Kalachakra ^[1] thangka from Sera Monastery (private collection).

In Tibetan Buddhist tradition, Shambhala (also spelled Shambala or Shamballa) is a mystical kingdom hidden somewhere beyond the snowpeaks of the Himalayas. It is mentioned in various ancient texts, including the Kalachakra Tantra^[2] and the ancient texts of the Zhang Zhung culture which pre-dated Tibetan Buddhism in western Tibet. The Bön^[3] scriptures speak of a closely-related land called Olmolungring. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 598 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (1302 × 1305 pixel, file size: 505 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Author: Kosi Gramatikoff, Kalachakra thangka painted in Sera Monastery, Tibet, Jul. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 598 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (1302 × 1305 pixel, file size: 505 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Author: Kosi Gramatikoff, Kalachakra thangka painted in Sera Monastery, Tibet, Jul. ... A Thangka is a painted or embroidered Tibetan banner which was hung in a monastery or a family altar and carried by lamas in ceremonial processions. ... Sera Monastery is one of the great three Gelukpa university monasteries of Tibet. ... Tibetan Buddhism is the body of religious Buddhist doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet, the Himalayan region (including northern Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and Ladakh), Mongolia, Buryatia, Tuva and Kalmykia (Russia), and northeastern China (Manchuria: Heilongjiang, Jilin). ... For the movie Himalaya, see Himalaya (film). ... Kālacakra (Sanskrit कालचक्र; Tibetan དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ dus kyi khor lo) is a term used in Tantric Buddhism that means time-wheel or time-cycles. It refers both to a Tantric deity (Tib. ... Zhang Zhung culture is a culture of western and northwestern Tibet which pre-dated Tibetan Buddhism and is best known as the source of the Bön religion. ... This article is about historical/cultural Tibet. ... Bön[1] (Tibetan: བོན་; Wylie: bon; Lhasa dialect IPA: [) is the oldest spiritual tradition of Tibet. ...

Shambhala in the Buddhist Kalachakra teachings

Rigdan Tagpa or Manjushrí Kírti, King of Shambhala

Shambhala (Tib. bde 'byung) is a Sanskrit term meaning "place of peace/tranquility/happiness". Shakyamuni Buddha is said to have taught the Kalachakra tantra on request of King Suchandra of Shambhala; the teachings are also said to be preserved there. Shambhala is believed to be a society where all the inhabitants are enlightened, actually a Buddhist "Pure Land", centered by a capital city called Kalapa. An alternative view associates Shambhala with the real empire of Sriwijaya where Buddhist master Atisha studied under Dharmakirti from whom he received the Kalachakra initiation. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 372 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1234 × 1989 pixel, file size: 226 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Image taken from a publication by Sarat Chandra Das (1849-1917), Contributions on Tibet, in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 372 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1234 × 1989 pixel, file size: 226 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Image taken from a publication by Sarat Chandra Das (1849-1917), Contributions on Tibet, in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol. ... The Wylie transliteration scheme is a method for transliterating the Tibetan script using the keys on a typical English language typewriter. ... Sanskrit ( , for short ) is a classical language of India, a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism, and one of the 23 official languages of India. ... Image:StandngBuddha. ... Kālacakra (Sanskrit कालचक्र; Tibetan དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ dus kyi khor lo) is a term used in Tantric Buddhism that means time-wheel or time-cycles. It refers both to a Tantric deity (Tib. ... The Sri Yantra This article is an overview of Tantra and an in-depth look at the Tantra of Hinduism. ... According to Indian and Tibetan legend, King Suchandra (Tib. ... The Buddha Amitabha, 13th century, Kamakura, Japan. ... For the capital city of Indonesia, see Jakarta. ... Map of Southeast Asia at end of 12th century. ... Atiśa Dipamkara Shrijnana (Bangla: অতীশ দীপঙ্কর শ্রীজ্ঞান) (982 - 1054 CE) was a Buddhist teacher who reintroduced Buddhism into Tibet after King Langdharma had nearly destroyed it. ... Dharmakirti (circa 7th century), was an Indian scholar and one of the Buddhist founders of Indian philosophical logic. ...

Shambhala is ruled over by a line of Kalki Kings (Tib. Rigden), a monarch who upholds the integrity of the Kalachakra tantra. The Kalachakra prophesizes that when the world declines into war and greed, and all is lost, the twenty-fifth Kalki king will emerge from Shambhala with a huge army to vanquish "Dark Forces" and usher in a worldwide Golden Age. Using calculations from the Kalachakra Tantra, scholars such as Alex Berzin (see his website) put this date at 2424 AD. In Hindu traditions, Kalki (Sanskrit: कल्कि; also rendered by some as Kalkin and Kalaki) is the tenth and final Maha Avatara (great incarnation) of Vishnu the Preserver, who will come to end the Kali Yuga, (The Age of Darkness and Destruction). ... Kālacakra (Sanskrit कालचक्र; Tibetan དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ dus kyi khor lo) is a term used in Tantric Buddhism that means time-wheel or time-cycles. It refers both to a Tantric deity (Tib. ... The Sri Yantra This article is an overview of Tantra and an in-depth look at the Tantra of Hinduism. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Rigdan Tagpa or Manjushrí Kírti is said to have been born in 159 BCE and ruled over a kingdom of 300,510 followers of the Mlechha (Yavana or "western") religion, some of whom worshiped the sun. He is said to have expelled all the heretics from his dominions but later, after hearing their petitions, allowed them to return. For their benefit, and the benefit of all living beings, he explained the Kalachakra teachings. In 59 BCE he abdicated his throne to his son, Puṇdaŕika, and died soon afterwards, entering the Sambhoga-káya of Buddhahood.^[4] This page may meet Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... Yona, Yonaka or Yavana is a Pali word used in ancient India to designate Greeks. ...

As with many concepts in the Kalachakra Tantra, the idea of Shambhala is said to have an "outer," "inner,' and "alternative" meaning. The outer meaning understands Shambhala to exist as a physical place, although only individuals with the appropriate karma can reach it and experience it as such. As His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama noted during the 1985 Kalachakra initiation in Bodhgaya, Shambhala is not an ordinary country: "Although those with special affiliation may actually be able to go there through their karmic connection, nevertheless it is not a physical place that we can actually find. We can only say that it is a pure land, a pure land in the human realm. And unless one has the merit and the actual karmic association, one cannot actually arrive there." For other uses, see Karma (disambiguation). ... The 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso (1876-1933). ...

There are various ideas about where this society is located, but it is often placed in central Asia, north or west of Tibet. The inner and alternative meanings refer to more subtle understandings of what Shambhala represents in terms of one's own body and mind (inner), and the meditation practice (alternative). These two types of symbolic explanations are generally passed on orally from teacher to student.

Serious modern scholarship has now thrown new light on the Kingdom of Shambhala as depicted in the Kalachakra Tantra, such as that of Helmut Hoffman that says clearly that "The first masters of the tradition disguised themselves with pseudonyms, so the Indian oral traditions recorded by the Tibetans contain a mass of contradictions." The historical chronologies thus also are contradictory and imprecise. Kālacakra (Sanskrit कालचक्र; Tibetan དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ dus kyi khor lo) is a term used in Tantric Buddhism that means time-wheel or time-cycles. It refers both to a Tantric deity (Tib. ...

The Shambhala of Chogyam Trungpa

Although Chogyam Trungpa, founder of Shambhala International, came out of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, in his teachings Shambhala Vision has its own independent basis in human wisdom that does not belong to East or West or any one culture or religion ^[5]. Shambhala kingdom is seen as enlightened society that people of all faiths can aspire to and actually realize. The path to this is provocatively described as the practice of warriorship — meeting fear and transcending aggression, and of secular sacredness — joining the wisdom of the past and one's own culture with the present in nowness. Chögyam Trungpa (1939 - April 4, 1987) was a Buddhist meditation master, scholar, teacher and artist. ... Shambhala International is a worldwide network of urban Buddhist meditation centers, retreat centers, monasteries, a university, and other enterprises, founded by the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (XI Trungpa Tulku) under the name Vajradhatu. ... Tibetan Buddhism is the body of religious Buddhist doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet, the Himalayan region (including northern Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and Ladakh), Mongolia, Buryatia, Tuva and Kalmykia (Russia), and northeastern China (Manchuria: Heilongjiang, Jilin). ... In politics, a country (or in some cases, a group of countries) over which a king or queen reigns, is a kingdom, see: monarchy. ... Enlightenment (or brightening) broadly means the acquisition of new wisdom or understanding enabling clarity of perception. ... Drawing of a Thracian peltast of 400 BC A warrior is a person habitually engaged in warfare. ... This article concerns secularity, that is, being secular, in various senses. ... In various religions, sacred (from Latin, sacrum, sacrifice) or holy, objects, places or concepts are believed by followers to be intimately connected with the supernatural, or divinity, and are thus greatly revered. ...

Trungpa's Shambhala teachings have inspired numerous educational, artistic, and spiritual institutions, including Naropa University, Shambhala Training, Miksang photography, The Shambhala School, Shambhala Institute, Shambhala Prison Community, Peacemaker Institute, and many others. Naropa University is a private, liberal arts university in Boulder, Colorado, which was founded in 1974 by Chögyam Trungpa. ... Shambhala Training is a secular approach to meditation developed by the late Vidyadhara Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and his students. ... Miksang is a Tibetan word meaning Good Eye and represents a form of contemplative photography based on the Dharma Art teachings of Chögyam Trungpa, in which the eye is in synchronisation with the contemplative mind. ... The Shambhala School is a non-denominational private school in Halifax, Nova Scotia. ...

The Shambhalas of the Zhang Zhung and the Mongols

Ancient Zhang Zhung texts identify Shambhala with the Sutlej Valley in Himachal Pradesh. Mongolians identify Shambala with certain valleys of southern Siberia. Zhang Zhung culture is a culture of western and northwestern Tibet which pre-dated Tibetan Buddhism and is best known as the source of the Bön religion. ... The Sutlej is a river that flows through Northern India, with its source in Tibet. ... , Himachal Pradesh   (Panjabi: ਹਿਮਾਚਲ ਪਰਦੇਸ਼,(Hindi: हिमाचल प्रदेश, IPA: ) is a state in the north-west of India. ... “Siberian” redirects here. ...

Western fascination with Shambhala

The Western fascination with Shambhala has often been based upon fragmented accounts of the Kalachakra tradition, or outright fabrications. Tibet was largely closed to outsiders until very recently, and so what information was available about the tradition of Shambhala was haphazard at best^[6].

The first information that reached western civilization about Shambhala came from the Portuguese explorer Estêvão Cacella in the early 17th century. The Hungarian scholar Alexander Csoma de Köros, writing in 1833, provided the first geographic account of 'a fabulous country in the north...situated between 45' and 50' north latitude'. Estêvão Cacella was a portuguese jesuit missionaire. ...

During the 19th century, Theosophical Society founder HP Blavatsky alluded to the Shambhala myth, giving it currency for Western occult enthusiasts. HP Blavatsky compiled a fifteen hundred page two volume synthesis of Eastern wisdom, evolutionary science and races - The Secret Doctrine. The Secret Doctrine made an especially powerful impression in Germany, refueling the 'theories' of the Third Reich about the Aryan master Race.^{[citation needed]} Those 'theories' preoccupied two major figures in the Third Reich - Heinrich Himmler and Rudolf Hess leading to the German Tibet expeditions (1930, 1934-5, 1938-9)^[7]. Later esoteric writers further emphasized and elaborated on the concept of a hidden land inhabited by a hidden mystic brotherhood whose members labor for the good of humanity.^{[citation needed]} Theosophy, literally god-wisdom (Greek: θεοσοφία theosophia), designates several bodies of ideas. ... Helena Blavatsky Helena Petrovna Hahn (also Hélène) (July 31, 1831 (O.S.) (August 12, 1831 (N.S.)) - May 8, 1891 London, England), better known as Helena Blavatsky or Madame Blavatsky was the founder of Theosophy. ... The word occult comes from the Latin occultus (clandestine, hidden, secret), referring to knowledge of the hidden.[1] In the medical sense it is used commonly to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e. ... Helena Blavatsky Helena Petrovna Hahn (also Hélène) (July 31, 1831 (O.S.) (August 12, 1831 (N.S.)) - May 8, 1891 London, England), better known as Helena Blavatsky or Madame Blavatsky was the founder of Theosophy. ... The Secret Doctrine, the Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy, a book originally published as two volumes in 1888, is Helena P. Blavatskys magnum opus. ... Look up Esotericism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

The mystic Nicholas Roerich^[8] and the Soviet agent Yakov Blumkin led two Tibetan expeditions to discover Shambhala, in 1926 and 1928. Guests from Overseas, 1899 (Varangians in Russia) Longships Are Built in the Land of the Slavs (1903) Nicholas Roerich, (October 9, 1874 - December 13, 1947) also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh (Russian: Николай Константинович Рёрих), was a Russian painter and spiritual teacher. ... Yakov Blumkin Yakov Grigorevich Blumkin (Russian: ; 1898 – 3 November 1929) was a Left Socialist-Revolutionary, assassin, Bolshevik, Checka agent, GPU spy, Trotskyist, and adventurer. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Western esoteric traditions

Madame Blavatsky, who claimed to be in contact with a Great White Lodge of Himalayan Adepts, mentions Shambhala in several places without giving it especially great emphasis. (The Mahatmas, we are told, are also active around Shigatse and Luxor.) Blavatsky's Shambhala, like the headquarters of the Great White Lodge, is a physical location on our earth, albeit one which can only be penetrated by a worthy aspirant.^{[citation needed]} // Esoteric Christianity In the teaching of the Master Beinsa Douno (Peter Deunov), the Universal White Brotherhood is the equivalent of the Angelic hierarchy in traditional Christianity: Seraphims - Brothers of Love; Cherubims - Brothers of Harmony; Thrones - Brothers of Will; Dominions - Brothers of intelligence and joy; Virtues - Brothers of movement and growth... Shigatse (Tibetan: གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་; Wylie transliteration: Gzhis-ka-rtse; Modified Wiley: gzhi-ka-rtse; pinyin (Tibetan): Xigazê; Chinese: 日喀则; pinyin: Rìkāzé, Zhigatse [Zhi-ga-tse], and Xigatse) is the second largest city in Tibet with a population of 80,000. ... Luxor on Nile, at Luxor Temple with mosque. ...

Later esoteric writers like Alice Bailey (the Arcane School) and the Agni Yoga of Nicholas and Helena Roerich do emphasize Shambhala. Bailey transformed it into a kind of extradimensional or spiritual reality on the etheric plane. The Roerichs see its existence as both spiritual and physical.^{[citation needed]} Alice A. Bailey Shown here on the cover of a Danish translation of her autobiography, her work has been translated into over 50 languages. ... Agni Yoga, also called the Teaching of Living Ethics or (in Russian) the Zhivaya Etica, is an esoteric teaching founded by the Russian painter Nicholas Roerich (Nikolai Konstantinovitch Rerikh) and his highly adept empathic wife, Helena Roerich (Elena Ivanovna Rerikh). ... Guests from Overseas, 1899 (Varangians in Russia) Longships Are Built in the Land of the Slavs (1903) Nicholas Roerich, (October 9, 1874 - December 13, 1947) also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh (Russian: Николай Константинович Рёрих), was a Russian painter and spiritual teacher. ... Helena Roerich (1879-1954) was born in Russia on February 12, 1879. ... The etheric plane or etheric region is one of the planes of existence, or more specifically a subplane or planes, in Theosophy and New Age thought. ...

Related "hidden land" speculations surrounding the underground kingdom of Agartha led some early twentieth-century occultists (especially those associated with Nazi or Neo-Nazi occultism) to view Shambhala as a source of negative manipulation by an evil (or amoral) conspiracy. Nevertheless, the predominant theme is one of light and hope, as evidenced by James Redfield's and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's respective books by that name.^{[citation needed]} This article belongs in one or more categories. ... National Socialism redirects here. ... The terms Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism refer to any social or political movement to revive Nazism or Fascism, respectively, and postdates the Second World War. ... For other uses of this term, see occult (disambiguation). ... James Redfield (b. ... Chögyam Trungpa (1939 - April 4, 1987) was a Buddhist meditation master, scholar, teacher and artist. ...

Shambhala in popular culture

Movies

• In the 2004 adventure movie Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, the two main characters journey to the city of Shambhala, hidden deep in the Himalayas.

• The Three Dog Night song "Shambala" was featured in the Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), starring Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin and Marisa Tomei.

• In the Fullmetal Alchemist movie Conqueror of Shamballa, the plot revolves around the Thule Society's desire to open a portal to "Shamballa," which is instead said to be underground.

• In the 1937 film "Lost Horizon" where several passengers are taken on a plane to a utopian society that is surrounded by tall mountains where people age very slowly, although it is referred to as Shangri-La.

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Television

• The series Kung Fu: The Legend Continues includes a visit to Shambhala, and Kwai-Chang Caine, the lead character, is a "Shambhala master".
• The animation Full Metal Alchemist depicts shamballa as the place where alchemy is present, coexisting with technology.

• Shambhala is featured in the 1997 episode The Bangalore Falcon in The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest.

• The song "Shambala" by Three Dog Night is featured in the TV series Lost, episode 310 (Trisha Tanaka is Dead) as Hurley and Charlie confront their fear of death that is weighing them down. The song is also featured in episode 320 (The Man Behind The Curtain.

• Shambhala is featured in an episode of A Haunting on the Discovery Channel.

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Games

• In the computer game "Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine" Shambala is an old and nearly empty monastery in Kazakhstan.

• In the role-playing game WitchCraft, Shambala is one of the Dream Realms in Hod.

• In the video game "Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer", Shambala is the title of one of the goals in the .

• In the computer game "Beyond Atlantis", Shambhala is the place one is trying to reach, by gathering the Atlantian road.

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Books & Magazines

• The myths of Shambhala were part of the inspiration for the story of Shangri-La told in the popular novel Lost Horizon, and thus some people incorrectly assume that Shambhala is synonymous with Shangri-La.

• The Secret of Shambhala: The Search for the Eleventh Insight by James Redfield. In this novel Redfield describes a search for Shangri-La or Shambala where all structures, tools, and objects are made up of energy fields.

• Shambhala Sun, a magazine inspired by the vision of Shambhala.

• Shambhala is a point of destination for several characters in Thomas Pynchon's novel Against the Day.

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Comics

• The Shadow, published by DC Comics, says The Shadow learned his apparently superhuman skills while visiting Shambhala. In Howard Chaykin's 1985 miniseries, The Shadow: Blood & Justice, Kent Allard (the Shadow) defends Shambhala from a plot by the real Lamont Cranston.

• Also used by Prometheus, the "anti-Batman" villain created by Grant Morrison in his JLA run, it was considered the source of all evil and he was trying to discover it.

• Marvel Comics published a graphic novel in 1986 called Dr. Strange: Into Shambhala. The eponymous hero sought "Shambhala" as a metaphor for greater enlightenment.

• In the 2000 AD Judge Dredd comic Shamballa, Judge Anderson and a cohort of scientists and other Judges from around the world travel to Shambhala, deep underground beneath the Himalayas, searching for the cause and solution to cataclysmic events worldwide.

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Music

• Shambhala (music festival) is a yearly music festival held in British Columbia, Canada for five days.
• Three Dog Night had a multi-platinum hit song called "Shambala". It was written by Sufi poet Daniel Moore and originally recorded by songwriter B.W. Stevenson.
• The Rockapella musical group performed a cover of the above song, on their Smilin and Primer albums.
• The Beastie Boys have a song called "Shambala", on their Ill Communication album, which features samples of monks, presumably Buddhist, chanting, and segues into "Bodhisattva Vow", an avowed acceptance of the Buddhist lifestyle in rap.
• The The Tibetan Song and Dance Troupe of Diqing has an album titled "Shambala is not far away."
• The black metal band Alpha Drone have a song called Shambala Serrano.
• The rap groups Jedi Mind Tricks and The Lost Children of Babylon often referenced Shambala in their early recordings.
• Afrika Bambaataa & WestBam have a song "Agharta - The City of Shamballa"
• Donovan included a song called "Shambhala" on his 2004 album Beat Cafe.
• The first track of the album "Tai Chi Too" from Oliver Shanti & Friends is called "Journey To Shambala."
• Matthew Sweet has a track called "The Big Cats of Shambala" on his Living Things CD.

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Software

The Shambhala codebase and module API, introduced to the Apache HTTP Server in 1995, was the foundation for the Apache 1.0 release. The Apache HTTP Server, commonly referred to simply as Apache, is a web server notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web. ...

See also

• Hyperborea - A mythical Greek land.
• Kalachakra - The Vajrayana Buddhist body of scripture which introduced Shambhala.
• Kings of Shambhala - A summary of the seven Dharmarajas and twenty-five Kulika Kings.
• Sanat Kumara - The deity believed by Theosophists to be the god of our planet is said to live in a city called Shambala on the etheric plane.
• In the movie, Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa, the Nazis believe that Edward Elric's homeland Amestris, which is in another world, is the legendary Shamballa.
• White Magic (Alice A. Bailey) - White Magic adepts said to be able to spiritually travel to the etheric city of Shambala.

==Footnotes For other uses, see Hyperborea (disambiguation). ... Kālacakra (Sanskrit कालचक्र; Tibetan དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་ dus kyi khor lo) is a term used in Tantric Buddhism that means time-wheel or time-cycles. It refers both to a Tantric deity (Tib. ... According to Buddhist legend, the first notable king of Shambhala, King Suchandra (or Chandrabhadra, Tib. ... According to the metaphysical system of Theosophy, as well as the teachings derived from it, i. ... The etheric plane or etheric region is one of the planes of existence, or more specifically a subplane or planes, in Theosophy and New Age thought. ... Flag of Amestris military government Amestris is the nation-state that serves as the principal setting of the anime and manga series Fullmetal Alchemist. ... White Magic is a system of Magick developed by Alice A. Bailey and promulgated in her book 1934 book A Treatise on White Magic. ...

1. ^ Tibetan Mandala, Art and Practice, The wheel of time ed. by Sylvie Crossman and Jean-Pierre Barou, 2004. pp.20-26
2. ^ The Tantra by Victor M. Fic, Abhinav Publications, 2003, p.49.
3. ^ The Bon Religion of Tibet by Per Kavǣrne, Shambhala, 1996
4. ^ Das, Sarat Chandra (1882). Contributions on the Religion and History of Tibet. First published in: Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. LI. Reprint: Manjushri Publishing House, Delhi. 1970, pp. 81-82.
5. ^ Shambhala, The Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chögyam Trungpa, Shambhala, 1988
6. ^ Prisoners of Shangri~La, Tibetan Buddhism and the West by Donald S Lopez Jr, The University of Chicago Press, 1998
7. ^ Himmler's Crusade by Christopher Hale, John Wiley & Sons., Inc., 2003
8. ^ Roerich East & West by Kenneth Archer, Parkstone Press 1999, p.94

References

• Berzin, Alexander (2003). The Berzin Archives. Mistaken Foreign Myths about Shambhala.
• Martin, Dean. (1999). "'Ol-mo-lung-ring, the Original Holy Place." In: Sacred Spaces and Powerful Places In Tibetan Culture: A Collection of Essays. (1999) Edited by Toni Huber, pp. 125-153. The Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala, H.P., India. ISBN 81-86470-22-0.
• Bernbaum, Edwin. (1980). The Way to Shambhala: A Search for the Mythical Kingdom Beyond the Himalayas. Reprint: (1989) St. Martin's Press, New York. ISBN 0-87477-518-3.
• Jeffrey, Jason. Mystery of Shambhala in New Dawn, No. 72 (May-June 2002).
• Trungpa, Chogyam. Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior. Shambhala Publications. ISBN 0-87773-264-7
• Le Page, Victoria. [1] Shambhala: The Fascinating Truth behind the Myth of Shangri-La. Quest ISBN 0-8356-0750-X

Chögyam Trungpa (1939 - April 4, 1987) was a Buddhist meditation master, scholar, teacher and artist. ...

Further Reading

• Allen, Charles. (1999). The Search for Shangri-La: A Journey into Tibetan History. Little, Brown and Company. Reprint: Abacus, London. 2000. ISBN 0-349-111421.
• Martin, Dean. (1999). "'Ol-mo-lung-ring, the Original Holy Place." In: Sacred Spaces and Powerful Places In Tibetan Culture: A Collection of Essays. (1999) Edited by Toni Huber, pp. 125-153. The Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala, H.P., India. ISBN 81-86470-22-0.

Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the novel, Lost Horizon, written by British writer James Hilton in 1933. ...

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