Shambhala

Shambhala (also Shambala, Shamballa, Tibetan: བདེ་འབྱུང་; Wylie: bde ' byung, pronounced De - jang ) is in Tibetan Buddhism a mystical kingdom that should be hidden somewhere in Central Asia. It is mentioned in various ancient texts, such as the Kalachakra, or some ancient writings of the Shang Hung, which preceded the Tibetan Buddhists in the west of Tibet in time. Bon texts speak of a very similar kingdom called Olmolungring.

Where whatever may be its historical roots, Shambhala was viewed by more and more as the Pure Land Buddhists, a fabulous kingdom whose reality is just as fantastic as spiritually or physically or geographically. In this form of the myth of Shambhala came to the Western world, to influence where non-Buddhist as well as Buddhist spiritual seekers and also to some extent the popular culture in general.

Theosophical Evolution construct

Shambhala was received in the pantheon of strict rank structure of the Theosophical Society, which claimed that the Lord of the world uppermost in Shambhala live, which was quickly located in the Gobi desert impassable. Theosophists transcended the geographical Tibet to political umbrella of the world where an imagined future world government would have their headquarters. This invented by Helena Blavatsky ideas were taken up by the Theosophists, the impostor and spy Ignaz Trebitsch Lincoln, neo-Nazi and neo-Nazi authors such as Miguel Serrano, Gerald Suster, Pauwels / Bergier and Trevor Ravenscroft and developed.

It should have been a goal Nicholas Roerich on his travels to find Shambhala: he guessed it in the Altai Mountains. After the occupation of Mongolia by Japan 1937 Japan tried to use the legend for political purposes by the rumor was spread that Japan was Shambhala.

Trivia

• In the video game Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Nathan Drake, the hero seeks the help of a key dagger of the fabled city of Shambhala and finds them eventually, it is destroyed at the end of the game by the action of the antagonist.
• In the video game Indiana Jones and the Tower of Babel visited this Shamabala a monastery, there to find a part of the destroyed machine of Babel.
• In the anime Fullmetal Alchemist - The Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa tries to get the Thule Society in this world