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Nicolas Notovitch, the translator of Hemis monastery Buddhist scrolls Nicolas Notovitch (1858-?) was a Russian aristocrat and journalist known for his contention that during the years of Jesus Christ's life[1][2][3][4] missing from the Bible, he followed travelling merchants abroad into India and the Hemis Monastery in Ladakh[5], Nepal, where he studied Buddhism. Notovitch's writings were immediately controversial and after the German orientalist Max Mueller corresponded with the Hemis monastery Notovitch claimed to have visited, and Archibald Douglas visited Hemis Monastery, and both found no evidence that Notovich (much less Jesus) had even been there himself, his claims were widely rejected. The head of the Hemis community signed a document that denounced Notovitch as an outright liar. However, the claims were taken up by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the founder of the Ahmadiyya sect, and one member of this sect, the modern scholar Fida Hassnain claims the visit to be real and there are others who claim to have seen the same manuscripts. Issa can be taken as the name of Jesus since Jesus was not his name, in Pakistan and India christians call Jesus as "Yassu Masih" in jewish "Joshua" which when turned into arabic or irani Yosua since many times j becomes y and among the arabs it is a notable fact that many hebrew words which have sh becomes s. A translation of the text that Notovitch claimed to find can be found here. This Hemis Tibetan monastery was along the silk route, when Ladakh was formerly part of Tibet, before India became a nation, and to this day, monks who live here claim that "Issa" was a former student. In the Notovich translation, the section regarding Pontius Pilate is of particular note; in this version of the events around the death of Jesus, the Sanhedrin go to Pilate and argue to save the life of Jesus, and they are the ones who 'wash their hands' of his death, instead of the Roman Pilate.
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1. ^ The unknown life of Jesus Christ by Nickolai Notovich (1894) 2. ^ The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ by Nicholas; Translated from the French By Virchand R. Gandhi; Revised By G. L. Chistie Notovich and Black/white Illus (1907) 3. ^ The unknown life of Jesus Christ by Nicolas Notovich (1974) 4. ^ The Unknown Life of Jesus: The Original Text of Nicolas Notovich's 1887 Discovery by Nicolas Notovich, J.H Connelly, and L Landsberg (2004) 5. ^ The Vedic Prophecies: A New Look into the Future by Stephen Knapp (1998) p.12 [edit] External links http://www.utahkrishnas.com/main/page.asp?id=431 http://home.swipnet.se/corbie/Fuskwww/notov.html http://essenes.net/sstibetg.html http://reluctant-messenger.com/issa1.htm
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Max Heindel, The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception: Involution, Evolution and Epigenesis, November 1909, ISBN 0-911274-34-0 www [edit] See also Emanationism Esoteric cosmology Involution (philosophy) Plane (cosmology) Spiritual evolution