Retreat in the Heart of Darjeeling

What would it have been like to know Jesus when he was a teenager?  And where would you have to go to find him?  That’s what I explore in my first historial novel, “ISSA–The Greatest Story Never Told.”

The years of Jesus as a teen are what many refer to as “the lost years” because there is no accounting for them in the Bible.  The last we read of Jesus in the New Testament is when he is twelve and discoursing in the Temple.  Then the Gospels are silent.

In the late 1800s, however, a Russian explorer–Nicholas Notovich–published a translation of a mysterious Buddhist manuscript that said Jesus was in India during those years.  The manuscript details his route and some of his experiences.  It says that he was known as Saint Issa and that he went East to study and to teach.

If true, I think the hypothesis that Jesus was in India and the Himalayas has many implications for our world view.  These I hope to explore with you and I invite you to begin with “ISSA–The Greatest Story Never Told.”