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Jesús vivió y murió en Cachemira
Barcelona. 23 cm. 253 p. il., mapas, planos. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta. Faber-Kaiser, Andreas 1944-1994. Jesús vivió y murió en Cachemira. Prólogo de Iker Jiménez. Bibliografí p. 241-253. Jesucristo. Leyendas .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. 8467215224
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256 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1976
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February 13, 2022
Uma fascinante e fantástica viagem em torno da hipótese de Jesus ter terminado a sua vida na Índia, no estado de Cachemira. Uma investigação séria, datada no tempo, que merecia continuidade por parte de teólogos e estudiosos das ciências da religião.
December 30, 2022
Este libro en su momento fue bastante polemico en España y era de esos que los tenia en casa toda una generacion.
No es gran cosa, no esta muy bien escrito, las premisas y los razonamientos cuanto menos vagos y ha envejecido mal.
No es gran cosa, no esta muy bien escrito, las premisas y los razonamientos cuanto menos vagos y ha envejecido mal.
December 9, 2020
Lo que dice aquí en este libro podría ser, por que no. Parece muy lógica, coherente y profesional la investigación, sin fanatismo religioso ni manipulación, ni sentimentalismo como acostumbran las religiones sobre todo las cristianas.
October 16, 2023
Cómo amante de los "What if...?", Jesus vivió y murió en Cachemira fue todo un deleite. Personalmente creo que Jesús existió pero como una persona de carne y hueso, por tal razón siempre me han gustado las historias de Jesús retratado como un hombre común y corriente, con sus virtudes y defectos, tal como en el fabuloso libro "El testamento según Jesucristo" de José Saramago o películas como "La Última Tentación de Cristo" de Martin Scorsese, y este libro me transmitió lo mismo, Andreas Faber-Kaiser nos trae una investigación en donde plantea que realmente Jesús sobrevivió la crucifixión y después de ese evento se trasladó a la India en donde murió.
Jesus vivió y murió en Cachemira nos trae una hipótesis interesante, apoyándose de algunos versículos de la Biblia y relatos e historias desde la India, Andreas construye una investigación partiendo desde el hecho de que Jesús no murió en la cruz y luego de su supuesta resurrección tuvo que huir a la India para iniciar una nueva vida.
Este es un libro bastante peculiar y que se debe tomar con pinzas ya que aunque esta fundamentado en algunos apartados por temas científicos y versiones de la época, siento que el autor acomoda, en ciertas partes, su investigación para darle validez a su teoría, aún así es interesante como en ciertas partes de la India se ha verenado a Jesús e incluso cuenta con descendientes que creen fervientemente que el llamado hijo del hombre en algún punto de su vida estuvo en sus tierras.
Jesus vivió y murió en Cachemira nos trae una hipótesis interesante, apoyándose de algunos versículos de la Biblia y relatos e historias desde la India, Andreas construye una investigación partiendo desde el hecho de que Jesús no murió en la cruz y luego de su supuesta resurrección tuvo que huir a la India para iniciar una nueva vida.
Este es un libro bastante peculiar y que se debe tomar con pinzas ya que aunque esta fundamentado en algunos apartados por temas científicos y versiones de la época, siento que el autor acomoda, en ciertas partes, su investigación para darle validez a su teoría, aún así es interesante como en ciertas partes de la India se ha verenado a Jesús e incluso cuenta con descendientes que creen fervientemente que el llamado hijo del hombre en algún punto de su vida estuvo en sus tierras.
January 18, 2026
La premisa me parecía muy interesante y esperaba mucho de este libro pero me topé con un libro repetitivo y aburrido.
No sé si caiga en el género de divulgación científica o algo por el estilo pero en definitiva no fue de mi agrado, además de que siento que no ha envejecido bien.
No sé si caiga en el género de divulgación científica o algo por el estilo pero en definitiva no fue de mi agrado, además de que siento que no ha envejecido bien.
September 30, 2023
ANOTHER ARGUMENT THAT JESUS DID NOT DIE ON THE CROSS, HAD CHILDREN, ETC.
The introductory section of this 1976 book explains, “Andreas Faber-Kaiser is a philosopher and works as a journalist and a scholar of comparative religion. He first became intrigued by the Kashmir Hypothesis when he heard of Jesus’ tomb in Kashmir; he made enquiries and finally decided to go himself to Kashmir to investigate. Gradually he pieced together an impressive dossier which fills a number of Biblical lacunae that have perplexed scholars for hundreds of years.”
He wrote in the Introduction, “the accepted Christian dogma … is not the whole story, for Jesus’ body is said to lie in the crypt of ‘Rozabal’ in the Khanyar district of Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir. How can this be possible if the Biblical account of Jesus’s resurrection is correct? The fact is that there is no historical evidence that Jesus did die on the cross, and there is no record that anyone witnessed the resurrection. There is, though, considerable evidence that a man with the same ideas and philosophy as Jesus set out eastwards at precisely this time, leaving behind him a trail of proof of his life and act. This man made his way to Kashmir, where he remained until his death. This evidence forms the basis of the hypothesis that I put forward in this book: that Jesus did not die on the cross, and that, once his crucifixion wounds had healed, he travelled eastwards in search of the ten lost tribes of Israel, who lived thousands of miles east of Palestine. I suggest that he departed from Palestine with his mother Mary and his disciple Thomas, who accompanied him on the long trek east to Kashmir, the land known as ‘Heaven on Earth.’ Mary did not survive the rigors of the journey, but died in Pakistan, near the border with Kashmir. Her reputed tomb there is still venerated as the burial place of Jesus’s mother. Jesus settled down in Kashmir, began a new life, and finally died a natural death at a ripe old age. Thomas, who was with Jesus when he died, returned to visit Mary’s tomb, then made his way to southern India, where he dies.
“Numerous legends, traditions and ancient texts indicate that Jesus came to Kashmir from Palestine and died there. They also tell us that he fathered children in Kashmir. A man now living in Srinegar, Sahifzada Basharat Saleem, has in his possession a genealogical table tracing his descent directly from Jesus. There is also evidence that Jesus visited Kashmir during his youth, of which the Bible says virtually nothing more than that he visited Jerusalem when he was twelve. At the end of the last century, Nicolai Notavitch, a Russian traveller, discovered copies of some ancient documents in the lamasery of Hemis in Ladakh, near the Kashmir-Tibet border. These manuscripts, preserved for centuries by the Himalayan lamas, recorded Jesus’ early trip to India, accounting for precisely the eighteen years of his life of which the Bible says nothing. If we accept only the Biblical version of Christ’s life, this long gap would occasion serious doubts about whether the child and the man Jesus are the same person…” (Pg. 1-3)
He argues, “I have come to the conclusion that the human need for a ‘happy’ ending to the mystery personified by Christ demanded the Resurrection be followed by an ascension, so transferring Christ’s abode from earth to heaven. Indeed, without an ascension, the Resurrection would lack meaning, for the former is the logical consequence of the latter. Therefore, the ascension seems not an effectively proved act, but a phenomenon created by a process of logical deduction in the human mind. On the other hand, Christ cannot have ascended if he had not previous been resurrected, and he cannot have been resurrected if, as we are arguing, he had not died of the cross.” (Pg. 48)
He recounts, “I consulted … Professor Hassnian… He told me that to his knowledge the only written source on this subject was the ‘Negaris-Tan-i-Kashmnir,’ an old Persian book that had been translated into Urdu, and that relates that king Shalewahin… told Jesus that he needed a woman to take care of him, and offered him his choice of fifty. Jesus replied that he did not need any and that no one was obliged to work for him, but the king persisted until Jesus agreed to employ a woman to cook for him, look after his house and do his washing… the woman’s name was Maryan, and … the same book says that she bore Jesus children.” (Pg. 90-91)
He concludes, “The aim of this book had been to inform as wide a section of the reading public as possible of matters that are still not widely enough known, seeing how important a bearing they have on beliefs about Jesus, who is indisputably the person who, through the various forms of Christianity, had had the strongest influence on the evolution of Western culture. This book is a dossier of what is today said, known and believed about the possibility that Jesus did not die on the cross and did not ascend physically into heaven.” (Pg. 166)
Faber-Kaiser met a few people we have not encountered in similar books, but he has as little evidence for his position as all the others.
The introductory section of this 1976 book explains, “Andreas Faber-Kaiser is a philosopher and works as a journalist and a scholar of comparative religion. He first became intrigued by the Kashmir Hypothesis when he heard of Jesus’ tomb in Kashmir; he made enquiries and finally decided to go himself to Kashmir to investigate. Gradually he pieced together an impressive dossier which fills a number of Biblical lacunae that have perplexed scholars for hundreds of years.”
He wrote in the Introduction, “the accepted Christian dogma … is not the whole story, for Jesus’ body is said to lie in the crypt of ‘Rozabal’ in the Khanyar district of Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir. How can this be possible if the Biblical account of Jesus’s resurrection is correct? The fact is that there is no historical evidence that Jesus did die on the cross, and there is no record that anyone witnessed the resurrection. There is, though, considerable evidence that a man with the same ideas and philosophy as Jesus set out eastwards at precisely this time, leaving behind him a trail of proof of his life and act. This man made his way to Kashmir, where he remained until his death. This evidence forms the basis of the hypothesis that I put forward in this book: that Jesus did not die on the cross, and that, once his crucifixion wounds had healed, he travelled eastwards in search of the ten lost tribes of Israel, who lived thousands of miles east of Palestine. I suggest that he departed from Palestine with his mother Mary and his disciple Thomas, who accompanied him on the long trek east to Kashmir, the land known as ‘Heaven on Earth.’ Mary did not survive the rigors of the journey, but died in Pakistan, near the border with Kashmir. Her reputed tomb there is still venerated as the burial place of Jesus’s mother. Jesus settled down in Kashmir, began a new life, and finally died a natural death at a ripe old age. Thomas, who was with Jesus when he died, returned to visit Mary’s tomb, then made his way to southern India, where he dies.
“Numerous legends, traditions and ancient texts indicate that Jesus came to Kashmir from Palestine and died there. They also tell us that he fathered children in Kashmir. A man now living in Srinegar, Sahifzada Basharat Saleem, has in his possession a genealogical table tracing his descent directly from Jesus. There is also evidence that Jesus visited Kashmir during his youth, of which the Bible says virtually nothing more than that he visited Jerusalem when he was twelve. At the end of the last century, Nicolai Notavitch, a Russian traveller, discovered copies of some ancient documents in the lamasery of Hemis in Ladakh, near the Kashmir-Tibet border. These manuscripts, preserved for centuries by the Himalayan lamas, recorded Jesus’ early trip to India, accounting for precisely the eighteen years of his life of which the Bible says nothing. If we accept only the Biblical version of Christ’s life, this long gap would occasion serious doubts about whether the child and the man Jesus are the same person…” (Pg. 1-3)
He argues, “I have come to the conclusion that the human need for a ‘happy’ ending to the mystery personified by Christ demanded the Resurrection be followed by an ascension, so transferring Christ’s abode from earth to heaven. Indeed, without an ascension, the Resurrection would lack meaning, for the former is the logical consequence of the latter. Therefore, the ascension seems not an effectively proved act, but a phenomenon created by a process of logical deduction in the human mind. On the other hand, Christ cannot have ascended if he had not previous been resurrected, and he cannot have been resurrected if, as we are arguing, he had not died of the cross.” (Pg. 48)
He recounts, “I consulted … Professor Hassnian… He told me that to his knowledge the only written source on this subject was the ‘Negaris-Tan-i-Kashmnir,’ an old Persian book that had been translated into Urdu, and that relates that king Shalewahin… told Jesus that he needed a woman to take care of him, and offered him his choice of fifty. Jesus replied that he did not need any and that no one was obliged to work for him, but the king persisted until Jesus agreed to employ a woman to cook for him, look after his house and do his washing… the woman’s name was Maryan, and … the same book says that she bore Jesus children.” (Pg. 90-91)
He concludes, “The aim of this book had been to inform as wide a section of the reading public as possible of matters that are still not widely enough known, seeing how important a bearing they have on beliefs about Jesus, who is indisputably the person who, through the various forms of Christianity, had had the strongest influence on the evolution of Western culture. This book is a dossier of what is today said, known and believed about the possibility that Jesus did not die on the cross and did not ascend physically into heaven.” (Pg. 166)
Faber-Kaiser met a few people we have not encountered in similar books, but he has as little evidence for his position as all the others.
April 19, 2025
chido tu cotorreo, but no
May 16, 2024
En general el libro está bien planteado y es fácil de leer. Si bien el título evocaría algo polémico, por decir algo, el autor logra exponer su hipótesis con varias pruebas, aunque circunstanciales y poco fáciles de comprobar para un lector obsesivo, incluso (a no ser que viaje al lugar), que hilan muy bien su relato y la idea que quiere transmitir. También repasa varias fuentes antigua, Biblia incluida para apoyar su punto de vista.
No es un libro conclusivo sobre el tema; tampoco trata de serlo, pero sí es una buena entrada para tomar en consideración la crucifixión y la posibilidad de que Jesús sobreviviera a dicho tormento para predicar en oriente.
No es un libro conclusivo sobre el tema; tampoco trata de serlo, pero sí es una buena entrada para tomar en consideración la crucifixión y la posibilidad de que Jesús sobreviviera a dicho tormento para predicar en oriente.
August 13, 2020
Ganz lustig. Mehr aber auch nicht.
February 2, 2024
This provided logical explanation of the life for the life and death of Jesus Christ. Although there is not a lot of proof it still provides more evidence the original story taught in the Bible.
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