Category:Jesus in India (subject)

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Jesus in India

Overview

The Russian war correspondent and traveler Nicolas Notovitch is at the origin of the legend that Jesus visited India. According to a manuscript he allegedly saw while visiting the Tibetan monastery of Himis in 1887 (Life of Saint Issa, the Best of the Sons of Men), Jesus spent six years among the Brahmins, then other six years among the Buddhists, before preaching to the pagans, the Zoroastrians, and the Jews, prior to his ministry in Palestine. It was Pontius Pilate, who put him to death, in spite of the opposition of the Jewish Sanhedrin. Notovitch’s work was a hit, spurring large controversy, and influenced the work of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, who claimed that after surviving the crucifixion Jesus went to India, preached there and died an old man. Ahmad identified Jesus with the sage Yuz Asaf claiming that his tomb in Srinagar, Kashmir (known today as the Roza Bal) was the actual burial of Jesus.

In Depth

• Jesus in India (sources) -- survey of ancient sources

• Jesus in India (arts) -- survey of fictional works

• Jesus in India (research) -- survey of scholarly works

External links

• [ Wikipedia]