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saint, is buried in a magnificent tomb formerly much visited by the emperors of India and other notables. There must be about a thousand of these Christians. Their chief is the Abba Yahiyya (Father John) who can recite the succession of teachers through nearly sixty generations to - Isa, son of Mary, of Nazara, the Kashmiri. According to these people, Jesus escaped from the cross, was hidden by friends, was helped to flee to India, where he had been before during his youth, and settled in Kashmir, where he is revered as an ancient teacher, Yuz Asaf. It is from this period of the supposed life of Jesus that these people claim to have got their message. (AMONG THE DERVISHES, by O. M. Burke, London 1973, p. 12) (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 191