"If you know the teachings of Shambhala, you know the future"
(N. K. Roerich)
Legends about Shambhala have been known for thousands of years. In the Indian scriptures of the Purana, this name refers to the city from where the Messiah should appear.
Mysterious Shambhala gave rise to many conflicting opinions and controversies among scientists and esotericists. Since the XV-XVI centuries, numerous travelers and expeditions have tried to find it.
Scientists - orientalists regard Shambhala as an ancient Himalayan kingdom that really existed in the past.
Does this place really exist?
In the theosophical tradition, Shambhala is "the location of the Great Teachers who advance the evolution of mankind; it is in the highest vibrations, therefore it is invisible and inaccessible to an unenlightened person." Shambhala is described in the works of Nicholas and Helena Roerich - "Teaching Living Ethics (Agni Yoga)".
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According to legend, there are three entrances to the mysterious land of Shambhala: Tibet - Kailash, Altai - Belukha and the Gobi desert.
Tibetan texts say that Shambhala is a spiritual country and is located in the northwest of the sacred Mount Kailash. Mount Kailash (Kailash) is considered the center of the World, the Universe and the most energetically powerful place on Earth. In ancient Tibetan texts it is called Kang Rimpoche - "Precious Snow Mountain".
The height of Kailash is still a controversial issue, in different sources it is determined from 6638 to 6714 meters. Professor Ernst Muldashev believes that the original height of the sacred Mount Kailash was 6666 meters and it was built after the Flood by the surviving Atlanteans.
The top of Mount Kailash still remains unconquered, no one has been able to climb to the top. The sacred scriptures of the Bon religion of the Tibetans say that no one will ever rise to its top to learn the secret.
The ancient religions of Nepal and China consider Kailash to be a sacred mountain endowed with divine powers. Pilgrimages are made to her for the purpose of completing the bark. Believers of four religions: Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Bon adherents consider Kailash to be the "heart of the world", "the axis of the earth."
* According to the tradition of the Hindus, Shiva dwells on Kailash - one of the gods included, along with Brahma and Vishnu, in the supreme triad.
* According to Vishnu - Purana, the peak is a reflection or image of Mount Meru - the cosmic mountain in the center of the Universe.
* Buddhists consider the mountain to be the abode of the Buddha.
* Jains revere Kailash as the place where their first saint achieved liberation.
* In the Tibetan tradition of Bon, Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar lying at its foot are the heart of the ancient country of Shangshung, where Bon was born.
Legend has it: if you go around Kailash 108 times - make a kora - you will break out of the circle of rebirth and achieve Buddha's enlightenment.
Eastern religions claim that the sacred Mount Kailash was the north pole before the Flood, it is a pyramid, the mountain is hollow inside, is of artificial origin and was built using the power of five elements: air, water, earth, wind and fire.
The mountains surrounding Kailash have a smooth or concave surface, the researchers called them "stone mirrors", which are able to change time - energy and are the place of transition to parallel worlds.
There are legends that the Great Teachers - Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Zarathustra, Confucius - are in the "sarcophagus" of Kailash in a state of samadhi (the pinnacle of divine consciousness), who "will serve as the genetic code for the reproduction of mankind when civilizations change."
The legends speak of the extended underground passages of Kailash, ending with a stone door that has never been opened by anyone. Nicholas Roerich wrote: "Behind the stone door in the cave, secrets are hidden for the future, but the time has not yet arrived for them."
Where can Shambhala be located?
Legends of many peoples of the world tell about Shambhala in China, Mongolia, India, Russia, Central Asia.
* The first mention of Shambhala is found in the 10th century Buddhist text Kalachakra - tantra ("Tantra of the Wheel of Time"), the teaching that the king of Shambhala Suchandra received from Buddha Shakyamuni.
* Chinese chronicles describing the time from 3000 BC testify to the existence of the holy land of the Immortals in the Shamo (Gobi) desert. The ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu went to this Earth, having written his famous treatise "Tao Te Ching" based on the results of the pilgrimage (on bamboo).
* Chinese emperors sent delegations to the "Sages of the Mountains" in Kunlun.
* Indian brahmanas believe in the reality of the existence of the Rishis in the Himalayas and Mount Meru in northern India.
* The lamas of Mongolia speak about the kingdom of northern Shambhala.
* In the twentieth century, travelers Przhevalsky and Ossendovsky wrote about the traditions associated with Shambhala in Asia.
* The Old Believers of Russia have a legend about Belovodye - the legendary country of freedom, which is associated with Iriy - the paradise of the ancient Slavs.
In Russian fairy tales this is the image of a "milk river with jelly banks" flowing from the sky. Nicholas Roerich claimed that the legend about Belovodye came from the Altai peoples.
* According to legend, Shambala is located in Altai, inside the two-peaked sacred mountain Belukha, from where Buddha came to India. Belukha is the starting point of Nicholas Roerich's expedition in search of Shambhala.
* Altai shamans say that in the Yarlu valley - "the valley of the edelweiss" there is the northern entrance to Shambhala, the southern one is located in the Himalayas, in the valley of the Brahmaputra river.
* Some researchers associate Shambhala with those who flourished in the 7th-10th centuries A. D. e. Buddhist cities - states of the Tarim Basin in Eastern (Chinese) Turkestan, where the Great Silk Road once ran.
* Tibetan lamas hold different points of view: some believe that Shambhala is (and still is) in Tibet (in the Kunlun mountain range), others in neighboring Xinjiang (Western China).
* Most Buddhists speak of Shambhala symbolically, considering it a reflection of a spiritually enlightened consciousness, and not a real geographical object.
Who was looking for Shambhala and when?
Theosophist, writer and traveler Helena Blavatsky in Isis Unveiled gives a legend about the “sons of God” and the “sacred island” - Shambhala. The source of the legend is the "Book of Dzyan" - the most ancient literary and philosophical treatise of earthly civilization.
According to Blavatsky, Shambhala is an invisible mystical country in which mahatmas live - the disembodied teachers of humanity. They communicate with the “chosen ones”, transmitting messages and secret knowledge through them. The Mahatmas are united in a kind of "world government", the so-called "White Brotherhood".
* The first to tell about Shambala was the Portuguese Jesuit missionary Estevan Casella, who visited Bhutan and Tibet in the 17th century.
* Alexander Choma de Körös, a Hungarian and Romanian philologist-orientalist who visited India and Tibet at the beginning of the 19th century, wrote that Shambhala is “a mythical country located in the north” and its capital is Kalapa - “the residence of many famous kings of Shambhala” … Kereshi indicated the exact geographical coordinates of Shambhala - between 45 and 50 degrees north latitude, beyond the river Sita or Yaksart (Syrdarya).
* Professor of the University of Munich Karl Haushofer at the beginning of the XX century repeatedly visited Lhasa in search of ancient manuscripts containing esoteric texts on occult cosmogenesis.
These trips laid the foundation for future expeditions organized by Himmler to the Himalayas in the 1930s and 1940s. The secret materials of the SS expeditions still remain sealed to this day. The governments of Germany, Great Britain and the United States plan to open secret files in 2044 - 100 years after the expeditions.
* The chairman of the Cheka Felix Dzerzhinsky and the Soviet intelligence officer, the Chekist Yakov Blumkin were looking for the highest knowledge of Shambhala, which they wanted to apply to improve socialism. The ideological inspirer was the geographer, doctor, writer Alexander Barchenko, who created a secret organization - "United Labor Brotherhood" for the active study of the scientific heritage of Shambhala.
In 1925, Yakov Blumkin was sent to Tibet, who adjoins the Roerich expedition and passes with it Tibet and Western China.
* From 1924 to 1928, Nicholas, Yuri and Helena Roerich conducted a Central Asian expedition (Russia, India, China, Mongolia, Tibet), the purpose of which was to fulfill the tasks of the OGPU for the construction of a new state in Asia. However, the Dalai Lama refused to admit Roerich's expedition to Lhasa.
* In the 1990s, Russian scientist, Professor Ernst Muldashev organized four scientific Himalayan and Tibetan expeditions in search of the mysterious “City of the Gods”.
The research of a group of scientists made it possible to put forward a hypothesis about the existence of a “gene pool of mankind”, consisting of representatives of various indigenous human races in a state of “samadhi” (samadhi).
Muldashev admits that the legendary Shambhala is located in the region of the "eternal continent" - in Tibet, where, in his words, "a construction of the passage to parallel worlds has been created."
* In 2004, a Russian expedition led by Professor Yuri Zakharov established the location of the capital of the Ancient State of Shangshung (Shambhala), an ancient religious and philosophical center that bordered on Persia and Tajikistan and was located in the region of Mount Kailash (Kailash) and Lake Manosarovar.
Esotericists and scholars about Shambhala
* Lev Gumilyov wrote: “the legend of the country of Shambhala in Tibet really exists and even received a special distribution there. Shambhala is the abode of bliss and is located somewhere in the northwest, the central city of the country - Barpasargad."
* Ossendovsky, in his book about his wanderings in Mongolia, describes the underground country of Agharti: "the innermost mystical center of the Earth", "the location of the King of the World."
* Nicholas Roerich, based on information received from the lamas, spoke about the reality of the location of Shambhala in the Himalayan mountains, north of Kailash.
* In the "Secret Doctrine" of Helena Blavatsky, Shambhala is identified with the White Island, located in central Asia. Shambhala is called the place where the survivors of Lemuria found their refuge.
* Edgar Cayce spoke about the existence of the Gobi country on the land of modern Mongolia, where "a city with a golden Temple is to be excavated."
* His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama says about Shambhala: “Shambhala is a place located somewhere on this planet, it is also a place that can be seen only by those whose minds and karmic inclinations are pure. That is why it remains closed to the everyday world."
The Akashic Chronicle contains information that the stone of Atlantis - Ipet Sout - "Mother of the Universe" was delivered to Shambhala from the Karnak Temple in Thebes.
In sacred Tibetan texts, the stone is called the "Treasure of the World". The gleam of the stone can be seen as celestial flashes that color the sky with stripes of orange, yellow, blue and milky white.
The Tibetans say that the mystical power of the stone connects three points of the world - three mountains: Kanchenjungu, Kailashi Belukha, united into a single space - the World Mandala.
Ernst Muldashev in his book "Golden Plates of Harati" writes that during an expedition to Tibet, he observed the phenomenon of the glow of the Shantamani stone, the history of which was described by Nicholas Roerich.
According to Tibetan Lamas, the stone is located on the Shambhala Tower. Perhaps Mount Kailash is the Tower of Shambhala?
Nobody has yet conquered the top of Kailash.
No one was holding the original Book of Dzyan in their hands.
Nobody saw the city and inhabitants of Shambhala …
Perhaps this mythical country exists in parallel worlds, or maybe - in the minds of people and you can see it only after reaching the Buddha's enlightenment?
I think that time will pass, and Kailash will reveal its secrets, then we will understand the mysterious words of the Tibetan Lamas:
Author: Valentina Zhitanskaya
