Da Vinci Code Proven Wrong
As read in a NY Times story, Japan is proud home of Christ's tomb ....
IN A paddy-lined valley in the far north of Japan is a municipal signpost inscribed: “Tomb of Christ: next left.” .... For two millennia the farming village of Shingo claims to have protected a tradition that Jesus spent most of his life in Japan. The village is the home of Sajiro Sawaguchi, a man in his eighties who claims to be a direct descendant of Jesus .... The claim is widely believed. About 40,000 Japanese visit the site every year .... According to the account in the Christ Museum next to the tombs, Christ arrived in Japan at the age of 21 and learnt Japanese before returning to Judaea 12 years later to engage in his mission and preach about the “holy land of Japan”. The official Shingo history is that Jesus’s place on the Cross was “casually” taken by his brother, leaving Christ free to return to Japan. On his return he fell in love with Miyuko, a local girl, and lived happily with his family among the rice fields until dying aged 106.
Dan Brown got it wrong ... Jesus' descendants are not Merovingian after all :-)
posted by crystal | 1:10 AM
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:-)).I heard at TV an Indian guru saying that Jesus was in India before preaching in his natal land...and that he did not died on the cross because he knew yoga techniques.Of course that he returned in India to spend the rest of his life. In the place of Dan Brown I would have opted for this variant.:-))
In Islamic and Sufi traditions, it is said that Jesus didn't die on the cross, that the cruxifiction was an illusion of sorts, after which he travelled to the far east, into china and beyond. There are supposedly shrines and such throughout afganistan and other places which claim to have been stopping places for his journey, or so I am told.
It is funny, but it does alert us to the diversity of traditions there are out there (Kevin's comment is interesting in this regard).
Crystal, the link to the NYT article didn't work. Can you fix that?
Paula - yes, I've heard that too. I think there's a book about Jesus' time in India ... interesting but strange.
Kevin - I found a Wikipedia link to the supposed tomb of Jesus in Kashmir :-)
Liam - here's the original link - link 1 and here's another one, in case that one doesn't work ... link 2
Thanks, Crystal, that one worked.
I see the "tradition" started only in 1935. Hmmm...
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