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Shalabala

akira

13:59 / 12.11.03

Shalabala - What does it mean? Heard it mentioned before.

illmatic

14:23 / 12.11.03

Don't you mean Shambala? Mythic city of golden pagodas, fountain of eternal youth and wizened old Tibetans controlling the world in the Himalayas? I wondered if these sort of stories had their origins in stories about the first trips by Westerners into Tibet.

Hieronymus

15:01 / 12.11.03

Shambhala is also a Tibetan tradition created by the founder of the university I go to, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Personally I'm not a fan of it as its very New Agey and caters to rich Westerners. But it is very much based on Suhkavati/ Pure Land/ "enlightened society" Buddhism.

_Boboss

15:34 / 12.11.03

yurm - one of the primeval hippy shops in my home town was called Shambhala. think it's gone now thank goddess but they folk sure sold a lot of shitty crystyals to a lot of silly tourists. the first syllable of shambhala is...

LVX23

18:13 / 12.11.03

See also Shambhala Publications, a great resource for Tibetan Buddhist books.

grant

20:29 / 12.11.03

Shalla Bal!

To Zenn-la! For the love of Shalla Bal!!

SHALLA BAL!

akira

21:53 / 12.11.03

Nice. Silver Surfer rulz.

Quantum

10:25 / 13.11.03

Isn't it from the muppets? Shalabala doo-doo do doo-do, Shalabala doo-doo do-do...

macrophage

12:14 / 13.11.03

There's a town called Bala in Wales I went to a free festy there 1991.
I've got 2 of the American Shamballah books - one on Zen and the other on Kundalini. Makes me want to razor all me hair off and run off to the countryside to my rural retreat and meditate on the social interactions of the local wildlife - as if!!!!

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