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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.
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 ...
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 ]
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 .
Shambhala: In Tibetan Buddhist tradition, a kingdom hidden somewhere in the Himalayas; Theosophists regard it as the home on the etheric plane of the governing deity of the earth, Sanat Kumara. Siddhashila: The place where souls who have escaped the cycle of reincarnation and attained moksha go according to the cosmology of Jainism. Svarga
Kalapa, according to Buddhist legend, is the capital city of the Kingdom of Shambhala where the Kulika King is said to reign on a lion throne. It is said to be an exceedingly beautiful city with a sandalwood pleasure grove containing a huge three-dimensional Kalachakra mandala made by King Suchandra.
Painting showing the story of the Conversion of the Householder Yasa, who became a mendicant and was established as an Arhat, in the Red Temple in Tsparang, fifteenth century. According to some accounts, Tsaparang was made the capital of the Kingdom of Guge by Namde Wosung , one of the sons of the Langdarma the anti-Buddhist king of Tibet 838 ...