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The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ The chronicles in question were written before, during and after Jesus Christ; but during his sojourn in India, where he went as a mere pilgrim to study the Brahmin and Buddhist laws no special attention was given him. But later, when the first reports of these events in Israel reached India, the chroniclers after having consigned to writing all they had heard about the prophet Issa whom an oppressed race had followed and who by order of Pilate had been put to death, remembered that this same Issa of Israelite origin had recently lived and studied among them and then returned to his own country. Soon an interest was created for this man who had so rapidly grown in importance in their eyes and they immediately began to inquire about his birth, his death and all the details of his life.
The two manuscripts read to me by the Lama of the Himis monastery were collections of different copies written in the Thibetan language-translations of some rolls belonging to the Library of Lassa and brought from India, Nepal and Magadha, about 200 years after Christ, to a convent standing on Mount Marbour near Lassa where the Dalai Lama ņow resides.
These rolls were written in the Pali language which certain Lamas study in order to be able to translate into the Thibetan dialect.
The chroniclers were Buddhists belonging to the sect of Buddha Gotama. The references relating to Jesus in these chronicles are not put in order but are mixed up without sequence or coherence so far as contemporary events are concerned.
The manuscript begins without explanation or detail the accounts as they were given by some merchants who came from Judea in the year of the death of Jesus, that a just man by the name of Issa, an Israelite, after having been twice acquitted by the judges as being the man of God, was nevertheless put to death by the order of the heathen Governor Pilate, who feared
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