Book Title: Unknown Life of Jesus Christ New Edition 2009 Publication
Author(s): Nicholas Notovitch, Virchand R Gandhi, Kumarpal Desai
Publisher: World Jain Confederation
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- The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ - that after having adopted the great doctrine of Buddha, they completely separated themselves from him and created a different. Dalai Lama. Ours alone has received the divine favour of seeing face to face the majesty of Buddha and the power to serve as mediator between the earth and the heaven.”
"Who is this Dalai Lama of the Christians, of whom you have just spoken?" asked M. Notovitch to the Lama. "We have a Son of God to whom we address our fervent prayers, and it is to him that we have recourse so that he may intercede for us to our only and indivisible God."
"He is not the one in question here, Sahib. We also respect him whom you recognize as the Son of an only God, but we do not regard him as such but as the excellent being chosen from among all; Buddha, in truth, incarnated himself with his intelligence in the sacred person of Issa, who without the aid of either fire or sword went forth to spread our grand and true religion throughout the world. I allude to your earthly Dalai Lama-to whom you give the title of the Father of the Church. There lies the great sin: Is he able to save the sinners who are on the wrong road?” began the Lama twirling his prayer-wheel. Of course, he alluded to the Pope.
"You have just told me that a son of Buddha, Issa, had been chosen to spread your religion over the world. Who then is he?" asked M. Notovitch.
The Lama was amazed at the question but said in reply:" Issa is a great prophet, one of the first after the twenty-two Buddhas; he is greater than all the Dalai Lamas, for he constitutes a part of the spirituality of God. It is he who has instructed you, who brings back the frivolous souls to the knowledge of God, who has rendered you worthy of the blessings of the Creator, and who has endowed each being with the knowledge of good and evil; his name and deeds have been recorded in our sacred writings, and, while reading of his great
