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About this Book
Controversial since it was first
published in 1890, Nicolas Notovitch’s The Unknown Life of Jesus
Christ relates that Jesus Christ spent 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.
Intrigued, Notovitch determined to delay
his return to Europe with the hope of viewing these documents himself.
On his way to Leh, the capital of Ladak, Notovitch found himself laid up
at the Hemis Monastery with a broken leg. During his stay, he eventually
convinced one of the monks to read from these documents and, as an
interpreter translated, Notovitch transcribed.
Much of what Notovitch recorded supports
and amplifies the Jesus the West is familiar with. For instance, Jesus
is said to have angered the priests of Brahma over his teachings that
humans, regardless of caste, are equal. Yet, the material Notovitch
recorded present an expanded view of Jesus’ teachings, more in line with
the recently discovered texts known as the Gnostic Gospels—yet Notovitch
was writing 50 years before the discovery of these texts. An example of
this is the Tibetan manuscripts’ record of Jesus preaching that within
each person “dwells a part of the spirit of the Most High.”
Notovitch’s account was originally
dismissed by scholars and theologians as a hoax, yet corroborative
information has subsequently surfaced, and the controversy raised by
Notovitch’s manuscript rages today with new vigor.
Reviews
This book, an all-time classic, includes a lengthy
and absolutely fascinating translation of a Tibetan manuscript found by
Nicholas Notovitch, a Russian aristocrat, author and explorer, in the
Hemis Buddhist Monastery in the 1890's. This authentic document reveals
that Jesus Christ spent those "missing years" (unaccounted for in the
Bible), between the ages of 13 to 29, in India and Asia.
Read about the six years he spent in Juggarnaut, Rajegriha, Benares and
other holy cities, gaining the love and respect of all whom he
encountered (except the priests!) Read about his defense of the lower
castes, 'the Vaisyas and the Sudras, and his bold stance against the
Brahman and Kshatriyas; and later, when he arrived in Persia en route
back to Jerusalem, the fear he instilled in the Zoroastrian priests
through his teaching to the common people that',"As long as the people
had no priests...Their souls were in God."
—Brave Heart Books, April 2004
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