lost horizon about the lost kingdom of shangri la

In China, the poet Tao Yuanming of the Jin Dynasty (265–420) described a kind of Shangri-La in his work The Tale of the Peach Blossom Spring (Chinese: 桃花源記 pinyin: Táohuā Yuán Jì). The phrase 'Shangri-La' most probably comes from the Tibetan ཞང་,'Shang' – a district of Ü-Tsang, north of Tashilhunpo' + རི, pronounced 'ri', 'Mountain' = 'Shang Mountain' + ལ, Mountain Pass, which suggests that the area is accessed to, or is named by, 'Shang Mountain Pass'.

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Khembalung is one of several beyuls ('hidden lands' similar to Shangri-La) believed to have been created by Padmasambhava in the 9th century as idyllic, sacred places of refuge for Buddhists during times of strife (Reinhard 1978). In the ancient Tibetan scriptures, existence of seven such places is mentioned as Nghe-Beyul Khembalung. The name also evokes the imagery of exoticism of the Orient. In the novel Lost Horizon, the people who live at Shangri-La are almost immortal, living years beyond the normal lifespan and only very slowly aging in appearance. Shangri-La has become synonymous with any earthly paradise, and particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia – a permanently happy land, isolated from the outside world. Hilton describes Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains.

Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by British author James Hilton.

Lost horizon about the lost kingdom of shangri la