Happy New Year. Do you know Distinguished Prof J.Elverskog? A Dallas University Uighur/Mongol specialist. He found Shambhala!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy New Year.

Do you know Distinguished Prof Johan Elverskog?

He's an Uighur and Mongol specialist in Dallas at the Southern Methodist University.

He has found Shambhala.

[link to www.americanacademy.de (secure)]

Please pass this on to all university students, and the world.

Excerpt:

"Buddhists recognized that the Mongols had turned the Shambala myth into reality."

Here is the full excerpt, in it's context:

"Why would Tibetans of the thirteenth and fourteenth century believe that the Uighur Buddhist kingdom was the sacred land of Shambala?

The answer is to be found in the Mongols, who ruled from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and who famously created the world’s largest empire, a geographic expanse that stretched from Korea to Hungary. Beginning with Khubilai Khan, who reigned from 1260 to 1294 CE, the Mongol rulers of China also famously became Tibetan Buddhists. The same was the case with the Mongol rulers of Iran, the Il-Khanids, founded by Khubilai Khan’s brother, Hülegü (1218–1265 CE). Hülegü built three Buddhist temples in the Il-Khanid domains: one at his summer pastures, in the mountains of Armenia, and two in Iran at Khoy and Maragha. Three of his successors—Abaqa (r. 1265–82 CE), Arghun (r. 1284–91 CE), and Gaikhatu (r. 1291–95 CE)—also supported the Dharma. Gaikhatu’s investiture ceremony, for example, included a tantric initiation, and Arghun held debates at his court that pitted Tibetan and Uighur Buddhists against local Muslim scholars.

Although Hülegü’s killing of the last Abbasid Caliph and the Mongol destruction of Baghdad, in 1258 CE, continues to define Islamic historiography, it is rarely acknowledged that after this event Iran was ruled by a Buddhist state for almost forty years. Indeed, Muslim historians were “mortified into silence,” as German historian Thomas Raff has observed, by the overwhelming presence of Buddhists in the Muslim heartland.

This reaction was not the case in the Buddhist world, of course. Instead, Buddhists recognized that the Mongols had turned the Shambala myth into reality. They also recognized that it was the Buddhist Uighurs—the “steppe intelligentsia” of the Mongol Empire—who had played a key role in doing so. Thus for Tibetans of the fourteenth century, it made perfect sense to believe that the Uighur Buddhist kingdom was Shambala—and that it was clearly worthy of a pilgrimage.

Last Edited by Dragpo Korlochen on 01/20/2023 04:48 AM