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The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ about the records of Isha's life that were kept there. She wrote: “In Leh there is the legend of Jesus who is called Isha, and the. Monastery at Himis also holds precious documents, fifteen hundred years old, which tell us of the days that he passed in Leh, where he was joyously received and where he preached.".
In 1939 Elizabeth Caspari (who later established the first Montessori school in the United States) and Mrs. Clarence Gasque visited the Himis monastery. The Abbot showed her some scrolls, which he allowed her to examine, saying: “These books say your Jesus was here."
Robert Ravicz, a former professor of anthropology at California State University at Northridge, visited Himis in 1975. A Ladakh physician to him he met there spoke of Jesus having been there during His “lost years."
In the late 1970s, Edward Noack, author of Amidst Ice and Nomads in High Asia, and his wife visited the Himis monastery. A monk there told him: “There are manuscripts in our library that describe the journey of Jesus to the East.”
Thus there are evidences that support the contention of Notovitch.
According to Virchand Gandhi there are certain unknown features about Jesus in India. For example, there are some ancient scrolls which reveal that Jesus spent seventeen years in India and Tibet and from age thirteen to age twenty-nine, he was both a student and teacher of Buddhist and Hindu holy men.
There are some important references to Jesus having visited India. The story of his journey from Jerusalem to Benares was recorded by Brahman historians and even today they still know him and love him as St. Issa, their 'Buddha'.
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