''Jesus in Indien. Das Ende einer Legende'' is a 1985 book by the German

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Günter Grönbold Günter Grönbold (Munich, 18 September 1943) is a German Indologist and Tibetologist. He was head of the Oriental Section at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich. He is an authority on the Pāli Canon and the Buddhist art of the Silk Road and ha ...

investigating the Islamic, Christian and Buddhist source material used by the Ahmaddiya Muslim founder Ghulam Ahmad in his book ''Jesus in India''. The book is Grönbold's best known book among the general public in Germany, and is the most cited scholarly text about the sources of Ahmad's interpretation and the

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shrine among subsequent academic and popular writing. Following consideration of the original context and history of the literary sources cited by Ahmad and later Ahmaddiya supporters of the theory that Jesus of Nazareth survived the crucifixion and made a journey to India and was buried in Srinagar

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, Grönbold concludes that Ahmad misidentified material about the putative Christian saint "Yuzafa" from the

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traditions telling a Christianized version of the life of

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, as being material concerning Jesus of Nazareth. Grönbold's work was revisited, cited and developed by

Norbert Klatt Norbert Klatt (24 December 1949 – 1 October 2015) was a German scholar of Buddhism and Christianity and publisher; he was the founder of Norbert Klatt Verlag, Göttingen. Klatt proposed Buddhist influence on some New Testament narratives (1982), ...

(1988) and Mark Bothe (2009, 2013). Bothe regarded Grönbold as the first and only scholar in the area to have developed a history of the origination of the various "Jesus in India" legends.Mark Bothe ''Die Jesus-in-Indien-Legende: Über eine alternative Lebensgeschichte'' 3640439791 2009 "Die Geschichte der Jesus-in-Indien-Legende Um die Jesus-in-Indien-Legende, kurz JiIL, verstehen zu können, benötigt man zu Beginn einen Blick auf ihre Entstehungsgeschichte. Als bisher einziger hat Günter Grönbold versucht, eine Darstellung dieser Entstehungsgeschichte zu geben. Ihm zufolge gibt es zu verschiedenen Zeiten immer wieder neue, voneinander abhängige Werke, die der heutigen JiIL als Grundlage

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