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There is much speculation about where and how Jesus spent his
twenties. The bible does not tell us anything about his life during
this time. This book by the Russian doctor Nicolas Notovitch is the
source of the idea that he might have spent this time in India. The
book contains a travelogue of the author's trip through India.
Whilst convalescing from a broken leg an ancient manuscript is read
to him about Issa. The manunscript allegedly tells of Jesus (Issa)
as he treks through India studying the Vedas and Buddhism before he
returns to Israel and take up his ministry as it is described in
the bible. Even though the authenticity, or indeed the existence,
of the manuscript has never been proven, the rumours of St Issa
have refused to die.
Controversial since it was first published in 1890, Nicolas
Notovitch's "The Unknown Life of Jesus" relates that Jesus Christ
spent at least part of the years of his life unaccounted for in the
Bible--from the age of 13 to 29--teaching and studying in India and
other parts of Asia. Notovitch was on an "extended journey through
the Orient...to study the customs and habits of the inhabitants of
India." During his travels, he visited a Buddhist monastery near
Mulbek, close to the Wakha River. Here a Lama told him that Jesus,
whom the Buddhists called "Issa," had visited the region and that
there were ancient manuscripts documenting Jesus' visit and that
copies existed at other monasteries. Notovitch was able to convince
the monks at the Hemis Monastery to read from these documents and,
as an interpreter translated, Notovitch transcribed.
One of the mysteries of the Bible has always been where Jesus was
during his twenties. There is a huge gap in the biography from
puberty until about three years before the crucifixion. The
simplest inference is that he was working as a carpenter with his
father and that nothing remarkable happened to him during this
period. This prosaic scenario, Jesus as a salt-of-the-earth working
man, is in character with the rest of what we know about him, and
there is no good reason to invalidate it. One rumor that has
circulated for years has been that Jesus went to India during this
time. There were well-established trade routes, so it would not be
impossible. If Alexander the Great got there several centuries
earlier, why not Jesus? This book is the source of that rumor. In
the late nineteenth century a Russian, Nicolas Notovitch, published
a travelogue of a trip through India, into Kashmir, eventually
reaching Ladakh in Tibet. At this point, the book takes a
sensational turn. A lama informs him that Jesus is revered as a
Boddhisattva, under the name Issa, by a splinter sect of the
Tibetan Buddhists. While Notovitch is convalescing from a broken
leg, an ancient manuscript read to him about Issa. This tells of
Jesus trekking to India to study the Vedas and Buddhism. Jesus
stirs up a caste war against the Brahmins and has to leave India.
Then Jesus returns home, stopping off briefly in Persia, where he
preaches against Zoroastrianism. This account was supposed to have
been written shortly after Jesus' death.
An unabridged edition translated by J. H. Connelly and L. Landsberg
from Nicolas Notovitch's 1887 Discovery -
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