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title: "Utopian Thought in Tibetan Buddhism: A Survey of the Śambhala Concept and its Sources"
authors:
- "Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz"
external_url: "https://buddhism.lib.ntu.edu.tw/en/search/search_detail.jsp?seq=295058&comefrom=authorinfo"
drive_links:
- "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lum1F8clFY_OAP3TE6_NzG9WesAlI7DQ/view?usp=sharing"
course: tibetan
tags:
- mythology
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Let's go with ideology instead, as it has some ramifications for the interplay between religion and political mythology

year: 1992
journal: "Studies in Central and East Asian Religions"
publisher: "Brill"
address: "Leiden"
volume: 5
pages: "78--96"
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> Early texts, like the Vimalaprabhā or the Lam yig of Man luṅ pa, do not describe
Śambhala as a paradise on earth. They rather stress the spiritual qualities of the country
and its inhabitants. Later works, especially the smon lam, the most popular texts on
Śambhala among the Tibetan and Mongolian Buddhist lay people, concentrate on the
paradisiac nature of the hidden kingdom.

DescripThe paper explores how the Tibetan Buddhist vision of Śambhala functions as both a utopian ideal and political symbolism. It traces the myth’s evolution from spiritual paradise to political metaphor, compares it with European utopian traditions, and cites key Tibetan and Mongolian sources.tion
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Descrip........tion

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