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(xiii) A twentieth century traveller Nicholus Roerich has endorsed the thesis that Asian countries and peoples possess a strong tradition describing the travels of Jesus among them. (Heart of Asia, pp. 22-23). . Similarly we have Lady Merrick's description of the evidences at Himis (Ladakh). She writes:. In Leh is the legend of Christ who is called Isa, and the monastery at Himmis holds precise documents fifteen hundred years old which tell of the days that he (Jesus) passed in Leh where he was joyously received and where he preached. (Merrick. In the World's Attic, p. 215). . Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru in his well known book Glimpses of World history has recorded: --All over Central Asia, in Kashmir and Ladhkh and. Tibet, and even farther north there is still a strong belief that. Jesus or Isa travelled about there. There is nothing inherently impossible in his doing so. (p. 86). . The Famous American authoress PEARL S. BUCK in her biography writes:. My father always a scholar, had studied Bhuddhism for many years, among other religions of Asia, and he had written an interesting monograph on the similarities between. Christianity and Bhuddism. *. Thus I knew rather clearly the general ideas my father had about Bhuddhism, one of these being that likeness between that religion and Christianity was not accidental but historical since it is quite possible that Jesus may have visited the Himalayan Kingdom in Nepal when he was a young man, and during the unrecorded twelve years of his life. Such tradition is widespread in Northern India and is even mentioned in Vishnu Purana, the ancient Hindu Scripture. . These quotations envisage that Jesus visited Himalayas in his early years before the crucifixion. It seems to me that this proposition contradicts the available legitimate evidence. There is no doubt that Jesus travelled to the Himalayas. The question is whether he was in the Himalayas before or after the crucifixion. The most credible and authentic evidence of Jesus' presence in the Himalayas is provided by the ancient Hindu scrip* (Ref: My several Worlds, A Personal Record, by Pearl S. Buck, N. Y. , 1954, pp. 66-67). 145