Posted on 06/12/2006 9:24:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The hypothesis that Jesus Christ is buried in central Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir, has aroused a lot of interest among historiographers, researchers, scholars, archaeologists and religious groups both in India and worldwide once again. A team of German researchers, including two archaeologists, is planning to visit Srinagar later this year to investigate the subject.
Within India, the political party known as the Janata Party has set up a group of experts from among its members which would be coming to Kashmir's summer capital soon to start research work. The party's president, Dr Subramanian Swamy, who was in Srinagar last week, said that after reading a booklet by a German he has a "feeling of curiosity" about Jesus Christ and Moses having visited Kashmir and in the belief that both had died and are buried in the Valley.
Muslims in Kashmir and elsewhere revere both Jesus and Moses as "noble prophets" of "Bani Israel" (Children of Israel), as the Koran makes a number of references to them. Swamy also pointed to the belief of many Kashmiris that they were one of the "Lost Tribes" of Israel.
"It is a matter of great interest that Prophet Moses is buried in Kashmir and that Jesus too had visited the Valley, went to Ladakh to visit the Hemis monastery where he took Buddhism as his faith, returned home but left it again for Kashmir to escape persecution, and died here in Srinagar," he said. The Janata Party leader said that the team he has set up would do methodical research on the subject and come out with its findings "which everybody in the country would be interested in."
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No, I didn't say Paul's teachings, but Jesus' teachings. Things like "love your neighbor as yourself" and "what comes out of one's mouth is more important than what goes into it."
Fair enough. But there is no contradiction between Paul's and Jesus' teachings, since the main thrust of Christ's teachings was about himself.
My comment was for you, too. And just for the record, since the Vedas pre-dated Jesus, the Greeks, etc by thousands of years, any similarities were not due to cultural contact coming to India.
I had read exactly the same thing in Holger Kirsten's "Jesus Lived in India".
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I think you have it wrong here. The general consensus is that the missing years were spent in travels with his family by sea, most especially to visit the family tin mines in Cornwall (cf. Blake), nearby where James established the first synagogue in Britain in Glastonbury.
Regardless of the missing years, the story with Kashmir has to do with Jesus's life after the "resurrection.' If you assume that Jesus was a man like all of us then, after he reappeared he had to go somewhere. He went to spent time among the Parthians (which really means "separate tribes" or something like that) who were in Iran, and ended up spreading the word (of the insurrection against the Romans, ending in Kashmir where he was known as "Abba". At his deathbed, he revealed that he was truly Jesus Christ. Mary Magdalene, as we all know, went to Nice, France, with the three children, including Jesus Justus, and others.
I hope this makes it perfectly clear : )
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Just another would-be tourist attraction.
LOL!
Must be a different Jesus from the one I remember...
Here it is http://www.tombofjesus.com including a flash introduction...
Thanks for the links.
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How could Jesus have traveled to Kashmir given the transportation limitations of the 1st century AD? He would have had to go through the quite hostile Parthian Empire and then face the same jungles that turned back the armies of Alexander the Great. And how could he have died there if he was crucified in Judea?
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Two, I think.
Given that missionaries are reporting tremendous success in evangelizing to the lower tiers of India's caste system, I suspect that the Indian government has a lot at stake here. If they can discredit Jesus and Moses all at once, they can keep a nice, tidy underclass ready to do all the jobs that Indians won't do.
Ten of the tribes were exiled by the Assyrians, and stuck into various frontier areas of the Assyrian Empire (such as it was, it was very large in extent, but highly fluctuating).
Specific examples, please?
Well, we agree on that. Unless he took a shortcut walking across the ocean. :-)
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