Shambhala

About this book

High in the mountains of Central Asia, Nicholas Roerich searches for traces of Shambhala, a legendary realm associated with Buddhist traditions and later Western esotericism.

His account combines landscape, travel impressions, folklore and speculative spiritual history. The remote passes and monasteries become part of a story about hidden wisdom and the destinies of civilisations. Roerich's own mystical expectations shape what he reports, and that is part of the reading experience: the traveller and the seeker are never entirely separate.