Shambhala, resplendent and hidden, invisible to predators
shining through the eyes of mystics, a kingdom coveted by conquerors and dictators.
Legends tell the story of immense treasures, of a land ruled by immortal kings with unlimited power.
Echoes of stories dot the narrations of fugitives and merchants
explorers and travelers of all manner along the Silk Road.
Shambhala
the Himalayan summits
where supreme wisdom and universal love have created pureness and harmony.
It is believed by some to be the source of all life on our planet.
Fear? No, I was never afraid
to come here o into any other cave.
I remember playing here with
my friends and other children.
There were no steps
so getting up here was a lot of fun.
Some say this hole is the opening to
a secret tunnel leading far away.
Someone blocked the entrance with this boulder.
I don’t think anyone entered.
I don’t know if Tibet is Shambhala
Many scholars say that Ladakh
may have some characteristics of Shambhala
Many people believe there is in Ladakh
a cave with a door
to the kingdom of Shambhala.
These facts, or perhaps legends
offer no tangible proof.
The great teachers don’t say
What Shambhala is or even where it is.
Personally, having done some research
I consider it beyond the reach of humans.
I have been to Tibet, in Tibet sometimes there are rocks with signs and people say...
this is a door to Shambhala, but also here in Ladak they sometimes say Choglamsa
the North gate, or the access to Shambhala, rumors of this like, but they are legends.
Leh, Ladakh - India
We knew nothing about Shambhala.
We hadn’t read anything about it
but felt strongly attracted to Ladakh.
Something significant marked
the beginning of this story.
We were at a friend’s on a barge in Paris.
He introduced us to a lama he knew well.
This lama said he would
give us a reference letter.
This was strange
because we hadn’t told him anything.
So we left with a small piece of
Thinn paper bearing the lama’s seal.
We imagined it might be important
but we didn’t know the lama sufficiently well
to understand just how important and
we didn’t know what had been written.
We left for Ladakh.
At first, we traveled from one monastery to the next
without knowing where
we would use this reference letter.
Some monks turned the piece of papera round
without being able to read it.
They didn’t understand it, and gave it back to us.
We knew we were not in the right place.
Shambhala?
Isn’t it a lama?
What is it?
I don’t know
At the village of Pokar
the lama told us it was a sacred place.
This so-called Shambhala everybody is seeking.
What can it be?
Shargola: a purification rite
This village is considered to be the Eastern Gate.
This place was called Tingdho where the three valley meet.
It is the entrance to the three valleys, hence the name
Shambhala is the north.
When the future Buddha of the Shambhala kingdom comes
there will be amazing changes.
Before his descent, he will bring complete destruction to the world.
It is written in the scriptures that the force of the four elements
will cause the total destruction of all living and non-living beings.
The teachers say the Buddha of the Shambhala kingdom will be the last.
If this place is the gate to Shambhala, there must be a door, an entrance.
But I can’t find it. A characteristic of this area
as written in history books, is that “an earth and sky triangle”
is to contain the energy.
This is true, because Saint Autrumpa
was here and reported it.
Only divine beings live at Shambhala.
We can define these being as gods.
Even on the earthly level there are “dri-sa”, the “scent-eaters”.
They are entities we do not perceive, like the spirits of the water and wind.
Similarly, in Shambhala, there are powerful beings, particular entities
such as the goddess of eternal life
dominated by Brahma and Vishnu
and the powerful kings of the Deva.
We can’t say for sure who lives there.
I think it may be like on earth: there are many different types of sentient beings.
At last, we arrived at the Hemis monastery.
As soon as they saw the paper, our reference letter
they greeted us and told us to wait.
They would take care of us.
The medicine lama came to us.
Although we didn’t speak his tongue and
he didn’t speak English
he managed to show us some documents
which indicated the passage of
Jesus through that monastery.
This was important us
because of what we had experienced
in a former life 2000 years earlier
and reported in the book: “The Other Face of Jesus”.
Jesus made a trip to Ladakh
during his co-called “lost years”.
Next the lama showed us where to sleep.
There were two mats
on the floor behind a curtain.
That night it all happened.
I left my body in the small cell
of the Hemis monastery
together with our guide
Master Djwal Kool
who had also disembodied.
In an astral voyage we crossed green valleys
surrounded by snow-capped mountains.
I was absorbed by a spiral of light
that led us to other locations
among snowfields and high summits.
In these valley I saw
geometric shapes and buildings.
There were Aztec-like shapes
Others in Hellenic style
But they were sublimated shapes.
One could say sacred architecture.
With the lama we went into one builing
with cupolas and colonnades.
We found ourselves
in a large hall with three doors.
We went through the middle one.
Each door intriqued me.
There were signs all around
them in a script unknown to me.
I couldn’t read them, but I had the distinct feeling
they referred to humanity’s past and present.
It is known that there is a text that shows the way to Shambhala
which we Tibetans call ‘Shambala Lamyuk’.
I was lucky enough to see this book kept by a family in the Zanskar
there is the story of a person who has been to Shambhala.
How it got there isn't said. But remember that heading north, you come across a series of large glaciers
beyond the glaciers there is a lake or an ocean and to reach Shambhala you have to cross it.
In the book it is clearly written that the monks of Shambhala
wear the same tunic as the Indian monks of Jambudweep.
Men dress in blue while women in red.
The description says that there are countless huge cities and that each city
is governed by a governor who wears a golden crown on his head.
Then in the book there is also written that when a messenger is sent from one place
to another with a letter he receives a small stick
he holds it in his hand and thanks to this object he can instantly reach any place he wishes.
We found ourselves in a small hall.
A kind of welcoming committee was expecting us.
They wore the same simple blue tunics
nothing seemed to differentiate them.
Only a thin rope was used to tighten
their dress around their waist.
We were welcomed by these beings
Who put us to the test
and then told us about the place we were in.
This rod has a story.
It was given to us by the beings at Shambhala
when we first met.
It was strange because
they put it in our hand saying
“We give you this rod as a sign of connection
not of power, but as a link between you and us.”
Then they waited.
After a few minutes, since nothing was happening
and we remained silent not knowing what to say
they smiled and said: “This rod was a test.
As we saw no desire for power in your eyes
you may continue on your journey.
Had we seen even the slightest desire
for power we wouldn’t have tolerated it
neither regarding your trip
nor for what we have to tell you.
We found this rod four years later
in the concrete, physical realm, among bushes.
We knew it was that same rod
because at that moment we heard the voice
of a being form Shambhala saying
it was indeed the rod used in the test.
Srinagar, Kashmir - India
They were asked about the one with two horns.
I will recite to you an account of him.
Verily, we gave him the ways
and the means to all ends.
And he followed a road.
He traveled to the farthermost West
until he reached the setting place of the sun.
He found it setting in a bubbly spring.
Near it he found a people.
We said: “Oh, Two-Horns, you can either punish
them or treat them with kindness.”
About Islamic mythology?
We know Alexander by the name of Iskandar Dhu-l-Qarnain.
Iskandar means with two horns or was at the same time a man but also a God.
He had in his soul the desire to find the sources of life.
In the holy Quran this description is made.
Its history is linked to Al Khadir who is an immortal saint.
When Alexander heard about Shambhala's existence, he wanted to look for her.
This Al Khadir man wanted to guide him and together they started the search
because the saint had already drunk from the source of immortality.
They reached the mountains, then crossed underground passages and reached a wonderful place
heaven on earth with the wonderful source.
...end Alexander refused to drink the water of life.
It is said that in 880 Suchandra
king of Kashmir, went to Shambhala
and learned from the Buddha the knowledge of the practice of Kalachakra which then spread.
In Kalachakra you have to concentrate on your body and locate the energy points.
The inner aspect requires concentration on one's internal points
to elevate them through the purity of the mind and thanks to karmic connections.
This means that when practicing Kalachakra meditation
it is possible that, thanks to karmic bonds, a person will guide us to the level of Shambhala.
It all started in 1971
I was a student then.
My first out of body experience occurred on afternoon.
I was lying down, relaxing
when suddenly I saw myself outside my physical body.
I hadn’t taken any drugs or artificial substances.
and just very tired.
When I saw myself outside my body my
first thought was to ask
is this death?
I wanted to understand.
I searched bookstores and faculty libraries
until I found a passage in an old book
that described my experience.
It was an astral trip.
After some time, it happened again.
Gradually, I noticed that the dense material
my armchair, the furniture, my room…
I could traverse all these things.
There’s also a funny episode.
At that time there was “Jaws”
a film about a man-eating shark.
It hadn’t been shown in France yet.
One day, I told myself that I’d like to
go to a movie theatre in the States.
I’d see the film, and then tell people here about it.
I did just that. I described details to friends.
When the film came out in France, everything fit.
At that time there was no Internet.
I couldn’t have known the details.
As months went by I found out that
by thinking about a place
I cloud get there at the speed of thought
or light, who knows?
At one point I was traversing a tunnel of light
exactly as in Near-Death Experiences accounts.
I found myself at the after-life level
the subtle dimension
the astral plane, whatever you may call it.
At that point I met the being
who has guided us since then.
We began to explore all subtle levels:
the one before life, the one after…
Everything began thanks to
our encounter with that guide
I salute the Guru, I invoke you, glorious and sublime teacher
who has extended the lineage of the primeval Buddha
in the kingdom of Shambhala.
May I realize this truth in the city of Kalapa, in the North
where the holy Dharma is revealed and where the Bodhisattva live
immersed in Kalachakra.
The magnificence of the palace surpasses hat of the god Indra
Its radiant square palace, adorned with gems, is 12 ancient miles
in breadth, surrounded by 900 million villages
its gardens of paradise delightfulness itself.
Sublime matter is heightened, to inestimable precious gem.
What is Shambhala? The Panchen Lama tells us
it is pure earth and resembles a lotus flower with eight petals.
It stands in the middle of an icy mountain, a very special mountain.
Each petal, each of the eight petals, is a separate, very large world in which many people live.
Each has a spiritual power...
the inhabitants do not live like us. We work, cultivate, instead they practice
Kalachakra is practiced most of the time in Shambhala.
I received Kalachakra initiation.
According to the teaching of the Buddha, we must practice
but it is not enough: without love, without compassion, without joy, without equality
it is impossible to reach that level.
Ultimately it is necessary to reach the spiritual elevation of the Bodhisattvas.
Love allows you to change vibratory state.
In my first out of body experience I was happy to
Travel around the planet in the material realm
at the speed of thought, beyond my physical body
but still on this planet. Then I found out that
by changing my interior state of consciousness
by conceiving more noble thoughts
and by touching all that we call love
which is actually something indefinable
difficult to categorize
because we tend to reduce it to what it is not
since it is infinite.
There is a vibratory state where
particles move more quickly.
You vibrate at an increasing speed
And this allows you to access the subtle levels.
Solan, Himachal Paradesh - India
Tibetan exile community, Bon Monastery
Benpo: Pre-Buddhist Tibetan Religion
Bon means: “invoking monk”
Olmo Lungring is the birthplace of
the founder of the Bon religion
Tonpa Scen Rab.
Yungdrung (Swastika): ancient Bon symbol for eternity.
Olmo Lungring is one of many divine dimensions where one can be born
through practice and prayer. One of these dimensions is Shambhala
and it is identical to Olmo Lungring.
Tonpa Scen Rab was born in Olmo Lungring for a precise reason:
to help future believers understand the importance of a pure place
where only pure beings live and where
only beings gifted with spiritual qualities may go.
It is a place where people hoard only virtues.
A pure being is born
into an environment of absolute perfection.
Tonpa Scen Rab chose Olmo Lungring
in order to later help others.
According to tradition and Bon scriptures
Master Tonpa Rab and
his word are a unique reference.
There are three biographies of
the founder of this faith:
the short, the medium and the extended.
In each version it is said that
Olmo Lungring is where Mount Kailash is.
The mountain in the shape of
the nine levels of Swastika (Yung Drung) is Kailash
according to the Mdo-Dus text.
Around Mount Kailash you find every reference:
the lake, the mountains and the rivers.
I am thus convinced that Olmo Lungring
is the place where Kailash is.
“The Road to Olmo Lunring” by Eisenhardt, Gobetti, Mariani
Kailash, the great mountain
recognizable by the nine
swastikas and its 500 yojan width.
The hills are large and beautiful.
In the hills there is an inaccessible
turquoise green lake, crystal-clear
and enchanting.
The other lakes are
in the 4 cardinal points.
The gold lake
the silver lake, the steel lake
and the small striped lake.
Four rivers flow from the mouths
of four animals:
to the East, from the elephant, comes the Gange
to the South, from the lion, comes the Sindhu
to the West, from the horse, comes the Pakshu
to the North, from the peacock, comes the Sita.
When born in Olmo Lungring
one can return to our world.
According to the Bon tradition
There are two types of men:
Common ones, born on earth and another type
the superior beings reincarnated in
the human world and called “Na”.
They are people of Olmo Lungring
but they look like humans.
Every time a being from Shambhala
is reincarnated, he accepts the weight
of dense matter and of reincarnation.
There is a part of Shambhala where
those called Bodhisattva live.
They are beings who have vowed
to remain on earth until
the last inhabitant has moved on to
the next level of consciousness.
Master Jesus is evidently
on many different vibratory planes.
One part of his emanation
is at Shambhala.
Another reincarnated some 40 years ago
in a Middle Eastern country.
You must be very loving
to fall back to matter again
accept to err and forget
your own luminous essence
your belonging to Shambhala.
Many beings from Shambhala
when they become reincarnated on earth
ask that part of their consciousness be erased
in order to be able to work on earth
like anyone of us, to do what
they must do, whatever role they take up.
This allows a whole region or country
to vibrate in a different way.
Anyone approaching also vibrates differently.
I do not have a clear-cut plausible answer
but my grand parents told me that in the past
merchant caravans used this
passage from Mongolia to Ladakh
a leg of the silk route. I think that these
merchants are the authors of the Christian writings.
No-one here is able to decipher them
And it has remained a mystery for us.
The crosses of Tangtse may originate from the travels of Nestorian Christians in the Orient
after they were banned as a result of the Council of Calcedonia in 415 A.D.
In the 12th century a curious letter first reached Pope Alexander III
and then Frederick Barbarossa.
This letter, of which several different versions exist
was signed by a Priest King, John Presbytery
who called himself the “Lord of the Three Indias”
He ruled over immense and rich territories
where people lived in peace and harmony
in a kingdom inhabited by noble subjects and wonderful creatures.
One century later, in his book The Million
the Venetian traveler Marco Polo (1254 – 1324)
described this kingdom and its conquest by Genghis Khan
some of whose court councilors were Nestorians.
For several centuries the mythical Orient kingdom fell into oblivion.
In terms of space, they physical Shambhala
is at the level of the Gobi desert
the so-called Cham desert.
Explorers would love to go there, obviously.
There is however a magnetic
barrier to ensure that only
those who are invited can
reach the physical Shambhala.
You could say, “let’s pack and go!”
but we don’t know what can happen.
In any case, one part of Shambhala
is located there.
Only one part, as it is at the same time
on three different levels.
In the first half of the 19th century
travel accounts such as that of the missionary Lazarista Evariste Huc
awakened Western curiosity for the lands along the Silk Road.
Esotericism and occultism inspired by Oriental mysticism were blooming.
In her voluminous work The Secret Doctrine
the leader of the theosophical movement, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
refers to the fabulous land of Shambhala as the original source of mysticism.
The term vril was used for the first time
by the English mason and Rosicrucian Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton
who was a member of the House of Lords.
This prolific writer was in touch with Orient-inspired esoteric groups.
In his novel, The Future Race
he describes an underground world inhabited by a superior and evolved race
who masters the powerful Vril energy.
In 1920
the Polish writer and traveler, Ferdinand Ossendowsky
published an account of his travels.
This work, titled Beasts, Men and Gods
recalls the stories of Mongolian Lamaist monks about this wondrous place.
Shambhala is the capital of Agartha
a vast continent that unfolds through a planetary network of underground galleries
and where shines a special light that gives people a long life free of disease.
We passed another door
that led us to a kind of
ridge with a tower similar
to a minaret yet a structure different
from anything known to us.
Its height was extraordinary.
You couldn’t see the top
and could only imagine it beyond a kind of fog.
At the top there was a green stone
that emitted a sound and light
that enveloped us
vivifying and energizing us.
The being who accompanied us said that
this stone was called “Gor Al”
and that it emanated the same sound
constantly for milions of years
a base note that allowed the earth
to remain in harmony.
Without that tower and that stone
Earth could lose its structure, dry out
And become a lifeless planet.
Dapa Tribe: Arians, inhabitants of Ancient India
We come from Da Hanu.
We are called Dapa.
First, our forefathers venerated a stone.
I don’t think it was a real religion
just a belief.
Gradually, Buddhist monks came to the villages
teaching the rights spiritual path
and many people became Buddhists.
Shambhala! Shambhala
I might have heard the name.
Who knows where it is?
I’ve heard about Shambhala
but I don’t know what it is.
Maybe a village nearby.
There were people from Shambhala
but I don’t know where that place is.
It crops up in religion
but we’ve never been there.
In 1939, the most infamous self-proclaimed Aryan, Adolf Hitler
dispatched an expedition to Tibet to study the direct descendents of the Arya
a Sanskrit word meaning “the noble one” or “the one above”.
Cartographic surveys and eugenic measurements were the primary official scope of this journey
but, hovering in the background were the convictions of occultist Nazism held by Himmler and by the Führer himself.
A truck on the convoy contained equipment for geomagnetic measurements.
Its purpose is said to have been the quest for a mysterious energy, the Vril
which had previously been mentioned by Blavatsky.
Karl Haushofer, a political commentator versed in Oriental esotericism
and a friend of Hitler’s, founded the Vril Society
which later became the Thule Society
whose membership included a considerable number Nazi party leaders.
Recent documents revealed Nazi plans for flying saucers powered by Vril energy.
Sightings of flying objects have been reported by Nicholas Roerich
“… something shiny, flying very high…
We bring three powerful field glasses from the tents and watch the huge spheroid body shining against the sun
clearly visible against the blue sky and moving very fast.
Afterwards we see that it sharply changes its direction… and disappears behind the Humboldt chain.
The whole camp follows the unusual apparition
and the lamas whisper: “The Sign of Shambhala!”.
A decade before the Nazi expedition, the Russian painter and anthropologist Nicholas Roerich
journeyed extensively in Central Asia, Tibet and Mongolia.
One of his travel accounts was published with the title “Shambhala the Resplendent”.
On the peaks of Sikkim
a spur of the Himalayas, a lama told us...
“Up there is the entrance to Shambhala.
Through underground passages dug in wonderful ice caverns, some deserving people
also in this lifetime
have reached that blessed place where all wisdom and splendor are united.”
There was a rock
some 10 meters high
a remarkably strong presence
that resambled a fabric, a woven stone.
Like a stone cathedral.
Without noticing it
we went inside this magical boulder
which led us to a vast universe.
I can use the word universe here
because there were galaxies
a central sun and sky.
You could breathe
as you do on Earth.
We saw beneath us hundreds of people.
Gouffre de Proumeyssac, Périgord - France
In 1947 the authoritative polar explorer
admiral Richard E. Byrd, wrote a few pages in his diary
which were subsequently kept secret by his superiors
He reported that he had seen an oasis with tropical vegetation in the ice beyond the North Pole.
An advanced civilization that inhabits in hollows of the planet
made contact with the high-ranking officer through flying objects
and gave him a message regarding the dangers inherent in the manipulation of atomic energy
and the future hardships awaiting humanity.
According to esoteric schools, these were the people of Agartha
the internal etherized continent of which Shambhala is believed to be a chief town.
. The hollow earth has its own internal sun that coincides with an entity called “king of the world”
and which is the highest level of Shambhala.
Plato, the narrator of Atlantis, also mentioned (in Critias) a “hollow earth”
and its network of caverns and underground passages.
Hundreads of people were chanting or singing.
They emitted sounds
and songs unknown to us.
They told us they were human beings
who had left the surface of the planet
12.000 years ago at the fall of Atlantis.
They were part of the
sacerdotal order on Earth
and they knew about those
terrible cataclysm.
We then were guided to doors
that led to the hollow earth.
They were imaginary doors
not phisical ones.
A change in the vibratory state made us change.
Our physical appearance took on characteristics
that were impossible on the surface of Earth
yet we were able to preserve
the knowledge of a whole era.
Shambhala is not a place.
Shambhala is a condition, a state.
A condition where all
absolutely all, sins are erased.
It is the end of all injustice
errors, mistakes.
Everything is annihilated and erased
and then, when everything is pure
purity will be affirmed
from the top down
and there will no longer
be any sin.
Shambe is a higher condition.
When one can attain high
levels of consciousness
when your own self rises
you know that
the whole universe
is nothing but consciousness.
Kali Yuga: black era, the present era of material attachment
At the end of Kaliyuga God himself will descend on this planet
simply to save the justice of the human being.
To increase morale and give courage so that we can live on this earth in righteousness.
Oh Parikshata.
It will be the time of Shambhala and of the person
who will be the father of Kalki, the last Avatar, and his name will be Vishnuyasha
who will be born in his home.
This is a volume of the Bhagavata purana
it is written in Shaaradaa characters, an ancient script, but the language is Sanskrit.
Of interest to us is
The existence of Shambo, Shambhala
nota s a geographic place
or as a part of history.
It is a concept, an idea.
This concept, it was suggested
is an image of something
that will happen and
that will manifest itself in a place
but Shambo is a mystery, a hidden path.
No-one has ever revealed
the answer to this mystery.
We are at the end of a civilization
at the end of a cycle.
This time we may reach
the etherizatione of our planet.
This does not mean that
everything will disappear
but just that what I have
experienced in astral journeys
all people on earth will also be able
to experience in the same way.
I mean all will know how to leave
their body for an astral journey
with physical sensations
as we know them on earth
but in a grander dimension.
We are generally afraid
of what we don’t know
but we are approaching
something truly extraordinary.
The Shambhala beings consider us
and have always looked upon us
as younger brothers and sisters
to whom they try to show the path and give advice.
They are here to emanate a radiance
that each one of uscan use
in order to become
little by little, like them.
Not only similar to them
but maybe better
in a different way
on the path of common love…
to reach that which we call true humanity.