Shambhala | Csoma de Körös

Csoma de Körös  was a full-blown eccentric who devoted his entire life to the pursuit of arcane knowledge. As the Russian theosophist and Fairy Godmother of the New Age Movement Madame Helena Blavatsky noted, “a poor Hungarian, Csoma de Körös, not only without means, but a veritable beggar, set out on foot for Tibet, through unknown and dangerous countries, urged only by the love of learning and the eager wish to shed light on the historical origin of his nation. The result was that inexhaustible mines of literary treasures were discovered.” Among the written works unearthed were the first descriptions of the Buddhist realm of Shambhala to reach the Occident.

See: Eccentric Hungarian Wanderer–Scholar Csoma de Körös and the Legend of Shambhala