Shambhala the Resplendent

<p>Born at St. Petersburg in 1874 Nicholas Roerich was a precocious polymath excelling at painting poetry archaeology anthropology and botany.   In adulthood Roerich began a life-long fascination with eastern mysticism founding (with his wife Helena) his own school of ‘Agni Yoga’ in 1920 and embarking six year’s later on an epic five-year expedition through Chinese Turkestan Altai Mongolia and Tibet to study the religions and culture of the region and to search for the fabled city of Shambhala.</p><p>Hidden between towering snow-covered peaks Shambhala is said to be earth’s central chakra a point of balance between this world and the invisible realms a place where adepts and ascended masters watch over the evolution of humanity and chart its future course.  By the end of his expedition having faced countless dangers and privations Roerich was certain that he had found clear proof of Shambhala’s existence.  As he himself said “We know the greatness of Shambhala. We know the reality of this indescribable realm on earth... Shambhala is connected with the heavenly one.  And in this link the two worlds are unified."</p>