Russian/European?
The diary enter later explains how Notovitch would have been seen as a 'European' to the monks.

Diary Entry Clue

We have obtained from Dr. Fida Hassnain a copy of the English translation of portions of the German Mission Diary. View them here

The photo of the pages of the diary was made in 1958 by the journalist Mrs. Amlabai Ketkar. Mrs. Ketkar brought the photograph from the Moravian Mission house in Leh/Ladakh, got it translated into English, and furnished copies, along with her comments, to Mr. Aziz Kashmiri.

Notovitch - Was he Really There?

There are those that say Notovitch never visited Hemis and that the St Issa scrolls do not exist, yet the following diary entry is a powerful vindication of the account of Notovitch:

"When I visited the Lamasery [Monastery] at Hemis, and together with the Lama Ishe Tundup and Mr. Stobden interviewed the 'Manager' (The young head Lama being in Tibet studying), the other Lamas who also were present belonging to the Monastery immediately said that their older monks did remember an Englishmen being injured and brought to their Monastery and that some MSS [manuscripts] were shown to him."

This account was given in the 'PS' section of a diary entry for the 'Moravian Mission' who had in the rest of the entry tried to discredit and write of the St Issa scroll.

This translated diary entry is now well known and documented in several books on Jesus in India.

In addition Dr Fida Hassnain during his own enquiries in to the scrolls spoke to people at the monastry who talked about both Notovitch's visit and the scrolls. So was he really there? The anwers appears to be a resounding Yes.

Introduction | The Discovery | Was he there? | Hemis Visits

Jesus the Buddhist?
"We also respect the one whom you recognize as Son of the one God. The spirit of Buddha was indeed incarnate in the sacred person of Issa"

- Buddhist Monk, Hemis