The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ

Name: The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ
Author: Nicolas Notovitch
ISBN: 9781911535522

Author: Nicolas Notovitch
Series: Christian Classics
Language: English
Length: 114 pages
ISBN: 9781911535522
Published: 26 September 2016
Imprint: Adelphi Press

Jesus
divinity
divine
cosmology
Christianity
religion
faith
truth
wisdom
spiritual meditations

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Notovitch’s disputed claim: Tibetan records of Jesus’s ‘lost years’ in the East. The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ is 1894 sensation — pilgrimage, a hidden manuscript, a Jesus among Buddhists. History it is not; as a document of hunger for another gospel, it still travels. Scholars said the monastery had no such book. Believers wanted the missing years filled. Read it as a period craze with a long afterlife in alternative Jesus lore, not as a source.

Author

Nicolas Notovitch (1858 – after 1934) was a Crimean-born adventurer and writer best known for The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ (1894), which claimed Jesus spent his 'lost years' studying in India. The story, said to rest on a manuscript at Hemis Monastery, was disputed almost at once and is generally treated as a hoax by modern scholars. The book nonetheless remains a vivid artefact of nineteenth-century Orientalist spiritual speculation.

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