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Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism were largely unknown in the West prior to the beginning of the 20th century. [12] 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.
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 ]
The Ganden Sumtsenling Monastery, also known as Sungtseling and Guihuasi [1] (Tibetan: དགའ་ལྡན་སུམ་རྩེན་གླིང་, Wylie: dga' ldan sum rtsen gling, THL: ganden sumtsenling; Chinese: 松赞林寺, pinyin: Sōngzànlín Sì), is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery situated 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the city of Shangri-La at elevation 3,380 metres (11,090 ft) in ...
Shambhala International (originally named Vajradhatu) is the umbrella organization that encompasses many of the distinct institutions of the Shambhala spiritual community, founded by the students of the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
Shambhala partly derives from Chögyam Trungpa's Shambhala teachings, named after the mythical Tibetan Kingdom of Shambhala. Shambhala in its current form is a new religious movement , the advanced levels of which involve secret teachings and a vow of devotion to the guru , a position currently held by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche .
U.S. Marine standing guard at Shangri-La (1944). The book, published in 1933, caught the notice of the public only after Hilton's Goodbye, Mr. Chips was published in 1934. [citation needed] Lost Horizon became a huge popular success and in 1939 was published in paperback form, as Pocket Book #1, making it the first "mass-market" paperback.
Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh [a] (Russian: Николай Константинович Рерих), better known as Nicholas Roerich (/ ˈ r ɛr ɪ k /; October 9, 1874 – December 13, 1947), was a Russian painter, writer, archaeologist, theosophist, philosopher, and public figure.
Agartha is frequently associated or confused with the Buddhist mythical kingdom Shambhala. [9] In occult thought, they are sometimes conceptualized as being two rival powers, one the "Right Hand Way" and one the "Left Hand Way", with Agartha being conceptualized as the right hand, a land of goodness, in contrast to Shambhala. [ 9 ]