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July 05, 2023

This article is about the mythical kingdom in Tibetan Buddhism. For other uses, see Shambala (disambiguation).
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In Tibetan Buddhist tradition, Shambhala (Sanskrit: शम्भल Śambhala,[1] also spelled Shambala or Shamballa; Tibetan: བདེ་འབྱུང, Wylie: Bde'byung; Chinese: 香巴拉; pinyin: Xiāngbālā) is a spiritual kingdom. Shambhala is mentioned in the Kalachakra Tantra.[2][3] The Bon scriptures speak of a closely related land called Tagzig Olmo Lung Ring.[4]

The Sanskrit name is taken from the name of a city mentioned in the Hindu Puranas, probably in reference to Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh.[1] The mythological relevance of the place originates with a prophecy in Vishnu Purana (4.24) according to which Shambhala will be the birthplace of Kalki, the next incarnation of Vishnu, who will usher in a new age (Satya Yuga);[1][5] and the prophesied ruling Kingdom of Maitreya, the future Buddha.[6]

Kalachakra tantra

Main article: Kalachakra
Further information: Kings of Shambhala

Shambhala is ruled by the future Buddha Maitreya.[6][7] The Shambhala narrative is found in the Kalachakra tantra, a text of the group of the Anuttarayoga Tantras. Kalachakra Buddhism was presumably introduced to Tibet still in the 11th century, the epoch of the Tibetan Kalachakra calendar. The oldest known teachers of Kalachakra are Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen (d. 1361) and Buton Rinchen Drub (d. 1364).

In the narrative, King Manjuśrīkīrti is said to have been born in 159 BC and ruled over a kingdom of 300,510 followers of the Mlechha religion, some of whom worshiped the Sun. He is said to have expelled 20,000 people from his domain who clung to Surya Samadhi (solar worship) rather than convert to Kalachakra (Wheel of Time) Buddhism. After realizing these were the wisest and best of his people and how much he was in need of them, he later asked them to return and some did. Those who did not return are said to have set up the city of Shambhala. Manjuśrīkīrti initiated the preaching of the Kalachakra teachings in order to try to convert those who returned and were still under his rule. In 59 BC he abdicated his throne to his son, Puṇḍārika, and died soon afterward, entering the Sambhogakaya of Buddhahood.[8][9]

 
Portrait of an Alti Himalian Shaman. Detail from "A Sorceress from Tungusy" 1812–1813 by: E. Karnejeff

The Kalachakra tantra prophesies that when the world declines into war and greed, and all is lost, the 25th Kalki king Maitreya will emerge from Shambhala,[6][7] with a huge army to vanquish Dark Forces and usher in a worldwide Golden Age. This final battle is prophesied for the year 2424 or 2425 (in the 3304th year after the death of Buddha). Thereafter, Buddhism would survive another 1,800 years.[10]

Western reception

Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism were largely unknown in the West prior to the beginning of the 20th century.[11] The name itself, however, was reported as early as the 17th century, by way of Estêvão Cacella, the Portuguese missionary who had heard about Shambhala (transcribed as Xembala), and thought it was another name for Cathay or China. Cacella in 1627 headed to Tashilhunpo, the seat of the Panchen Lama and, discovering his mistake, returned to India.[12]

The Hungarian scholar Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, writing in 1833, provided the first geographic account of "a fabulous country in the north...situated between 45' and 50' north latitude".[citation needed]

Theosophy

During the late 19th century, Theosophical Society co-founder Helena Blavatsky alluded to the Shambhala myth. Blavatsky, who claimed to be in contact with a Great White Lodge of Himalayan Adepts, mentions Shambhala in several places, but without giving it especially great emphasis.

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. Alice A. Bailey claims Shamballa (her spelling) is an extra-dimensional or spiritual reality on the astral plane, a spiritual centre where the governing deity of Earth, Sanat Kumara, dwells as the highest Avatar of the Planetary Logos of Earth, and is said to be an expression of the Will of God.[13]

Expeditions and location hypotheses

Nicholas and Helena Roerich led a 1924–1928 expedition aimed at Shambhala. They also believed that Belukha Mountain in the Altai Mountains was an entrance to Shambhala, a common belief in that region.[14]

Inspired by Theosophical lore and several visiting Mongol lamas, Gleb Bokii, the chief Bolshevik cryptographer and one of the bosses of the Soviet secret police, along with his writer friend Alexander Barchenko, embarked on a quest for Shambhala, in an attempt to merge Kalachakra-tantra and ideas of Communism in the 1920s. Among other things, in a secret laboratory affiliated with the secret police, Bokii and Barchenko experimented with Buddhist spiritual techniques to try to find a key for engineering perfect communist human beings.[15] They contemplated a special expedition to Inner Asia to retrieve the wisdom of Shambhala – the project fell through as a result of intrigues within the Soviet intelligence service, as well as rival efforts of the Soviet Foreign Commissariat that sent its own expedition to Tibet in 1924.

French Buddhist Alexandra David-Néel associated Shambhala with Balkh in present-day Afghanistan, also offering the Persian Sham-i-Bala, "elevated candle" as an etymology of its name.[16] In a similar vein, the Gurdjieffian J. G. Bennett published speculation that Shambalha was Shams-i-Balkh, a Bactrian sun temple.[17]

Hitler sent several expeditions to Tibet in the 1930s "to contact the Agartha and Shambala", supposedly part of Nazi esotericism.[18]

In popular culture

Shambhala may have been the inspiration for Shangri-La, a paradise on Earth hidden in a Tibetan valley, which features in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by British author James Hilton.[19]

In 1969, Shambhala Publications, a book publishing company, was founded by Samuel Bercholz[20] and Michael Fagan, in Berkeley, California.

Daniel Moore wrote the song "Shambala" that in 1973 was recorded by both B. W. Stevenson and Three Dog Night.

Shambhala appears as a mini-dungeon in the PC-98 game E.V.O.: The Theory of Evolution. The dungeon is a network of tunnels that act as the entrance to both Atlantis and Mu

Much of the plot of Thomas Pynchon's 2006 novel, Against the Day, revolves around Shambhala, with some characters seeking an actual city by that name, a site of unique and exploitable power, and others treating it as a great figure for the transcendent.

In 2009, the mythical city was depicted in the video game Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. The game follows treasure hunter Nathan Drake in search of the lost city.

Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa mainly takes place in an alternate version of Earth in 1923, specifically Germany. The parallel world that serves as the main setting in the Fullmetal Alchemist series is a secondary setting. Said parallel world is believed to be Shamballa by the movie's villains, a group of Nazis led by Dietlinde Eckhart (based on the historical Dietrich Eckart), who desire to open an inter-dimensional portal between the two worlds so as to harness Shamballa's technology to help Hitler take control of Germany.

Shambala also features in the 1996 Scrooge McDuck comic "The Treasure of the Ten Avatars" by Keno Don Rosa. In this comic, Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck, and his nephews discover Shambala and try to find its treasures.

In 2012, a trilogy named 'Sambhala' was published by a Bangladeshi writer.

In the 2016 movie Doctor Strange by Marvel Studios, 'shamballa' is used as the wifi password at Kamar-Taj, the place where Stephen Strange first learns to do magic.

The 2019 Indian animated film Little Singham Aur Shambhala Jhambhala features a villain named Shambhala who wants to become an Asura.

In Nintendo's 2019 tactical strategy game Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Shambhala exists as an extremely technologically advanced subterranean city of an ancient people called the Agarthans looking to overthrow and reclaim the surface. The player can visit and fight through Shambhala in chapters 20 and 21 in the Silver Snow and Verdant Wind routes, respectively.

In 2021, Canadian Experimental Soundscape artist "MU Simulacra" released a 12-minute track entitled "Shambhala" for his 24-hour acoustic epic Art as an Expression of Rta. The song sonically explores the inward journey of finding Shambhala as a non-spatial destination or dimension. Repetitive tones, melodies and loops that are purposely familiar yet ambiguous are utilized in order to demonstrate the effect of state of mind on interpretive processes.

See also

Citations

  1. ^ a b c Śambhala, also Sambhala, is the name of a town between the Rathaprā and Ganges rivers, identified by some with Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh. In the Puranas, it is named as the place where Kalki, the last incarnation of Vishnu, is to appear (Monier-Williams, Sanskrit-English Dictionary, 1899).
  2. ^ Hiltebeitel, Alf (1999). Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics. University of Chicago Press. pp. 217–218. ISBN 978-0-226-34050-0.
  3. ^ The Tantra by Victor M. Fic, Abhinav Publications, 2003, p.49.
  4. ^ The Bon Religion of Tibet by Per Kavǣrne, Shambhala, 1996
  5. ^ LePage, Victoria (1996). Shambhala: The Fascinating Truth Behind the Myth of Shangri-La. Quest Books. pp. 125–126. ISBN 978-0835607506.
  6. ^ a b c Arch. orient. Nakl. Ceskoslovenské akademie věd. 2003. pp. 254, 261. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  7. ^ a b Roerich, Nicholas (2003). Shambhala. Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd. p. 65. ISBN 978-81-7936-012-5. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  8. ^ Das, Sarat Chandra (1882). Contributions to the Religion and History of Tibet, in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. LI. Reprint: Manjushri Publishing House, Delhi. 1970, pp. 81–2.
  9. ^ Edwin Bernbaum "The Way to Shambhala: A Search for the Mythical Kingdom Beyond the Himalayas" 1980 & Albert Grünwedel "Der Weg nach Shambhala" 1915
  10. ^ Alexander Berzin, Taking the Kalachakra Initiation (1997), p. 33. Lubosh Belka, "The Shambhala Myth in Buryatia and Mongolia", in: Tomasz Gacek, Jadwiga Pstrusińska (eds.), Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2009), pp. 19-30 (p. 20f).
  11. ^ Lopez, Donald S. Jr. Prisoners of Shangri~La, Tibetan Buddhism and the West, The University of Chicago Press, 1998
  12. ^ Bernbaum, Edwin. (1980). The Way to Shambhala, pp. 18-19. Reprint: (1989). Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., Los Angeles. ISBN 0-87477-518-3.
  13. ^ Bailey, Alice A, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire 1932 Lucis Trust. 1925, p 753
  14. ^ Archer, Kenneth. Roerich East & West. Parkstone Press 1999, p.94
  15. ^ Znamenski (2011)
  16. ^ David-Néel, A. Les Nouvelles littéraires ;1954, p.1
  17. ^ Bennett, J.G: "Gurdjieff: Making a New World". Bennett notes Idries Shah as the source of the suggestion.
  18. ^ Childress, David Hatcher (1985). Lost Cities of China, Central Asia, and India: A Traveler's Guide. Lost cities series. Adventures Unlimited Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-0932813008. Hitler sent several expeditions to Tibet in the thirties, to contact the Agartha and Shambala, and apparently created quite strong ties with the Shambala [...].
  19. ^ Wood, Michael (17 February 2011). "BBC - History - Ancient History in depth: Shangri-La". BBC. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  20. ^ Midal, Fabrice, ed., Recalling Chögyam Trungpa (Boston, MA: Shambhala, 2005), ISBN 1-59030-207-9, p. 475

General references

  • Rock opera "Szambalia" ("Shambhala") (2014). Official premiere in Poland, Warsaw (24.06.2014)
  • Rock song "Halls of Shambala" by B. W. Stevenson, covered and popularized by the rock band Three Dog Night Shambala (song)
  • Berzin, Alexander (2003). Study Buddhism. 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.
  • Meyer, Karl Ernest and Brysac, Shareen Blair (2006) Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game And the Race for Empire in Central Asia ISBN 0-465-04576-6
  • 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 2008-05-17 at the Wayback Machine in New Dawn, No. 72 (May–June 2002).
  • Trungpa, Chogyam. Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior. Shambhala Publications. ISBN 0-87773-264-7
  • Znamenski, Andrei. (2011). Red Shambhala: Magic, Prophecy, and Geopolitics in the Heart of Asia. Quest Books, Wheaton, IL (2011) ISBN 978-0-8356-0891-6.
  • Dr. S. D'Montford. "Tibetan Buddhist Atrocities and Propaganda". Happy Medium Publishing. Sydney. 2004
  • Allen, Charles. (1999). The Search for Shangri-La: A Journey into Tibetan History. Little, Brown and Company. Reprint: Abacus, London. 2000. ISBN 0-349-11142-1.
  • Znamenski, Andrei. Red Shambhala: Magic, Prophecy, and Geopolitics in the Heart of Asia. Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8356-0891-6
  • Martin, Dan. (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.
  • Symmes, Patrick. (2007). "The Kingdom of the Lotus" in Outside, 30th Anniversary Special Edition, pp. 148–187. Mariah Media, Inc., Red Oak, Iowa.
  • Meurois, Daniel et Anne Givaudan (1987). Le Voyage a Shambhalla. Un pèlerinage vers soi. Ed. Le Passe-Monde.

External links

  •   Media related to Shambhala at Wikimedia Commons

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This article is about the mythical kingdom in Tibetan Buddhism For other uses see Shambala disambiguation This article contains Tibetan script Without proper rendering support you may see very small fonts misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Tibetan characters In Tibetan Buddhist tradition Shambhala Sanskrit शम भल Sambhala 1 also spelled Shambala or Shamballa Tibetan བད འབ ང Wylie Bde byung Chinese 香巴拉 pinyin Xiangbala is a spiritual kingdom Shambhala is mentioned in the Kalachakra Tantra 2 3 The Bon scriptures speak of a closely related land called Tagzig Olmo Lung Ring 4 The Sanskrit name is taken from the name of a city mentioned in the Hindu Puranas probably in reference to Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh 1 The mythological relevance of the place originates with a prophecy in Vishnu Purana 4 24 according to which Shambhala will be the birthplace of Kalki the next incarnation of Vishnu who will usher in a new age Satya Yuga 1 5 and the prophesied ruling Kingdom of Maitreya the future Buddha 6 Contents 1 Kalachakra tantra 2 Western reception 2 1 Theosophy 2 2 Expeditions and location hypotheses 2 3 In popular culture 3 See also 4 Citations 5 General references 6 External linksKalachakra tantra EditMain article Kalachakra Further information Kings of Shambhala Manjusrikirti King of Shambhala Shambhala is ruled by the future Buddha Maitreya 6 7 The Shambhala narrative is found in the Kalachakra tantra a text of the group of the Anuttarayoga Tantras Kalachakra Buddhism was presumably introduced to Tibet still in the 11th century the epoch of the Tibetan Kalachakra calendar The oldest known teachers of Kalachakra are Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen d 1361 and Buton Rinchen Drub d 1364 In the narrative King Manjusrikirti is said to have been born in 159 BC and ruled over a kingdom of 300 510 followers of the Mlechha religion some of whom worshiped the Sun He is said to have expelled 20 000 people from his domain who clung to Surya Samadhi solar worship rather than convert to Kalachakra Wheel of Time Buddhism After realizing these were the wisest and best of his people and how much he was in need of them he later asked them to return and some did Those who did not return are said to have set up the city of Shambhala Manjusrikirti initiated the preaching of the Kalachakra teachings in order to try to convert those who returned and were still under his rule In 59 BC he abdicated his throne to his son Puṇḍarika and died soon afterward entering the Sambhogakaya of Buddhahood 8 9 Portrait of an Alti Himalian Shaman Detail from A Sorceress from Tungusy 1812 1813 by E Karnejeff The Kalachakra tantra prophesies that when the world declines into war and greed and all is lost the 25th Kalki king Maitreya will emerge from Shambhala 6 7 with a huge army to vanquish Dark Forces and usher in a worldwide Golden Age This final battle is prophesied for the year 2424 or 2425 in the 3304th year after the death of Buddha Thereafter Buddhism would survive another 1 800 years 10 Western reception EditTibet and Tibetan Buddhism were largely unknown in the West prior to the beginning of the 20th century 11 The name itself however was reported as early as the 17th century by way of Estevao Cacella the Portuguese missionary who had heard about Shambhala transcribed as Xembala and thought it was another name for Cathay or China Cacella in 1627 headed to Tashilhunpo the seat of the Panchen Lama and discovering his mistake returned to India 12 The Hungarian scholar Sandor Korosi Csoma writing in 1833 provided the first geographic account of a fabulous country in the north situated between 45 and 50 north latitude citation needed Theosophy Edit During the late 19th century Theosophical Society co founder Helena Blavatsky alluded to the Shambhala myth Blavatsky who claimed to be in contact with a Great White Lodge of Himalayan Adepts mentions Shambhala in several places but without giving it especially great emphasis 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 Alice A Bailey claims Shamballa her spelling is an extra dimensional or spiritual reality on the astral plane a spiritual centre where the governing deity of Earth Sanat Kumara dwells as the highest Avatar of the Planetary Logos of Earth and is said to be an expression of the Will of God 13 Expeditions and location hypotheses Edit Nicholas and Helena Roerich led a 1924 1928 expedition aimed at Shambhala They also believed that Belukha Mountain in the Altai Mountains was an entrance to Shambhala a common belief in that region 14 Inspired by Theosophical lore and several visiting Mongol lamas Gleb Bokii the chief Bolshevik cryptographer and one of the bosses of the Soviet secret police along with his writer friend Alexander Barchenko embarked on a quest for Shambhala in an attempt to merge Kalachakra tantra and ideas of Communism in the 1920s Among other things in a secret laboratory affiliated with the secret police Bokii and Barchenko experimented with Buddhist spiritual techniques to try to find a key for engineering perfect communist human beings 15 They contemplated a special expedition to Inner Asia to retrieve the wisdom of Shambhala the project fell through as a result of intrigues within the Soviet intelligence service as well as rival efforts of the Soviet Foreign Commissariat that sent its own expedition to Tibet in 1924 French Buddhist Alexandra David Neel associated Shambhala with Balkh in present day Afghanistan also offering the Persian Sham i Bala elevated candle as an etymology of its name 16 In a similar vein the Gurdjieffian J G Bennett published speculation that Shambalha was Shams i Balkh a Bactrian sun temple 17 Hitler sent several expeditions to Tibet in the 1930s to contact the Agartha and Shambala supposedly part of Nazi esotericism 18 In popular culture Edit Shambhala may have been the inspiration for Shangri La a paradise on Earth hidden in a Tibetan valley which features in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by British author James Hilton 19 In 1969 Shambhala Publications a book publishing company was founded by Samuel Bercholz 20 and Michael Fagan in Berkeley California Daniel Moore wrote the song Shambala that in 1973 was recorded by both B W Stevenson and Three Dog Night Shambhala appears as a mini dungeon in the PC 98 game E V O The Theory of Evolution The dungeon is a network of tunnels that act as the entrance to both Atlantis and MuMuch of the plot of Thomas Pynchon s 2006 novel Against the Day revolves around Shambhala with some characters seeking an actual city by that name a site of unique and exploitable power and others treating it as a great figure for the transcendent In 2009 the mythical city was depicted in the video game Uncharted 2 Among Thieves The game follows treasure hunter Nathan Drake in search of the lost city Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie Conqueror of Shamballa mainly takes place in an alternate version of Earth in 1923 specifically Germany The parallel world that serves as the main setting in the Fullmetal Alchemist series is a secondary setting Said parallel world is believed to be Shamballa by the movie s villains a group of Nazis led by Dietlinde Eckhart based on the historical Dietrich Eckart who desire to open an inter dimensional portal between the two worlds so as to harness Shamballa s technology to help Hitler take control of Germany Shambala also features in the 1996 Scrooge McDuck comic The Treasure of the Ten Avatars by Keno Don Rosa In this comic Scrooge McDuck Donald Duck and his nephews discover Shambala and try to find its treasures In 2012 a trilogy named Sambhala was published by a Bangladeshi writer In the 2016 movie Doctor Strange by Marvel Studios shamballa is used as the wifi password at Kamar Taj the place where Stephen Strange first learns to do magic The 2019 Indian animated film Little Singham Aur Shambhala Jhambhala features a villain named Shambhala who wants to become an Asura In Nintendo s 2019 tactical strategy game Fire Emblem Three Houses Shambhala exists as an extremely technologically advanced subterranean city of an ancient people called the Agarthans looking to overthrow and reclaim the surface The player can visit and fight through Shambhala in chapters 20 and 21 in the Silver Snow and Verdant Wind routes respectively In 2021 Canadian Experimental Soundscape artist MU Simulacra released a 12 minute track entitled Shambhala for his 24 hour acoustic epic Art as an Expression of Rta The song sonically explores the inward journey of finding Shambhala as a non spatial destination or dimension Repetitive tones melodies and loops that are purposely familiar yet ambiguous are utilized in order to demonstrate the effect of state of mind on interpretive processes See also EditAgartha Kumari Kandam Lost city Sagala Shambala disambiguation Shangri LaCitations Edit a b c Sambhala also Sambhala is the name of a town between the Rathapra and Ganges rivers identified by some with Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh In the Puranas it is named as the place where Kalki the last incarnation of Vishnu is to appear Monier Williams Sanskrit English Dictionary 1899 Hiltebeitel Alf 1999 Rethinking India s Oral and Classical Epics University of Chicago Press pp 217 218 ISBN 978 0 226 34050 0 The Tantra by Victor M Fic Abhinav Publications 2003 p 49 The Bon Religion of Tibet by Per Kavǣrne Shambhala 1996 LePage Victoria 1996 Shambhala The Fascinating Truth Behind the Myth of Shangri La Quest Books pp 125 126 ISBN 978 0835607506 a b c Arch orient Nakl Ceskoslovenske akademie ved 2003 pp 254 261 Retrieved 11 May 2020 a b Roerich Nicholas 2003 Shambhala Vedams eBooks P Ltd p 65 ISBN 978 81 7936 012 5 Retrieved 11 May 2020 Das Sarat Chandra 1882 Contributions to the Religion and History of Tibet in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol LI Reprint Manjushri Publishing House Delhi 1970 pp 81 2 Edwin Bernbaum The Way to Shambhala A Search for the Mythical Kingdom Beyond the Himalayas 1980 amp Albert Grunwedel Der Weg nach Shambhala 1915 Alexander Berzin Taking the Kalachakra Initiation 1997 p 33 Lubosh Belka The Shambhala Myth in Buryatia and Mongolia in Tomasz Gacek Jadwiga Pstrusinska eds Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2009 pp 19 30 p 20f Lopez Donald S Jr Prisoners of Shangri La Tibetan Buddhism and the West The University of Chicago Press 1998 Bernbaum Edwin 1980 The Way to Shambhala pp 18 19 Reprint 1989 Jeremy P Tarcher Inc Los Angeles ISBN 0 87477 518 3 Bailey Alice A A Treatise on Cosmic Fire 1932 Lucis Trust 1925 p 753 Archer Kenneth Roerich East amp West Parkstone Press 1999 p 94 Znamenski 2011 David Neel A Les Nouvelles litteraires 1954 p 1 Bennett J G Gurdjieff Making a New World Bennett notes Idries Shah as the source of the suggestion Childress David Hatcher 1985 Lost Cities of China Central Asia and India A Traveler s Guide Lost cities series Adventures Unlimited Press p 31 ISBN 978 0932813008 Hitler sent several expeditions to Tibet in the thirties to contact the Agartha and Shambala and apparently created quite strong ties with the Shambala Wood Michael 17 February 2011 BBC History Ancient History in depth Shangri La BBC Retrieved 28 February 2018 Midal Fabrice ed Recalling Chogyam Trungpa Boston MA Shambhala 2005 ISBN 1 59030 207 9 p 475General references EditRock opera Szambalia Shambhala 2014 Official premiere in Poland Warsaw 24 06 2014 Rock song Halls of Shambala by B W Stevenson covered and popularized by the rock band Three Dog Night Shambala song Berzin Alexander 2003 Study Buddhism 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 Meyer Karl Ernest and Brysac Shareen Blair 2006 Tournament of Shadows The Great Game And the Race for Empire in Central Asia ISBN 0 465 04576 6 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 Archived 2008 05 17 at the Wayback Machine in New Dawn No 72 May June 2002 Trungpa Chogyam Shambhala The Sacred Path of the Warrior Shambhala Publications ISBN 0 87773 264 7 Znamenski Andrei 2011 Red Shambhala Magic Prophecy and Geopolitics in the Heart of Asia Quest Books Wheaton IL 2011 ISBN 978 0 8356 0891 6 Dr S D Montford Tibetan Buddhist Atrocities and Propaganda Happy Medium Publishing Sydney 2004 Allen Charles 1999 The Search for Shangri La A Journey into Tibetan History Little Brown and Company Reprint Abacus London 2000 ISBN 0 349 11142 1 Znamenski Andrei Red Shambhala Magic Prophecy and Geopolitics in the Heart of Asia Wheaton IL Quest Books 2011 ISBN 978 0 8356 0891 6 Martin Dan 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 Symmes Patrick 2007 The Kingdom of the Lotus in Outside 30th Anniversary Special Edition pp 148 187 Mariah Media Inc Red Oak Iowa Meurois Daniel et Anne Givaudan 1987 Le Voyage a Shambhalla Un pelerinage vers soi Ed Le Passe Monde External links Edit Media related to Shambhala at Wikimedia Commons Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Shambhala amp oldid 1157306351, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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