The Tomb of Jesus in India
Evidence suggests that Jesus Christ survived his crucifixion and travelled to Kashmir, India.
It presents evidence that he lived the rest of his life in Kashmir, and his tomb is located in the Kan Yar section of Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir, India.
There have been many books on the subject now and the number of researchers in this field is growing continually. Since the turn of the millenium docuemantaries on the subject have even appeared detailing the tomb and its story.
The most recent film being Paul Davids’ ‘Jesus in India’ a 2008 film examining the theory and featuring an interview with the current editor of the Tomb of Jesus website, Arif Khan. Recent books on the subject are:
Christ of Kashmiris – Anand Krishna [2008]
Humanity’s Messiah – Mantoshe Devji [2009]
When Jesus Lived In India – Alan Jacobs [2009]
The Rozabal – Suzanne Olsson and Dr Fida Hassnain [2008]
The theory has also had a recent fictional book centering around the Tomb in Kashmir:
The Rozabal Line – Ashwin Sanghi / Shawn Haigins [2007]
This builds on a body of research and work done over the last 100-odd years. The pace at which new material is being produced on this subject since the year 2000 has been hugely interesting and exciting.
Not a ‘New Age’ Theory
It is important to realize, at the outset, that this subject is not the invention of the “New Age” movement. This site is devoted to presenting the hypothesis that Jesus Christ physically survived the crucifixion as an “ordinary” human being, then travelled eastwards to join Jewish tribes that had been scattered to the northern tier of Afghanistan and also Kashmir, Northern India.
The theory put forward on this website continues that after surviving the crucifixion, Jesus Christ arrived in Kashmir, where he took up residence for the remainder of his life. There he ministered to Israelite tribes of the area, continuing to preach. The Negaristan-i-Kashmir book allegedly says that he eventually married a woman named Maryan, who bore him children. He died at the ripe old age of 120 years. His tomb is located in the Mohala Kan Yar district of the capital city of Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, Northern India, and is called the Roza Bal (“The Site of the Honored Tomb”).
Throughout his travels, it is claimed, he assumed the name, Yuz Asaf (Yus Asaph), a name which, some believe, meant, “Jesus the Gatherer,” and he is buried in the Roza Bal under that name.
This site, and the information it contains, is not the property of any particular belief or ism or organization, nor is the idea of a post-crucifixion life of Jesus the invention of any one individual.
From St. Irenaeus (125 A.D. to 202 A.D.) all the way to scholar Dr. Fida Hassnain, there have been many people who have contributed information concerning the fact that Jesus was seen in “Asia” or India long after the crucifixion.
The following images are provided to the Tomb of Jesus Website courtesy Ken Lee of Eleven Shadows Ken visited the tomb in 1997 and 2005 when he took these images.
A Description of the Tomb of Yuz Asaf, believed to be the name Jesus took in Kashmir, by Dr Fida Hassnain
The present building built from bricks and mortar is raised on the ancient stone sepulchre. the building is rectangular, with an attached entrance chamber. Towards the East of the structure lies the common grave-yard.
“The plinth of the present building is in reality a rectangular structure enclosed by walls made of chiselled stone blocks of big size. Very recently, the ancient stone wallings have been plastered with cement, but the upper portion of the original door, for access to the crypt, is still visible. Its decorated stones have been plastered with cement. The cella is an ancient structure decorated internally but access to is blocked now by the road towards its West, which have arisen [sic] in the past. There is also a small niche towards the North of this access door. This cella is the original sepulchre containing the remains of Yuz Asaf.
The structure above it contains the following:
1. Outer wooden sarcophagus
2. Inner wooden sarcophagus
3. Two artificial grave stones.
4. One stone slab with carved foot prints.
5. One rectangular stone slab, or a grave stone
6. One wooden cross
7. One wooden insence stance…
“This tomb was bult in a Jewish style of a sepulchre, with a room underground, having a side door. The shrine is quite distinct from the Muslim shrines, which have the Buddhist style of conic domes…”
This can be found on pages 223 to 224 of The Fifth Gospel by Dr Fida Hassnain and Dahan Levi.
(Below Images are taken from “The Rozabal – Beyond the Da Vinci Code” by Hassnain and Olsson and are re-produced here with the authors permission. The tomb has undergone many changes in recent years and these old photographs provide us a much needed record of various items that were present at the tomb originally.)
- Wooden insense stand (1975)
- Wooden Cross or Ornamental Sword (1975)
- Entrance to the Tomb
- Wooden Sarcophagus
- Grave inside the sarcophagus
- The boulder within the sarcophagus
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