Author: Holger Kersten
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 264
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0143028294
Description
This compelling book presents irrefutable evidence that Jesus did indeed live in India, dying there in old age. The result of many years of investigative research, this study takes the reader to all the historical sites connected with Jesus in Israel, the Middle East, Afghanistan and India.
Why has Christianity chosen to ignore its connections with the religions of the East, and to dismiss repeatedly the numerous claims that Jesus spent a large part of his life in India? This compelling book presents irrefutable evidence that Jesus did indeed live in India, dying there in old age. The result of many years of investigative research, this study takes the reader to all the historical sites connected with Jesus in Israel, the Middle East, Afghanistan and India. As well as revealing age-old links between the Israelites and the East, the evidence found by theologian Holger Kersten points to the following startling conclusions:
- In his youth Jesus followed the ancient Silk Route to India. While there, he studied Buddhism, adopting its tenets and becoming a spiritual master.
- Jesus survived the crucifixion.
- After the 'resurrection' Jesus returned to India to die in old age.
- Jesus was buried in Srinagar, the capital OF Jammu and Kashmir, where he continues to be revered as a saintly man.
- The tomb of Jesus still exists in Kashmir.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
ONE
THE UNKNOWN LIFE OF JESUS
Nicolai Notovitch's Discovery
Who was Notovitch?
Criticism and the Critics
Notovitch's Journey to Ladakh
A Mysterious Order
TWO
WHO WAS JESUS ?
The Secular Sources
The Gospels
The Witness Paul
Conclusions
My Travels in the Himalayan Mountains
THREE
MOSES AND THE CHILDREN OF GOD
The Origins of the Hebrews
Who was Moses?
The Tomb of Moses in Kashmir
From Conquest to Exile
The Flood in Kashmir
Kashmir the Promised Land
The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel
FOUR
THE CHILDHOOD OF JESUS
The Wise Men's Star
Who Were the Three Wise Men?
Just How Do You Locate A Reincarnation?
The Flight to Egypt
FIVE
EASTERN WISDOM IN THE WEST
The Expansion of Buddhism
Therapeuts, Essenes and Nazarenes
Jesus the Nazarene
The Essenes : Christianity Before Jesus
The Teachings of the Essenes at Qumran
Buddha and Jesus : A Comparison
Buddhist Thought in the Teachings of Jesus
Was Jesus an Orthodox jew?
Successors to the Essenes and Nazarenes
THE SECRET OF JESUS
'What Manner of Man is This?'
Reincarnation in the New Testament
Christianity and the Gnostics
The Anathema of Justinian
Miracles - of Jesus, and in India
Krishna and Christ
THE SHROUD - A LEGACY OF JESUS
Accusation and Trial
The Turin Shroud
The Portrait of Edessa
The Mysterious Templars
Scientific Analysis of the Shroud
Was Jesus Emtombed Alive?
The Radiocarbon Dating of 1988
EIGHT
'DEATH' AND 'RESURRECTION'
Two Burials in John's Gospel
In the Lord's Tomb
The Mysterious' Aromatic Substances'
Crucifixion : The Medical Facts
The Wound in the Side and the Potent Drink
Traces on the Cloth
The Open Rock-Tomb
'Resurrected' or 'Arisen'?
AFTER THE CRUCIFIXION
Paul Meets Jesus at Damascus
The Journey to Paradise
The 'True' Jesus in Islam
Jesus in Kashmir
The Tomb of Jesus in Srinagar
Jesus or Paul ?
Appendix
Chronological Table
'The Nazarenes'
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Persons
Index of Places