READS LlKE A DETECTIVE THRILLER! It picks you up and never lets go of you..." -- JESUS STEARN, best-selling author of Edgar Cayce -- The Sleeping Prophet Well-written and provocative. The research was not only thorough and accurate but very, very careful." -- ROBERT S. RAVICZ, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology, California State University, Northridge ANCIENT TEXTS REVEAL THAT JESUS SPENT l7 YEARS IN THE ORIENT They say that from age thirteen to age twenty-nine he traveled to India, Nepal, Ladakh and Tibet as both student and teacher. For the first time, Elizabeth Clare Prophet brings together the testimony of four eyewitnesses -- and three variant translations -- of these remarkable documents. She tells the intriguing story of how Russian journalist Nicolas Notovitch discovered the manuscripts in 1887 in a monastery in Ladakh. Critics "proved" they did not exist -- then three distinguished scholars and educators rediscovered them in this century. Now you can read for yourself what Jesus said and did prior to his Palestinian mission. The discoveries of Notovitch, Abhedananda, Roerich and Caspari on the 17 years Jesus spent traveling in the Orient.