Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 203
Chapter Thirteen—Yus Asaph and Jesus 203 those remote regions Jesus died at Srinagar, and was bur- ied at the tomb that now bears his name. 1 John Noel, in an article, The Heavenly High Snow Peaks of Kashmir , published in a monthly magazine, Asia , October, 1930, U. S. A. , writes: Immensely strong are the picturesque, broad-shouldered Kashmiri peasants, and yet docile and meek in tempera- ment. One thing about them strikes you with enormous force. They seem more perfectly Jewish than you have ever seen—not because they wear a flowing, cloak-like dress that conforms to your ideas of Biblical garments, but because their faces have the Jewish cast of features. This curious coincidence, or is it a coincidence,—that there is a strong tradition in Kashmir of connection with the Jews. For a good many years there have been afloat in this land rumours that Christ did not really die upon the cross but was let down and disappeared to seek the lost tribes, that he came to Kashmir, Ladakh, and little Tibet, and died and was buried in Srinagar. Kashmir legend, I have been told, contains reference to a prophet who lived here and taught as Jesus did, by parables—little stories that are repeated in Kashmir to the present day. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, Premier of India, writes in his book Glimpses of World History: 1. Docker: If Jesus did not Die upon the Cross?, p. 71. London, 1920.