[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927) › v2.c19.s7.44 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s7.44 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s7.44 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s7.44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s7.44) ¹ See above, p. 251; \*Bergh van Eysinga\*, p. 75 ff.; \*Garbe\*, Contributions, p. 19 ff.; Indien und das Christentum, p. 70 ff.; Charpentier in ZDMG 69, 442; E. \*Hennecke\*, Neutestamentliche Apokryphen, 2. Aufl., Tübingen 1924, p. 95 f. Even \*Götz\* in "Der Katholik," 1912 (IV, 9), 271, says: "An influence on the part of Indian and presumably also Buddhist traditions on the apocryphal writings of semi-Christian elements of the West is, then, an historical fact." J. Kennedy in \*JRAS\* 1917, 508 ff., explains the undeniable resemblances between the apocryphal stories of the childhood of Jesus and the Buddhist legends, by the hypothesis of Christian-Gnostic influences on Buddhism. Among those who make it their principle to deny any connection whatsoever, even in this case, we may mention \*Clemen\* in Zeitschf. f. neutestament. Wiss. 1916, 131 ff. and \*Günter\*, l.c., 74 ff., 78 f., 91 f.; see, however, \*Haas\*, Buddha etc., pp. 12 f., 22 f. As early as in 1762 the Augustine hermit Georgius pointed out that a similar story to that told of the five-year old Jesus and Zakchaios in the Gospel of St. Thomas, was told in Tibet about Buddha, see L. \*Conrady\*, Das Thomasevangelium (Thelog. Studien und Kritiken, Gotha 1903), p. 403 ff. - [Previous: v2.c19.s7.43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s7.43) - [Next: v2.c19.s7.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s7.45) - [Up: v2.c19.s7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s7.44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s7.44) · Pramāṇa