I never understood the resistance to this concept, because it doesn't invalidate anything in the Bible, and accounts for the "missing years".

The theory goes that as Jesus's homeland is on the Silk Road, the major trade route between India and China, of course he would have encountered the gurus traveling around between such places, so it's feasible he might have been curious and gone off to their source to find out if that's what he was going to teach.

Now, there are two sources of Jesus in India mythology:

- a questionable explorer's account of the texts in some temple, Nicola Notovich.
- The Indian religious institutions, which claim Jesus was a bit of a trouble maker, not respecting the Caste system.

Side note, somewhere in Pakistan there is a tomb that the locals swear is Mary mother of Jesus's tomb, from having passed away on some second trip to india.

Now there's no space in the bible for a second trip to india prior to the Cross event, so, that's not very useful.

Anyway anyone with an open mind could watch this doc, and decide for themselves how they feel about this whole thing: