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went to Pilate to request the body, taking it back to his own tomb. There was a secret second
entrance, and it was through here that his friends were able to bring the herbs and salves
necessary to provide medical treatment. In three days he was strong enough to walk. After a few
appearances to his disciples, he went to Syria, then to India, and the area now known as West
Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Himalayas, where he continued to teach. He married and had
children, and it was believed that he died at the age of, between 110-115 years old, in Anzimar in
Khanyar Srinagar, which is located in Kashmir, India. These scrolls were in the possession of his
first born son, who returned to Jerusalem, and hid them in the burial cave of Joseph of Arimathea
where Jesus had been taken.
The ‘sacred tomb in Kashmir’ is the burial site of a man known as Yazu Asaph (also written
as Yuz Asaf), who was known as a prophet. He came to this valley about 2000 years ago from
Egypt, teaching the same things as Jesus. Located in a small, rectangular brick and wood
structure, he is buried in a wooden sepulcher which contains an inner wooden sarcophagus that is
covered with a sacred shroud, and a rectangular stone slab.
The structure seems to be built over an ancient stone structure which actually contains the
remains of Asaph. A tiny opening allows you to see into the crypt below the floor, and into the
burial chamber.
Inside the shrine is a smaller tombstone, which is that of an Islamic saint Syed Nasir-ud Din,
who was buried there in the 15th century. Both tombstones are aligned north-to-south, following
Islamic custom, but the sarcophagus in the crypt below containing Asaph’s remains are aligned
east-to-west, which is a Jewish custom.
Chiseled on a stone slab are the impressions of his two feet which bear the traces of
crucifixion wounds, conceivably of the man who is buried there. The nature of the wounds
indicate that the man was crucified with the left foot over the right, with one nail going through
both feet– which matches the pattern of the figure on the Shroud of Turin, which is purported to
be the burial cloth of Jesus.
It is also believed that Mary, the mother of Jesus, accompanied Jesus and Mary Magdalene to
India. She died when she was 70 years old, trying to escape when the Kushans attacked the
region of Taxila. The place she was buried in Pakistan (45 miles east of Taxila) was called
‘Mari’ until 1875, when the spelling was changed to ‘Murree.’ The tomb is called ‘Mai-Mari-de-
Asthan’ or ‘resting place of mother Mary.’ No other tombs in the world are purported to be that
of Mary. Mary Magdalene is reported to have died at Kashgar, in central Asia, and it was
actually Martha, that took her son, along with some other followers of Jesus, to France, where
she lived till her death.
Then came the story of St. Hazrat Issa. Around 1887, Nicolas Notovitch, a Russian
journalist, while traveling in Ladakh in Tibet, had fallen from his horse and broke his right leg,
below the knee, and was taken to the monastery at Hemis (Himis), 25 miles from Leh, the capital
of Ladakh (400 miles north of Delhi), located in a hidden valley of the Himalayas, some 11,000
feet above sea level. There, the chief lama read him the story of Issa, the man he knew as Jesus,
which said that during the 17 years in which he is not mentioned in the scriptures, Jesus was in
India.
He was told that they had many scrolls describing the “life and acts of the Buddha Issa, who
preached the holy doctrine in India and among the children of Israel.” He visited the monastery
at Mulbekh, and was told that at the archives at Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, there were several
thousand ancient scrolls detailing the life of Issa, and that some of the principal monasteries also
had copies.