Günter Grönbold (

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, 18 September 1943) is a German

Indologist Indology, also known as South Asian studies, is the academic study of the history and cultures, languages, and literature of the Indian subcontinent, and as such is a subset of Asian studies. The term ''Indology'' (in German, ''Indologie'') is ...

and

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. He was head of the Oriental Section at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich. He is an authority on the

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and the Buddhist art of the

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and has translated various Sanskrit and Tibetan texts into German. He is best known outside the field of Tibetology and Indology for a side step from his work in Buddhist texts to review the evidence for the belief of a visit of

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and the

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"tomb of Jesus" in

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taught as part of

Jesus in Ahmadiyya Islam Ahmadiyya Muslims consider Jesus ('' ʿĪsā'') as a mortal man, entirely human, and a prophet of God born to the Virgin Mary (''Maryam''). Jesus is understood to have survived the crucifixion based on the account of the canonical Gospels, t ...

- which Grönbold critically refutes.Mark Bothe Die "Jesus-in-Indien-Legende" - Eine alternative Jesus-Erzählung? 2011 Page 85 "Die Fremd-Einordnung der Kritiker a) Günter Grönbold, Roman Heiligenthal – Die JiIL als Ergebnis der ... setzt die Motivation hinter der JiIL vor allem aus drei Richtungen her an: den schwärmerischen Gedanken des ausgehenden 19." Page 86 "Ergebnisse von

Fida Hassnain Fida Muhammad Hassnain (Urdu فدا حسنین; Srinagar, 1924 – 2016) was a Kashmiri writer, lecturer and Sufi mystic. __NOTOC__ He was born in 1924 in Srinagar, Kashmir, as the child of schoolteachers. His father fought with the British Indi ...

gingen bereits auf Ghulam Ahmad zurück: „ ie wir sahenhat all das schon Ghulam Ahmad verkündet. Und daß Prof. Hassnain von Ahmad weiß, ist sicher.“282 Diese Verbindung werde jedoch von den .."

Works

* ''Sad-anga-Yoga'' * ''Materialien zur Geschichte des Sadahga-Yoga: III''. * ''Der buddhistische Kanon: eine Bibliographie'', Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1984 * '' Jesus in Indien. Das Ende einer Legende''. Kösel, München, 1985

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