FINAL WARNING: The Curtain Falls
trying to escape when the Kushans attacked the region of Taxila. The
place she was buried in Pakistan (45 miles east of Taxila) was called
‘Mari’ until 1875, when the spelling was changed to ‘Murree.’ The tomb
is called ‘Mai-Mari-de-Asthan’ or ‘resting place of mother Mary.’ No
other tombs in the world are purported to be that of Mary. Mary
Magdalene is reported to have died at Kashgar, in central Asia, and it
was actually Martha, that took her son, along with some other
followers of Jesus, to France, where she lived till her death.Then came the story of St. Hazrat Issa. Around 1887, Nicolas
Notovitch, a Russian journalist, while traveling in Ladakh in Tibet, had
fallen from his horse and broke his right leg, below the knee, and was
taken to the monastery at Hemis (Himis), 25 miles from Leh, the capital
of Ladakh (400 miles north of Delhi), located in a hidden valley of the
Himalayas, some 11,000 feet above sea level. There, the chief lama
read him the story of Issa, the man he knew as Jesus, which said that
during the 17 years in which he is not mentioned in the scriptures,
Jesus was in India.He was told that they had many scrolls describing the “life and acts of
the Buddha Issa, who preached the holy doctrine in India and among
the children of Israel.” He visited the monastery at Mulbekh, and was
told that at the archives at Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, there were
several thousand ancient scrolls detailing the life of Issa, and that
some of the principal monasteries also had copies.The documents, which had been brought from India, to Nepal, and then
to Tibet, were originally written in Pali, the religious language of the
Buddhists, and then translated into Tibetan. Notovitch believed that
the verses “may have been actually been spoken by St. Thomas–
historical sketches traced by his own hand or under his direction.”There are various references to the apostle Thomas (also known as
Didymus, Judas, and “twin brother of Christ, apostle of the Highest
who shares in the knowledge of the hidden words of Christ...”), who,
according to religious tradition, introduced Christianity to India in 52
AD.The apocryphal Acta Thomae (The Acts of St. Thomas) written in the
early 3rd century, said: “When the Apostles had been for a time in