There Shambhala is a whole land, not just a village, and there will be a king that comes to India from there and gets the Kalachakra teachings from the Buddha and brings them back to Shambhala. Kalachakra means the “wheel of time” or “cycles of time,” and there we find a variation of what we had in the Hindu source. After he destroys them, there will be a new golden age, and that will be the end of the kaliyuga.Ī number of centuries later, we find Shambhala again, in Buddhist literature, specifically in a group of material known as the Kalachakra texts. He’s called Kalki, and he will destroy an invading group that is bent on destruction.
It says that the eighth avatar, or incarnation, of Vishnu will be born in a city called Shambhala. There it speaks about the different ages, the four ages of the world system, ending with the kaliyuga (“age of disputes”).
We first find it in an early Hindu text, The Vishnu Purana, from the 4th century CE. It originally comes from both Hindu and Buddhist sources. When we hear the word Shambhala, it conjures up all sorts of romantic images and associations for many people.
