The Tomb of Jesus — Page 42
42. Kashmir, India in his article entitled, The. Heavenly High Snow Peaks of Kashmir: "Immensely strong are those picturesque, broad-shouldered Kashmiri peasants, and yet docile and meek in temperament. One thing about them strikes you with enormous force. They seem more perfectly Jewish than the purest Jews you have ever seen not because they wear a flowing, cloaklike dress that conforms to your ideas of. Biblical garments, but because their faces have the Jewish cast of features. The curious coincidence or is it a coincidence?—is 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 rumors that Christ did not really die upon the cross, but was let down and disappeared to seek lost tribes, and that he came to Kashmir, Ladak and Little Tibet and died and was buried at Srinagar. Kashmir legend, I have been told, contains references to a prophet who lived here and taught, as Jesus did, by "parables" little stories that are repeated in. Kashmir to the present day. Of recent years certain explorers have also come upon traces of this story of the sojourn of Jesus in these regions. . In one version of the story he is said to have come to confer and argue with the Buddhist monks on