Norbert Klatt (24 December 1949 – 1 October 2015) was a German scholar of Buddhism and Christianity and publisher; he was the founder of Norbert Klatt Verlag,

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, t ...

. Klatt proposed Buddhist influence on some New Testament narratives (1982), particularly the conversion of Kassapa (

Mahavagga Khandhaka is the second book of the Theravadin '' Vinaya Pitaka'' and includes the following two volumes: * Mahāvagga: includes accounts of Gautama Buddha's and the ten principal disciples' awakenings, as well as rules for uposatha days and mon ...

1.20.16) on

Jesus walking on the water Jesus walking on the water, or on the sea, is depicted as one of the miracles of Jesus recounted in the New Testament. There are accounts of this event in three Gospels—Matthew, Mark, and John—but it is not included in the Gospel of Luke. This ...

(Mark 6). From 1986 Klatt made investigations into the ''Life of Issa'' forgery of

Nicolas Notovitch Shulim or Nikolai Aleksandrovich Notovich (russian: Николай Александрович Нотович) (August 13, 1858 – after 1916), known in the West as Nicolas Notovitch, was a Crimean Jewish adventurer who claimed to be a Russian ar ...

expanding his researches to include

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Mirzā Ghulām Ahmad (13 February 1835 – 26 May 1908) was an Indian religious leader and the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam. He claimed to have been divinely appointed as the promised Messiah and Mahdi—which is the metaphoric ...

's claims of

Jesus in India The unknown years of Jesus (also called his silent years, lost years, or missing years) generally refers to the period of Jesus's life between his childhood and the beginning of his ministry, a period not described in the New Testament. The " ...

in 1988. Klatt concluded that the origin of Notovitch's story was "to be sought in Paris rather than India, Tibet or Ladakh," but left open the possibility that Notovitch had genuinely found Tibetan texts relating to Jesus misidentifying Bible portions that

Heinrich August Jäschke Heinrich August Jäschke (17 May 1817 in Herrnhut – 24 September 1883) was a German Tibetologist missionary and Bible translator. From 1857 to 1868 he was missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine (the Moravian Church or Moravian Brethren) in ...

had translated into Tibetan in 1857–1868, decades before Notovitch's visit to Tibet.Mark Bothe ''Die "Jesus-in-Indien-Legende" - Eine alternative Jesus-Erzählung?'' 2011 Page 75 "Dies könne, so Klatt, bedeuten, dass Notovitch auf Bibelverse gestoßen sei, die der Herrenhuter Missionar Heinrich August Jäschke zuvor von 1857–1868 ins Tibetische übersetzt hatte.238 Die Verbindung dieser beiden JiIL Varianten lässt .."

Works

Books

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (11 May 1752 – 22 January 1840) was a German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist. He is considered to be a main founder of zoology and anthropology as comparative, scientific disciplines. He wa ...

- editor of 5 volumes of Blumenbach Correspondence * Literarkritische Beiträge zum Problem christlich-buddhistischer Parallelen - Köln : Brill, 1982 * Lebte Jesus in Indien? - Göttingen : Wallstein-Verlag, 1988 * Jesu und Buddhas Wasserwandel - Göttingen : Klatt, 1990 (revision of 1982) * Die Bosheit der Sexualität - Göttingen : Klatt, 1991 * Der Nachlass von Wilhelm Hübbe-Schleiden in der Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen - Göttingen : Klatt, 1996 * Verflucht, versklavt, verketzert Göttingen : Klatt, 1998 * Zur Verwendung des Sektenbegriffs in Religion, Politik und Wirtschaft - Göttingen : Klatt, 1999 * Die Rivalin Gottes Göttingen : Klatt, 2000 * Zur Instrumentalisierung der "Homosexualität" im Alten und Neuen Testament, Göttingen : Klatt, 2006

Articles

* N. Klatt, 'Jesus in Indien', in Orientierungen und Berichte 13, 1986 (Evgl. Zentralstelle fur Weltanschauungsfragen).

References

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