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who enjoy mystifying inquisitive travelers, and that M. Notovitch fell far too easy a victim to their jokes." Müller then wrote to the head lama at Hemis
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The lamas also told Swami that after his resurrection, Christ secretly came to
Kashmir and lived in a monastery surrounded by many disciples. The original manuscript in Pali was prepared "three or four years" after Christ's death, on the basis of reports by local Tibetans and the accounts from
714:(2010) Vol. 23, Article 5.:"Müller then wrote to the chief lama st Hemis and received the reply that no Westerner had visited there in the past fifteen years nor was the monastery in possession of any documents having to do with the story Notovitch had made public in his famous book" ... "
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Notovich's accounts were quickly exposed as fabrications, and that to date no one else had even glimpsed the alleged documents. Notovich initially defended his story, but upon further scrutiny allegedly confessed to fabricating the evidence. Kashmiri writer
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took it upon himself to make the journey to the Hemis monistry to conduct a personal interview with the same head monk. What
Douglas learned there concurred with what Mueller had learned: Notovitch had never been
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