# Mythology **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 13, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology/188191 "2003-07-13T17:54:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@hari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hari)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology/188191/1 "2003-07-13T17:54:02Z")
Did jesus come to Kashmir? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology/188191/2 "2003-07-13T18:11:10Z")
Well, according to [this](http://www.alislam.org/library/jesusinkashmir.html), not only did he go there, he died and was buried there, too. Make of this what you will. ---
**Author:** ![hari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@hari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hari)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology/188191/3 "2003-07-13T19:46:02Z")
I would perhaps like a Christian perspective to this question. Also if anyone could give links which could give evidences proving he was in Kashmir it would make things far more interesting ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology/188191/4 "2003-07-13T19:51:50Z")
Well, a Christian perspective might suggest he is/was in all places at once, so I suppose in a sense he’s still in Kashmir… ---
**Author:** ![radar\_ralf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@radar\_ralf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/radar_ralf)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology/188191/5 "2003-07-13T20:02:39Z")
I haven’t seen Jesus on any of the links where I play. But I swear there was a fella in plaid and houndstooth that **must** have been Lucifer on the 13th green the other day. ---
**Author:** ![hari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@hari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hari)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology/188191/6 "2003-07-13T20:03:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dutchboy208 \* > \*\*Well, a Christian perspective might suggest he is/was in all places at once, so I suppose in a sense he’s still in Kashmir… \*\* Well I didnt ask for aethetic answers.I asked for substantial evidence.Can you show me jesus right now ?😕 😃 ---
**Author:** ![radar\_ralf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@radar\_ralf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/radar_ralf)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology/188191/7 "2003-07-13T20:09:49Z")
Uh oh… this one is not gonna stay in GQ for much longer… by the way, welcome to SDMB, **hari** ---
**Author:** ![radar\_ralf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@radar\_ralf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/radar_ralf)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology/188191/8 "2003-07-13T20:11:32Z")
Oh, and just to stay consistent, you should probably use lower case letters for Kashmir and any other proper noun in here… ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology/188191/9 "2003-07-13T21:12:05Z")
Not sure what you’re asking here, **hari** , if the first answer wasn’t good for you. Are you asking if there’s any indication in the Christian bible that Jesus physically visited the Kashmir region of India/Pakistan while he was alive? No. There’s not. Is the question something else? Please be more specific. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology/188191/10 "2003-07-13T21:20:58Z")
I don’t think we’re going to find an aswer here. From Hindu author and researcher, Jonah Blank: > [@](#): > > There has been no serious scholarly effort devoted to this matter, and to the best of my knowledge there is no scientific evidence to support the proposition that Jesus ever visited Kashmir–nor, for that matter, is there any evidence to disprove the supposition. Since the life of Jesus is largely a blank slate between his birth and the beginning of his ministry, and since the death and resurrection of Jesus are treated entirely differently in Christian and in Muslim traditions, the question is one of faith rather than science. From [here.](http://www.beliefnet.com/story/33/story_3318_1.html). ---
**Author:** ![hari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@hari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hari)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology/188191/11 "2003-07-13T21:22:20Z")
I was looking more in the lines of archeological and scientific evidences.Evidences from Christian scriptures and sources other than those in the bible will also interest me. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mythology/188191/12 "2003-07-14T00:37:04Z")
**Hari** , there have been urban legends around since forever that Jesus studied the “wisdom of the East” (usually perpetrated by romantics who don’t have a clue about Buddhism, Vedanta philosophy, or the schools of Chinese wisdom) during the years between his apearance at the Temple at age 12 and beginning his ministry at age 30. As of the last I’d read for myself, they were supported by no evidence other than wishful thinking. **Badchad** , a skeptical person who visits Great Debates regularly, indicated that he was reading one of the latest of these, a book by Elizabeth Clare Prophet, which purported to provide some actual evidence, and I believe he said that he’d report back on what that evidence was and if it was borne out by original sources. But that’s the status at the moment – a lot of puffery founded on no concrete evidence, and a hint that there may be evidence in a book by a woman generally regarded by most thoughtful people, Christian and skeptical alike, as something of a nutcase. BTW, do not trust the “apocryphal Gospels” with perhaps the exception of the Gospel of Thomas (not the “infancy Gospel of Thomas” which is a quite different work) – they were rejected very soon after their composition, not (as is sometimes said) because they did not conform to church doctrine (though that is true) but because they were lrgely made up out of whole cloth, with a smattering of canonical stories sometimes stirred in to lend an air of authenticity to the rest of it. And, out of curiosity, why did you title the thread “mythology”?