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Xinjiang province in western China... Or even near the Gobi Desert. Said to be enclosed by a double ring of snowcapped

mountains, the fabled vale of Shambala resembled a mandala, Buddhism's circular symbol of the unity of all

creation.

Exploring the Unexplained, by Kelly Knauer, 2006

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For thousands of years rumors and reports have been circulating among the cognoscenti of the nations suggesting

that somewhere between Tibet, among the icy peaks and secluded valleys of Central Asia, there lies an inaccessible

paradise, a place of universal wisdom and ineffable peace called Shambhala - although it is also known by other

names. It is inhabited by adepts from every race and culture who form an inner circle of humanity secretly guiding its

evolution. In that place, so the legends say, sages have existed since the beginning of human history in a valley of

supreme beatitude that is sheltered from the icy arctic winds and where the climate is always warm and temperate, the

sun always shines, the gentle airs are always beneficent and nature flowers luxuriantly.

There in a verdant oasis only the pure of heart can live, enjoying perfect ease and happiness and never knowing

suffering, want or old age. Love and wisdom reign and injustice is unknown. [...] The inhabitants are long-lived, wear

beautiful and perfect bodies and possess supernatural powers; their spiritual knowledge is deep, their technological

level highly advanced, their laws mild and their study of arts an science covers the full spectrum of cultural

achievement, but on a far higher level than anything the outside world has attained.

Into this basic theme of the northern Utopia popular folklore has woven strange and wonderful features. This place is

invisible; it is made of subtle matter, it is an island in the sea of nectar, a heaven piercing mountain, forbidden

territory. The grown is strewn with gold and silver, and precious jewels bedeck the trees - rubies, diamonds and

garlands of jade; the place is guarded by great devas from another world and by walls as high as heaven; magic

fountains, lakes of gems, or crystal and of the nectar of immortality, wish-fulfilling fruits and flying horses, stones that

speak, subterranean caverns filled with all the treasures of the earth; these any many more wonders embellish the

landscape of the primal paradise that seems to express the deepest yearnings of the human heart.

[...] Numerous sources support the tradition that Shambhala once lay near the North Pole. The Scythian, a branch of

the Vedic peoples who roamed the Central Asian steppe in the first millennium B.C., told of a wonderful place similar

to Shambhala that lay far to the north. They said that if one travelled far enough, one came to lands of mythical and

fantastic tribes and beyond them, to the Ripean mountains, which lay in a desolate waste of snow and darkness that

no mortal could cross. Beyond that barrier lay a beautiful country, warm and sheltered from the icy winds outside,

where the sun rose and set only once a year, as it does within the Arctic Circle, and there a happy race lived in

parklands full of flowering trees.

According to the ancient Greeks, this was the northern station of their Delphic god Apollo [the god of medicine] and

the land of the legendary Hyperboreans to which Apollo returned every nineteen years, riding the sky on a chariot

drawn by swans. It was a secret paradise where the heavens turned on the polar axle, which the Hyperboreans revered

as the Pillar of Atlas and Heaven-Bearer, and it belonged to a wise and prosperous people who lived for a thousand

years in harmony with each other, free from suffering, sickness and old age. To the Greeks these semi-deified sages

were the stuff of myth, for their land was accessible only to gods and heroes, not to mere mortals, and could only be

reached by an aerial way. The poet Pindar wrote that "neither by ship not by foot couldst thou find the wondrous way

to the assembly of the Hyperboreans."

[...] Air travel is another recurring theme in the legends of Shambhala. Interstellar travel was attributed to its

inhabitants long before the development of modern technological and astronomical knowledge. According to ancient

Chinese lore, the aircraft and space vehicles of the Immortals journey among the stars, observing the habitats of the

other races and kingdoms. Andrew Tomas says there is a well-known Tibetan legend that the Chintamani Stone, whose

inner radiation is said to be mightier than radium, was brought to earth on the back of a winged horse or Lung-ta,

which he believed to be a metaphor for a space vehicle. Lung-ta was supposed to be able to traverse the whole

universe as a messenger of the gods, and tales of Tibetan kings and saints making flights on it over enormous

distances circulated in Tibet for centuries.

Shambhala: The Fascinating Truth, by Victoria LePage, 1996

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Tibetan sacred texts speak of a mystical kingdom called Shambhala, hidden behind snow peaks somewhere north of

Tibet, where the most sacred Buddhist teachings -- the Kalachakra or Wheel of Time -- are preserved. It is prophesied

that a future king of Shambhala will come with a great army to free the world from barbarism and tyranny, and will

usher in a golden age. Similarly, the Hindu Puranas say that a future world redeemer -- the kalki-avatara, the tenth

and final manifestation of Vishnu -- will come from Shambhala. Both the Hindu and Buddhist traditions say it

contains a magnificent central palace radiating a powerful, diamondlike light.

Shambhala: a real place or only myths?, by bibliotecapleyades.net

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Though it's true location has never been found, its beginnings are unknown and its existence is unproven, Shambhala

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