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The Jesus Sutra

Tales of an unlikely Himalayan pilgrim

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Nicolas Notovitch (1858—?), a contemporary of Helena Blavatsky, published in 1894 the book La vie inconnue de Jesus-Christ [The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ], in which he explained that Christ had lived for about fifteen years in the East. Notovitch had allegedly heard in 1887, on his journey to India and Ladakh, that in the archives of Lhasa there lay an ancient document about the life of Jesus Christ, of which there were copies at great Tibetan monasteries, including Hemis Monastery in Ladakh. After some toing and froing, Notovitch said, the head of Hemis brought out the Tibetan text and read out to him the passages that were about the life of Christ and let him translate.

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