Re: "issa" quoted in zen 365 page a day calendar

I don't begrudge Jane's desire to change her name to anything she wants any 
time, but if the idea for Issa as a name came from the Islamic name for Jesus 
(Isa or Issa) or from the Issa/Jesus whose travels in India 19th century 
journalist Nicolas Notovitch purported to have found described at length in a 
document in an Indian lamasery, I would have considered that a bizarre choice, 
especially given it accompanied the timing of her decision to abandon all 
possessions. 

The decision to get rid of possessions is something I think is highly 
commendable and difficult to do. But if one were naming oneself Issa to assume the 
identify of or to use as a stage name the name of the ancient prophet who told 
people to abandon their possessions, that would probably not be my idea of good 
taste. (It is her life, not mine, however, so my reaction would be 
irrelevant.)

Fortunately, Issa has provided on her website an article in which she 
explained the name was chosen by her apparently as a feminine version of the name 
Isaiah, and she claimed she did not know of the connection to Jesus at the time 
she chose it:

http://www.issalight.com/press/press-1006-globemail.html

I did notice a week ago that the name was associated with Jesus because of a 
program on a history channel entitled "Jesus in India". Some youtube items are 
up about Jesus in Kashmir and BBC snippets. Wikipedia, as mentioned by an 
earlier person posting in this topic, lists Jesus in the top two entries for the 
several examples of Issa's to choose from to read about.

The Issa in the oriental calendar quote is likely the Japanese Haiku fellow 
though.




In a message dated 1/14/09 2:22:20 PM, [email protected] writes:


> wow! how cool is that??? that is too cool!!!
> Tracy
> 
> --- On Wed, 1/14/09, David Rieken <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> From: David Rieken <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: "issa" quoted in zen 365 page a day calendar
> To: "Jeff Johannes" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Gina Luzzi" <[email protected]>, "siblings" <[email protected]>,
> [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 12:48 PM
> 
> 
> 
> It could also be Jesus.
> 
> http://reluctant-messenger.com/issa.htm
> 
> David
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Jeff Johannes <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> This must be the one:
> 
> http://www.haikuguy.com/issa/
> 




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