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Shangri-La
Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel ''Lost Horizon'' by British author James Hilton. Hilton describes Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. Shangri-La has become synonymous with any earthly paradise, and particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia – a permanently happy land, isolated from the outside world. In the novel ''Lost Horizon'', the people who live at Shangri-La are almost immortal, living years beyond the normal lifespan and only very slowly aging in appearance. The word also evokes the imagery of exoticism of the Orient. In the ancient Tibetan scriptures, existence of seven such places is mentioned as ''Nghe-Beyul Khembalung''. Khembalung is one of several ''beyuls'' ("hidden lands" similar to Shangri-La) believed to have been created by Padmasambhava in the 9th century as idyllic, sacred places of refuge for Buddhists during times of strife (Reinhard 1978).
Some scholars believe that the Shangri-La story owes a literary debt to Shambhala, a mythical kingdom in Tibetan Buddhist tradition, which was sought by Eastern and Western explorers.
==Etymology==
The phrase "Shangri-La" most probably comes from the Tibetan ',"Shang" – a district of Ü-Tsang, north of Tashilhunpo〔Chandra Das – Tibetan English Dictionary〕" + ', pronounced "ri", "Mountain" = "Shang Mountain" + ', Mountain Pass, which suggests that the area is accessed to, or is named by, "Shang Mountain Pass".
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