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Shangri-La is a fictional place in Tibet's Kunlun Mountains, [1] described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by English author James Hilton. Hilton portrays Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery , enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. [ 1 ]
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. [18] In a similar vein, the Gurdjieffian J. G. Bennett published speculation that Shambalha was Shams-i-Balkh, a Bactrian sun temple. [19]
Shangri-La (Chinese: 香格里拉; pinyin: Xiānggélǐlā; Tibetan: སེམས་ཀྱི་ཉི་ཟླ།) is a county-level city in northwestern Yunnan province, China, named after the mythical land depicted in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon. It is the capital and largest city of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
Its name derives from James Hilton's imaginary land Shangri-La because it was so peaceful that it seemed that time did not pass. [citation needed]Shangrilá is acronym of: Sociedad Hipotecaria Administradora de Negocios Generales Rentas Inversiones Locaciones Anónima (S.H.A.N.G.R.I.L.A), name of the society with Argentinian capitals which was the proprietary of the terrain.
Apache A Parisian gangster or thug (from the collective name Apache for several nations of Native Americans). [1]Bohemian A person with an unconventional artistic lifestyle (originally meaning an inhabitant of Bohemia; the secondary meaning may derive from an erroneous idea that the Romani people originate from Bohemia). [2]
Shangri-La, a popular live music and late-night area located in the south-east corner of the Glastonbury Festival site Shangri-La, a 600-acre estate on Roberts Island, Nova-Scotia, once owned by socialite Carlo Amato
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The Shangri-La Hotel Singapore was managed by Westin Hotels & Resorts, until Shangri-La International Hotel Management Limited was founded in 1979, and management of the Singapore Shangri-La was taken back over from Westin in 1984. However, it would not be until 1991 that Shangri-La assumed control of the rest of the hotels. [6]