Missing Youth
Where was Jesus between the ages of 12 and 30? There is no record of him in the Gospels during this time.

Nicholas Notovitch
Nicholas Notovitch was the most famous person to write about Jesus' possible travels to India during his youth.

These writings were based upon a scroll he was shown whilst at a monastry in Hemis. The document known as the St Issa Scroll seemed to talk of Jesus' life during his youth teaching and preaching in India.

Swami Abhedananda
Swami Abhedananda (1866-1939) was a disciple of Swami Ramakrishna (1836-1886). There are critics who claim that Nicholas Notovitch never made the trip to the Hemis Monastery, never found any manuscripts, and that no one at the Hemis Monastery had ever heard of him.

Swami Abhedananda read Notovitch's account, and in 1922 he decided to travel to the Hemis Monastery himself to attempt to verify whether or not documents actually existed that documented the sojourn of Jesus Christ in India before the crucifixion.

In 1929, the Swami published an account of his journey under title, Kashmir O Tibbate. The Swami claimed that he personally handled the ancient manuscripts, and, with the help of a lama that was attending to him, produced his own, independent translation of the documents.

The lama who was acting as the Swami's guide took a manuscript from the shelf and displayed it to the Swami. He told him that it was an exact translation of the original manuscript which was lying in the monastery of Marbour near Lhasa. The original manuscript, he explained, was in the Pali language, while the manuscript that was preserved at Hemis (the one Nicolas Notovitch claimed to have seen, and that the Swami had later been shown in 1922) was written in the Tibetan language. It is said to consist of fourteen chapters and two hundred twenty-four couplets called slokas.

Verification of Notovtich | Kashmir O Tibbate