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Representative source

The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ

Nineteenth-century source of the popular claim that Jesus traveled to India and Tibet as “Issa.”

Author: Nicholas Notovitch
Publisher: Rand, McNally & Company
Tradition: Modern apocryphal claim
Accessed: 2026-06-18

Citation

Nicholas Notovitch, The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ, translated by J. H. Connelly and L. Landsberg, Rand, McNally & Company, 1894.

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Where this source is used

Jesus learned his teachings in IndiaNo ancient source puts Jesus in India. The story began with an 1894 book whose cited monastery denied it, and his teaching is rooted in first-century Judaism.