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The Shadow of the Dalai Lama – Part I – 10. The aggressive myth of Shambhala
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10. THE AGGRESSIVE MYTH OF SHAMBHALA
The role of the ADI BUDDHA or rather of the Chakravartin is not just discussed in general terms in
the Kalachakra Tantra, rather, in the “myth of Shambhala” the Time Tantra presents concrete
political objectives. In this myth statements are made about the authority of the world monarch, the
establishment and administration of his state, the organization of his army, and about a strategic
schedule for the conquest of the planet. But let us first consider what exactly the Shambhala myth can
be understood to be.
According to legend, the historical Buddha, Shakyamuni, taught the king of Shambhala, Suchandra,
the Kalachakra Mulatantra, and initiated him into the secret doctrine. The original text contained
12,000 verses. It was later lost, but an abridged version survived. If we use the somewhat arbitrary
calendar of the Time Tantra as a basis, the encounter between Shakyamuni and Suchandra took place
in the year 878 B.C.E. The location of the instruction was Dhanyakataka close to the Mount Vulture
Heap near Rajagriha (Rajgir) in southern India. After Suchandra had asked him for instruction, the
Buddha himself assumed the form of Kalachakra and preached to him from a Lion Throne
surrounded by numerous Bodhisattvas and gods.
Suchandra reigned as the king of Shambhala, a legendary kingdom somewhere to the north of India.
He did not travel alone to be initiated in Dhanyakataka, but was accompanied by a courtly retinue of
96 generals, provincial kings and governors. After the initiation he took the tantra teaching back with
him to his empire (Shambhala) and made it the state religion there; according to other reports,
however, this only happened after seven generations.
Suchandra recorded the Kalachakra Mulatantra from memory and composed a number of
comprehensive commentaries on it. One of his successors (Manjushrikirti) wrote an abridged edition,
known as the Kalachakra Laghutantra, a compendium of the original sermon. This 1000-verse text
has survived in toto and still today serves as a central text. Manjushrikirti’s successor, King
Pundarika, composed a detailed commentary upon the Laghutantra with the name of Vimalaprabha
(‘immaculate light’). These two texts (the Kalachakra Laghutantra and the Vimalaprapha) were
brought back to India in the tenth century by the Maha Siddha Tilopa, and from there reached Tibet,
the “Land of Snows” a hundred years later. But only fragments of the original text, the Kalachakra
Mulatantra, have survived. The most significant fragment is called Sekkodesha and has been
commented upon the Maha Siddha Naropa.
Geography of the kingdom of Shambhala
The kingdom of Shambhala, in which the Kalachakra teaching is practiced as the state religion, is
surrounded by great secrecy, just as is its first ruler, Suchandra. Then he is also regarded as an
incarnation of the Bodhisattva Vajrapani, the “Lord of Occult Knowledge”. For centuries the Tibetan