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This book is the most amazing work of scholarship that I have ever read! It is so thoroughly researched that it is impossible not to take it seriously and consider the possibility that what Prof. Hassnain has found, is the truth, long hidden from our view by thousands of years of cover-up. This book gives credence to the recent work of Sylvia Browne in her new book, "The Mystical Life of Jesus" in which she sites Prof. Hassnain's work as a resource. This also gives credence to Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, even though he wrote it as fiction, the threads of truth are impossible to deny. Prof. Hassnain has taken his readers on a journey through the ancient texts, written in their original languages, and brought it out to the world today in language we can all understand and see for ourselves. His work is pure of bias, other than to show the hidden truths that he has uncovered. This is one of the most important works of the century!!! It is proof positive that we have much more to learn about Jesus, his life and his teachings. Instead of contradicting biblical sources, Prof. Hassnain has reached into the ancient texts and brought out the beauty of a life lived as a healer, a teacher, and one who has changed the world as no other. Regardless of one's personal beliefs, this work is scholarly, not religious. It is an extraction of the simple recorded truths of history. I recommend that this book be on everyone's shelf! It is one of the most important books I've ever read.

This is a wonderful book that negates all the propaganda pushed by theologians and organized Christianity for over two thousand years. Jesus lived long after the crucifixion. Other reviewers say it better than I. My main purpose is to tell you that a new reprinted edition is available at the Down to Earth Bookstore for a very reasonable price. Do not miss the opportunity to read this book or the work of Holger Kersten who wrote "Jesus lived in India". Thank you and have a great day!

It was after reading Professor Hassnain's book that I decided to go to Kashmir and see this "grave of Jesus" for myself. What began as a short excursion became almost a year in Kashmir and is now a lifetime passion. His evidence was so overwhelming and his reserach so thorough, that it draws one in. That is scholarship at its very finest. I remained in Kashmir nearly a year. As I delved deeper and asked more questions, Professor Hassnain always made the time to help me, just as he had numerous other authors and researchers who came for the same reasons. Each author, including myself, has acknowledged Professor Hassnain's contributions to their own research and books. But the truth remains that without Professor Hassnain living in close proximity to the tomb, and having access to secret and unknown documents, the world would not have had this information in the first place. This is a brave man, and a brilliant scholar. Now in his eighties, with white hair and a sparkle in his eye that never diminishes,he is a national treasure of Kashmir. We are blessed to have this book as a beacon for scholars past, present, and future. This book is already a classic, referred to time and again. I highly recommend it to anyone studying the history of Jews in Kashmir, and particularly the life of Jesus in India.

This truly extraordinary - some would claim utterly unbelievable - piece of scholarship contains no messages from the Archangel Gabriel, no interviews with extra-terrestrials, and no Elvis, Princess Di (or Jesus) sightings. What it does contain are decades of verifiable research performed by a distinguished seventy-three-year-old Indian Professor of History who has drawn the - some would also claim utterly fantastic - conclusion that Jesus of Nazareth did not die on the cross as hundreds of millions of Christians like myself are taught to believe.Instead, he spent the second half of his life studying and teaching in the East before he died in the Himalayan province now known as Kashmir.Obviously, if the theory that Christ lived to a ripe old age were somehow proven, it would stand the entire Christian world on its head overnight, thanks to a millennium of emotional, spiritual, political and economic investment in his supposed martyrdom at the hands of the Roman conquerors of the Holy Land. But Professor Hassnain is not out to discredit modern Christianity, with which he says he has no axe to grind. Though a traditional Northern Indian Muslim by birth, over time he crossed over into Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam, and therefore now believes that all religions should be honored equally as expressions of a divine oneness. Hassnain is careful to point out that Judaism, Christianity and Islam can all be traced to the same historical root: Abraham. He says that his motivation for spending so many years of his life researching the earthly existence of the flesh and blood Jesus owes itself to his reverence for one of humanity's great prophets and to his deeply-held desire to free up Christianity's monopoly on Him whom they call the Son of God.His hope in so doing is that at least some of the chasm of misunderstanding between the world's great religions might thereby be bridged. No, Fida Hassnain is no crackpot, which I'm sure he will be labeled by Christian "authorities" everywhere should they ever happen to get their hands on this admittedly incredible book. Rather he is a scholar of the highest order who himself is a direct descendent of a grandson of Mohammed on his mother's side. And he has left few stones unturned in his voluminous research, which as Director of Archives for the Jammu and Kashmir states in the 1960s, he was then in a rare position to begin. Nor is he the first to write a book alleging that Jesus physically survived the crucifixion. The previously published Jesus Lived in India, by Holger Kersten, made the same claim. Kersten, it should be noted, relied heavily on Professor Hassnain's discoveries about Jesus' "second life" in the East.When one begins digging into the wealth of historical material presented here, Professor Hassnain's proposition is not nearly as far-out as it first might suggest. For instance, writes Hassnain, it has been forgotten how wide the Jewish diaspora was in ancient times, extending into Asia to such an e

The New Testament Gospels are the worlds primary source of information about the life of Jesus. As most of you probably know the Gospels only tell us about His birth, His childhood up to about 4, then skips about 8 years, there is a short story when He is 12, this skips about 17 years, and at the age of 30 He starts to spread His word. This book deals with the missing years, and uses mostly eastern, or more recently discovered texts to help us learn more about the life of Jesus. By discovering the missing years this book also explains a great deal about the similarities of many religious, especially Christianity and Buddhism. This book also explains a great deal about the Crucifixion and what happened thereafter. Professor Fida Hassnain has great respect for Jesus and I think this is very clear in this book. This material is presented in the most non-offensive way possible, and Christians interested in learning more about their Lord should defiantly read this book. It contains many quotes, and is one of the most well documented books I have seen. This book can easily be a springboard into research upon this subject with all the reference information at the end of each chapter. Finally this book is a must read for any Buddhist living in a Christian country.