了坤沙。坤沙被释放后,起初被要求居留在仰光,不准离开。后来,又迁徙到了瓦城。
1976年2月7日坤沙及张苏泉的特别行动小组驶出了瓦城。坤沙于泰国北部夜丰颂省边境设立了基地贺猛。他的军队一直为争夺掸邦的控制权而与缅甸政府对抗。坤沙采取了张苏泉的建议,将人马拉到当时泰国军警无法顾及的北部边境地区。以坤沙在与泰国有关方面达成反共防共的协议后,坤沙部的驻留得到了一定的“合法性”。
1982年,以满星叠为基地的坤沙毒品集团势力过于庞大,遭到了泰国政府镇压,坤沙军主力重新进入缅甸掸邦山地,在多依朗村寨建立了自己的新基地。
虽然出身草莽,坤沙尊重读书人,农忙时节还会亲自下田插秧,因为有张苏泉的影响,坤沙和所有面北而葬的溃军一样,重感情且讲义气,他说自己是天下最痛恨毒品的人之一,也说过愿意到任何一个没有毒品的地方去,但是背后百万普罗大众的生计何依?坤沙后来向缅甸低头,1996 年被缅甸政府一直关押到2007 年逝世,然而金三角的毒品江湖仍然不太平,自然条件恶劣,交通死角众多,毒贩们把这里当作藏污纳垢最适宜的避难所,殊不知早已没有了坤沙当年那种只将毒品卖往西方,手下人吸毒一律处死的决绝。自其死后的金三角毒品江湖,只有如过江之鲫的毒贩,不仅穷凶极恶,而且利欲熏心,再无任何毒贩,真正担得起毒枭的那个枭字。
“金三角”位于东南亚地区缅甸、老挝、泰国的交界地带,泰国政府在这三国交界点竖立一座刻有“金三角”字样的牌坊,故这一带故被称作“金三角”。
【江湖史话:此人死后的金三角毒品江湖,再无毒贩担得起“枭”字】https://mr.baidu.com/kha7d14?f=cp
【坤沙_百度百科】https://mr.baidu.com/cuswxfm?f=cp
【亚洲最大的毒枭:坤沙竟是中国人,最崇拜毛主席(毒品从不卖中国)_排行榜123网】https://mip.phb123.com/renwu/quanshi/20370.html



美斯乐“泰北义民文史馆”馆内,陈列着台湾作家柏杨2003年就这支国民党残部写下的一段感言:“一群被遗忘的人,他们战死,便与草木同朽;他们战胜,仍是天地不容。”据馆内记载,1949年12月云南解放后,云南境内剩下国民党两支部队,分别为193师与93师。这两万多人随后进入了缅甸,1951年经整顿后,成立了“云南反共救国军”,李弥任总指挥。后来,“救国军”反攻大陆,被中国人民解放军击败。在缅军的打击下,“救国军”相继于1953年和1961年撤到台湾。很多不愿意去台湾的官兵重新整编,由柳元麟任总指挥,下辖5个军。后来在中国和缅甸军队的打击下,部队崩溃。国民党将军段希文、李文焕率领这支剩有约4000人的第五军残部撤到泰北山区湄沙隆。他们在泰国多年得不到给养,至今泰国还有人对我们说,这些军人当年也是靠毒品买卖生存。后来,由于这支国民党残部帮助泰国政府“剿灭北部苗共有功”,20世纪60年代末开始,他们被逐步给予泰国居民合法身份。
美斯乐在泰国,有些人叫它为小中国,也有人把这里叫做云南村,都代表着它与中国有着非常深厚的渊源,许多中国人都愿意去过美斯乐旅游,因为在这里,大家可以用非常熟练的中国话进行交谈,并且丝毫不会有陌生感。
【泰国一个被人遗忘的农村,居住着国军后代,曾受尽折磨和歧视】https://mr.baidu.com/rjinaj1?f=cp
The Panglong Agreement 1947.
1947彬龙协议
由掸、克钦及钦族领导人同缅甸总督执行委员会的代表于1947年签署于彬龙地区。协议签署的目的是,联合缅甸本部以及掸联邦、克钦邦、钦邦等少数民族地区,从英国殖民者手中争取独立。被称为缅甸国父的昂山将军在1947年7月19日被暗杀。而《彬龙协议》的原则在1947年9月24日通过的《缅甸联邦宪法》中得到了充分体现。《彬龙协议》的重点是,各个少数民族地区在国家政治中享有充分自治,并且各个少数民族地区人民享有民主国家公民所享有的各项权利和特权。
2009年8月底,在缅甸政府军强力攻势下,缅北果敢地区果敢同盟军寡不敌众,其时,有果敢同盟军白所成部投降政府军,致使果敢地区最终陷落,彭家声带同余部不知所终。此后,缅甸各个少数民族和平武装组织因为拒绝接受军政府整编,而同政府军之间冲突加剧。为了争取生存权以及民族自治权等,各少数民族和平武装组织展开了顽强抗争。《彬龙协议》也成为缅甸众多少数民族和平武装组织在争取民族各项基本权利时所依傍的重要根据。
【1947彬龙协议_百度百科】https://mr.baidu.com/4sbezmq?f=cp
The  Divided Rule of Shan State;( 1948_1988 )
Shan State (Burmese: ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်, pronounced [ʃáɴ pjìnɛ̀]; Shan: မိူင်းတႆး [mə́ŋ.táj]) is a state of Myanmar. Shan State borders China to the north, Laos to the east, and Thailand to the south, and five administrative divisions of Burma in the west. Largest of the 14 administrative divisions by land area, Shan State covers 155,800 km², almost a quarter of the total area of Burma. The state gets its name from the Shan people, one of several ethnic groups that inhabit the area. Shan State is largely rural, with only three cities of significant size: Lashio, Kengtung, and the capital, Taunggyi.[4] Taunggyi is 150.7 km north east of the nation's capital Naypyitaw.
【Shan State - Wikipedia】https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan_State
金三角经济特区
2007年老挝中央政府与金木棉国际(香港)有限公司签订开发合同,共同规划建设“金三角东盟经济旅游区”。2010年,在老挝革新开放政策的推动下,时任老挝总理波松·布帕万签署了《关于在老挝人民民主共和国波乔省东鹏县设立金三角经济特区的活动和管理的第 090 号总理政令》,正式批准成立国家级的金三角经济特区,首期期限99年[1]并允许延期,同时根据“小政府、大社会”的机制设立金三角经济特区管理委员会[2],并授权其在老挝法律和开发合同框架下,行使对金三角经济特区行政管理权和经济开发权。
【老挝金三角经济特区_百度百科】https://mr.baidu.com/6xbvjx3?f=cp
老挝政府果断设立了经济特区,引进外资,并且任命了中国商人赵伟担任该区的最高行政长官,老挝金三角开始改变了原有的风貌。
【中国人在国外开办的“经济特区”,曾是世界上最有名的毒源地!】https://mr.baidu.com/sj4givc?f=cp

Saturday, 19 January 2019

Visit Tasmania by self driving


Tasmania of size nearly twice of Taiwan, population only 515000 with 220,000  in Hobart at 2018. 

Tasmania still allow foreign international students to apply residence , Could moving  to or studying in Tasmania be your answer to permanent residency in Australia? | EMSA Australia
https://emsaus.com/tasmania-answer-permanent-residency/

Our group 10/1/19-17/1/19 Thursday to Thursday

Day one (Thursday)
 flied to Hobart and arrive  7.30 pm . Stayed downtown  overnight 
Day two (Friday)

Breakfast 7am to 8am
pick up by main group and 
Drive to Port Arthur and have lunch there; Tour around Port Arthur peninsula and drive back to farm house, at 1025 Lemont Rd. 

Day three (Saturday)
After breakfast drive to Hobart for the famous Salamanca Market Day. Cherries in season, and plenty of other interesting items available. Lunch at Hobart then tour the central Tasmania area. Drive to Mt Wellington  1271 m ; Cook Dinner at farm

Day four (Sunday)
Eastern Tasmania, Wineglass Bay, 200 km ;  the icon of the Freycinet area. Freycinet National Park 
Freycinet, which are famous for Oyster, seafood and scenery. 
Off Coles Bay Road , Freycinet Marine Farm;  Freycinet National Park,  Wine Glass Bay;  dinner at Zeps, Campbell Town, 7210. Nice 

Day five (Monday)
Drive to Longford , Woolmers Estate, 658 Woolmers Ln, Longford TAS 7301 , World Heritage ; World Heritage status in 2010, Convicts site. Operated at February 2018. 
Visit Bridestowe Lavender Estate, $10;  Launceston Cataract Gorge 

Day six (Tuesday)
Drive to Bruny Island,  take ferry,$38 per car, lunch at Get Shucked, to Lighthouse .

Day seven (Wednesday)
Drive to Oatlands , Callington Mill
Oatlands is considered to have the largest number of colonial sandstone buildings in any town in Australia, and many of them were built by convict labour. It is the largest town in the Southern Midlands Council area and is surrounded by rich agricultural land.

Oatlands is located 84 km north of Hobart and 115 km south of Launceston on the Midland Highway. At the 2016 census, Oatlands had a population of 683. Drive to Lake Sorell, lunch at Great Lakes. 

Day eight (Thursday)
After breakfast leave farm, as some of us will need to fly out early.  Scallop pie  in Hobart is a favourite , return our vehicles at Airport . 

Mean temperature around our area 8.7-21.7 Celsius in January. Mean rainfall 43mm.

Tasmania Self-drive Itineraries & Road Trips | Discover Tasmania

https://www.discovertasmania.com.au/what-to-do/self-drive



Sunday, 13 January 2019

Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet GCMG 赫德- 第一客卿






Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet GCMG (20 February 1835 – 20 September 1911) 赫德- 第一客卿

《风中客卿》第一集 大清海关第一人 | CCTV纪录
https://youtu.be/js1cdVSZptg

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Sir Robert Hart, (20 February 1835 – 20 September 1911) was a British diplomat and official in the Qing Chinese government, serving as the second Inspector-General of China's Imperial Maritime Custom Service (IMCS) from 1863 to 1911. Beginning as a student interpreter in the consular service, he arrived in China at the age of 19 and resided there for 54 years, except for two short leaves in 1866 and 1874.[1]

Hart joined the Chinese  Customs in 1859, and 2013 marks the 150th anniversary of his formal appointment to the Inspector-Generalship. He was a Chinese civil servant, and never let the foreign nationals of his own staff forget this point, and he worked consistently to try and fashion structures and practices that would reduce the potential for tension between China and the foreign powers.  Hart’s reputation has varied over the years. In Anglophone historical writing in the 1950s-60s he was presented as fairly central to any understanding of China’s interaction with foreign power, but thereafter new scholarly trends explored different fields and approaches and he largely fell out of sight. In China, until relatively recently, he was viewed simply as an agent of foreign, principally British, imperialism.

Hart and his legacies, including his archive at Queens’ University Belfast Special Collections, its photographic records, can help furnish unique materials for understanding China’s modern history, its heritage, and social life and customs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Robert_Hart,_1st_Baronet


Robert Hart | British Inter-University China Centre
https://www.bicc.ac.uk/tag/robert-hart/

The I. G. in Peking : letters of Robert Hart, Chinese Maritime Customs, 1868-1907 / edited by John King Fairbank, Katherine Frost Bruner, Elizabeth MacLeod Matheson

Hart was born in a little house in Ulster, Ireland. He was the eldest of 12 children of Henry Hart (1806–1875), In 1853, he gained his B.A. at the age of 18. He also won medals in Literature as well as in Logic and Metaphysics, and left with the distinction of being a Senior Scholar. He decided to study for a master's degree but in spring 1854 was instead nominated by Queen's College for the Consular Service in China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Robert_Hart,_1st_Baronet

赫德,字鹭宾,英国贝尔法斯特人(实为阿马郡波特唐镇人)。1854年(咸丰四年)来到中国,担任英国驻宁波领事馆翻译官,后调往广州,又曾担任香港总督府秘书。1859年改任(满清政府)粤海关副税务司。1861年,总税务司李泰国(Horatio Nelson Lay)奉命(赴英国)采购战舰,由赫德代理职务,其间赴长江各新开口岸设置海关。1864年(同治三年)建立台湾南、北新关,并改驻京城(北京),获加封为按察使。1869年晋升为布政使,并赴沿海地区设置导航灯塔。1876年(光绪二年)协助签订中英《烟台条约》。1884年,到金陵(今南京)与法国大使商讨解决中法越南冲突。后(1885年),英国任命赫德为英国驻大清兼驻朝鲜王国大使,但赫德拒绝。过年后,清廷赏赫德花翎和双龙二等第一宝星。
1886年,赫德赴香港、澳门与英、葡

1900年八国联军攻入京师,赫德参与议和,获晋升为太子少保。1902年奉召入宫觐见王室,获赐字。1905年,赫德与德国使节商议修订《会订青岛设关征税办法》,改行无税区法规,又寻求与日本使节比照胶海关设置,共同筹备设置大连湾新海关。1907年,赫德于东三省(黑龙江、吉林、辽宁)测量土地,设置海关。过年后(1908年),赫德因病,请准清廷离华返英,清廷加封尚书头衔。
1854 年以来,赫德始终长居中国,只有在 1866 年和 1878 年两次归国省亲。不过进入 1907 年,他的日子变得相当难过:多年助手和密友金 登干病逝,正在推行新政的清政府则打算收回关税管理权。赫德本人多年来饱受背痛和关节问题困扰,与子女关系也不睦。这年冬天,这个 72 岁的老人上书朝 廷要求请长假,获得了批准。1908 4 13 日,赫德乘火车离京,人们在他的办公室里找到一张纸条,上面写着:上午 7 时,鹭宾赫德走了。他再 也没能回国销假,于 1911 9 20 日病逝在白金汉郡家中。20 天后,武昌起义爆发,清王朝轰然崩塌。江海关为纪念他们的领袖,在 1914 年为赫德打造 了那尊著名的铜像,这个低头含胸的英国人在九江路继续 1942 年,被对英宣战的日军拆毁熔化。它在中国只存在了 28 年,比现实中的赫德还要短。




來源:網絡

赫德曾司掌中华帝国海关 48 年之久,使这个新机构始终维持廉洁高效的运转,并把邮政、灯塔和海底电缆引入中国;赫德还是自强运动的要角,以《局外旁观论》等见解影响和诱导了清政府在军事、外交领域的变革,于同光中兴不无贡献。

然而对这个精通中文、喜爱东方音乐的洋和尚来说,客卿身份既是平步青云的基石,也时时带来困扰。对内,赫德以中国人民的同胞自居, 以其专业知识与职业态度服务于清政府,获得驯顺近礼的称赞;但他也深深卷入清末复杂的政局,试图为己寻租,被李鸿章目为阴鸷而专权,怙势而自尊 小人加以提防。

中國歷史上不乏客卿。元明以來,就有馬可‧波羅、龍華民、鄧玉函、利瑪竇、湯若望、南懷仁諸人。但真正為中國政府長期聘用,有職有權,對中國政治、經濟、文化起了舉足輕重影響的,則非19世紀來華、掌控中國海關幾近半個世紀的鷺賓‧赫德(Robert Hart1835—1911)莫屬,是為中國第一客卿。


https://baike.baidu.com/item/中国第一客卿:鹭宾·赫德传

他几乎大半生都生活在中国,育有三名婚生子女,还有三名私生子女。他长期挣扎于平衡工作与家庭生活当中。
那是西方列强称霸中国的年代。
而在他死后100年的今天,阿马郡(County Armagh)故乡的人几乎都把他忘掉。


赫德,字鹭宾——几乎被北爱尔兰乡亲遗忘的晚清海关重臣 - BBC News 中文http://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/uk-46192289


Tuesday, 1 January 2019

Jesus would have studied Buddhism in a Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas

Jesus would have studied Buddhism in a Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas


In Jesus' time Buddhism was already five hundred years old and had spread from India, east to southeast Asia, north to central Asia. Jesus would also been a Buddhist, and not all scholars are convinced that Jesus of Nazareth was born in Bethlehem. Only two of the four Gospels mention his birth, and they provide diverging accounts: the traditional manger and shepherds in Luke. 

During Jesus' time, Judea was a Roman dominion and most of the trade was Roman; non-Jewish political and cultural influences permeated Judea, which was an important shipping center for trade between India and the West and the military gateway to invade Egypt via land. 

In 1887, a Russian war correspondent, Nicolas Notovitch, claimed that while at the Hemis Monastery in Ladakh, he had learned of the document "Life of Saint Issa, Best of the Sons of Men" – Isa being the Arabic name of Jesus in Islam.
However , Donald Lopez, professor of Buddhist studies at the University of Michigan, describes dozens of factual errors in Notovitch’s book. Lopez believes the development of now-discredited race theories forced bigoted Christians to confront the fact that Jesus was a Semite. Placing Christ in Asia was a nifty anti-Semitic loophole, in which Lopez  said that Jesus, as a young man, wasn’t “in a synagogue,”, “but in a Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas.”

The Jesus Seminar  had voted that Jesus was an itinerant sage who shared meals with social outcasts.

Bill 


Jesus Was A Buddhist Monk (BBC Documentary)

https://youtu.be/xY0Ib3aPG6Y

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_years_of_Jesus

It is said that Jesus was also a Buddhist, especially during his so-called "lost years." 

During Jesus' time, Judea was a Roman dominion and most of the trade was Roman; non-Jewish political and cultural influences permeated Judea, which was an important shipping center for trade between India and the West and the military gateway to invade Egypt via land. Both land and sea trade routes had run through Jerusalem for centuries. Overland routes extending to Persia and western India were especially active after Alexander's invasion of western India 360 years earlier; most of the routes, whether connecting to wealthy cities in Egypt or in Greece and Rome, came through Jerusalem, where goods for Greece and Rome were shipped via the Mediterranean Sea.

In Jesus' time Buddhism was already five hundred years old and had spread from India, east to southeast Asia, north to central Asia, and west to the Middle East.  After Alexander's eastern conquests, the great India ruler Ashoka, according to Will Durant's account, "sent Buddhist missionaries to all parts of India and Ceylon, even to Syria, Egypt and Greece, where, perhaps, they helped prepare for the ethics of Christ." (1) Furthermore, Max Muller stated that missionaries also were sent more than thirty years prior to Ashoka's reign: "That remarkable missionary movement, beginning in 300 BCE, sent forth a succession of devoted men who spent their lives in spreading the faith of the Buddha over all parts of Asia." (2) Philo noted the presence of Buddhists in Alexandria, Egypt. (3) 

The Bible makes no mention of where the young Jesus lived. In Matthew (2:23) and Mark (1:23), Jesus is called a "Nazarene" and in other documents a "Nazoraean." But the town of Nazarene was not mentioned in the Bible-related texts until some four hundred years CE. Nazarene probably refers to another Jewish sect, also known as the "Nazirites," involving John the Baptist and Jesus' brother James. In Acts 24:5, Paul is referred to as "the leader of the sect of Nazarenes." (8) 

Most accounts of Jesus in India derive from a book titled The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ, written by Nicholas Notovitch, a Russian doctor who claimed to visit the monastery of Himmis near Leh, Ladakh (Kashmir) in 1888. (10) Notovitch said that, in visiting the monastery, he reviewed written verses that described the presence there of Jesus known as "Issa." Other passages elaborate on Jesus' travels in India, his teachings, his acceptance of the Shudras and other untouchables, and his conflicts with the Brahmans and the Zoroastrian priests of Persia. Jesus supposedly arrived in India at the age of fourteen and returned to Judea at the age of twenty-nine. (11) 

When appearing in 1894, Notovitch's account became immediately and widely controversial. Christian churches denounced it as a hoax. The British Church Mission in India employed a professor to find and bury the documents described by Notovitch. The Anglican Church commissioned the services of F. Max Muller, the great German scholar who taught at Oxford. Muller dismissed it, largely by challenging the two main sources, namely a book of fourteen chapters and another document titled Nath Namavali preserved by the Saddhus of Yoga Nath. Muller also cited an interview of the Himmis monastery's abbot who insisted that no documents about Jesus existed and that Notovitch never visited there. (12) 

thezensite: Was Jesus a Buddhist?
http://www.thezensite.com/non_Zen/Was_Jesus_Buddhist.html


 If Jesus did not go to India, then at least went to Judea. The real historical question is not if he studied Buddhism, but where and how much he studied Buddhism,

Was Jesus not Oriental ? 
Asians remade Jesus, at times appreciatively and at other times critically. R. S. Sugirtharajah demonstrates how Buddhist and Taoist thought, combined with Christian insights, led to the creation of the Chinese Jesus Sutras of late antiquity, and explains the importance of a biography of Jesus composed in the sixteenth-century court of the Mughal emperor Akbar. He also brings to the fore the reconstructions of Jesus during the Chinese Taiping revolution, the Korean Minjung uprising, and the Indian and Sri Lankan anti-colonial movements.

Jesus in Asia — R. S. Sugirtharajah | Harvard University Press
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674051133

During the colonial period in India, Hindu reformers relentlessly reminded the missionaries that Jesus was, as Rammohun Roy put it, an “Asiatic.”  Keshub Chunder Sen in his Calcutta Town Hall lectures used to harangue the Europeans with his stirring oratory: "I am an Asiatic, was not Jesus an Asiatic?". Swami Vivekananda reminded the Western Christians that with all their "attempts to paint him with blue eyes and brown hair, the Nazarene was still an oriental."

The author summarily and inextricably links Western missions and missionaries to the imposition of the colonising culture on indigenous people. Yet not a few missionaries, at least on the Indian subcontinent, continue to be held in high esteem for their study of indigenous language and culture, and for the integrity of their lives.
Further, some of Sugitharajah’s thinkers were themselves converts who fervently received and interpreted Jesus in their respective situations. If, as he argues, the quest for the historical Jesus “seems in a way to be a futile enterprise”, and Asian Christology must be taken as seriously as Western Christology, this entails recognising a confessional approach to spreading the gospel. But he rightly rejects any willingness to employ religion and mission as handmaids of the imperial power and sectarian interests.
Sugitharajah’s selection of subjects is open to the criticism that it is unrepresentative. Christians from India will miss a discussion of the repositories of thinking about Jesus over many centuries on the west coast of India, in particular, and any attention to Jesus as he finds voice in Dalit theology. Discussion of the latter would bring to the fore the wide experience of Jesus as the divine liberator who casts aside untouchability.

Jesus in Asia
R. S. Sugirtharajah


The Jesus Seminar was a group of about 50 critical Biblical scholars and 100 laymen founded in 1985 by Robert Funk that originated under the auspices of the Westar Institute.[1] [2]  The Jesus Seminar - the purpose to decide their collective view of the historicity of the deeds and sayings of Jesus of Nazareth

The seminar was very active through the 1980s and 1990s, and into the early 21st century.

According to the Jesus Seminar:


Early in the 21st century, another group called the "Acts Seminar" was formed by some previous members to follow similar approaches to biblical research.[2]
In March 2006, the Jesus Seminar began work on a new description of the emergence of the Jesus traditions through the first two centuries of the common era (CE). In this new phase, fellows of the Jesus Seminar on Christian Origins employ the methods and techniques pioneered by the original Jesus Seminar.[71]

Jesus Seminar - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Seminar

The Church of the Nativity is the oldest Christian church still in daily use, but not all scholars are convinced that Jesus of Nazareth was born in Bethlehem. Only two of the four Gospels mention his birth, and they provide diverging accounts: the traditional manger and shepherds in Luke; the wise men, massacre of children, and flight to Egypt in Matthew. Some suspect that the Gospel writers located Jesus’ Nativity in Bethlehem to tie the Galilean peasant to the Judaean city prophesied in the Old Testament as the birthplace of the Messiah.

What Archaeology Is Telling Us About the Real Jesus
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/12/jesus-tomb-archaeology/

Jesus the Man: New Interpretations from the Dead Sea Scrolls
Author  -  Barbara Thiering
The central thesis of the book is that "Jesus was the leader of a radical faction of Essene priests. He was not of virgin birth. He did not die on the Cross. He married Mary Magdalene, fathered a family, and later divorced. He died sometime after AD 64".[2] From the New Testament gospels and Dead Sea Scrolls, Thiering constructs a new history of early Christianity which she contends was hidden in pesher coding. Thiering finds that the biography of Jesus hidden in the New Testament shows him to have been born in Qumran, an Essene community beside the Dead Sea, in March, 7 BC.

Jesus the Man - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_the_Man

The Real Jesus—the first book to challenge the findings of the Jesus Seminar, the controversial group of two hundred scholars who claim Jesus only said 18 percent of what the Gospels attribute to him—"is at the center of the newest round in what has been called the Jesus Wars" (Peter Steinfels, New York Times). Drawing on the best biblical and historical scholarship, respected New Testament scholar Luke Timothy Johnson demonstrates that the "real Jesus" is the one experienced in the present through faith rather than the one found in speculative historical reconstructions.

Review
"In the best of the recent flow of books [on Jesus]...Johnson offers a devastating critique of those scholars who prefer their own reconstructed Jesus to the one attested in the New Testament." -- Newsweek 

"Luke Timothy Johnson calls the bluff of the Jesus Seminar and other purveyors of trendy 'historical Jesus' marketing hype. This timely book offers an engaging account of what serious historical scholarship can--and cannot--say about the Jesus of history. Johnson refocuses the debate by posing fundamental questions about the relation between history, tradition, and faith." (Richard B. Hays, Duke Divinity School, author of The Moral Vision of the New Testament)

The Author - Luke Timothy Johnson is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the New Testament and Christian Origins at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University. A Roman Catholic, Johnson was a Benedictine monk and priest before becoming a biblical scholar. He is the author of several scholarly books and has written for Commonwealth and Christian Century.


The Jesus Sutras are early Chinese language manuscripts blending Taoist, Buddhist, and Christian teachings. 
Sutra on the Origin of Origins (大秦景教宣元本經; Dàqín jǐng jiào xuānyuán běn jīng); now held in Osaka, Japan, by Kyōu Shooku library, Tonkō-Hikyū Collection, manuscript no. 431. An inscribed pillar discovered in Luoyang in 2006 supplements the incomplete version from Dunhuang. Kojima manuscript B (大秦景教宣元至本經, Dàqín jǐng jiào xuānyuán zhi běn jīng, last known to be in the Dōshisha University library, Kyoto, in 1963) was at one time thought to be the conclusion of this work; see below ref. to Kazuo Enoki, p.68.

Jesus Sutras - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Sutras