Nicolas Notovitch was a Russian aristocrat Cossack officer spy and journalist known for his contention that during the years of Jesus Christ's life missing from the Bible he followed traveling merchants abroad into India and the Hemis Monastery in Ladakh Nepal where he studied Buddhism. While recovering from a broken leg at the at the monastery of Himis Notovich discovered the text to The Life of Issa and realized that it recounted the lost years of Jesus. This controversial book shows where many of Jesus' beliefs comes from while at the same time showing that Jesus was already well on his way to his fundamental beliefs at a very young age.