title: Transcending Time: An Explanation of the Kalachakra Six-Session Guruyoga
author: His Holiness the Dalai Lama
description: Gen Lamrimpa was a Tibetan Buddhist scholar and contemplative who has devoted more than thirty-five years of his life to solitary retreat in the Himalayas, including twenty-one years outside Dharamsala, India, where he died in 2003.
zlib_text: Victor & Victoria Trimonti 
   
  THE SHAMBHALA MYTH  
  AND THE WEST 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
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  THE SHAMBHALA MYTH AND THE WEST 
  The Shadow of the Dalai Lama – Part II © Victor & Victoria Trimondi 
  The spread of the Shambhala myth and the Kalachakra Tantra in the West has a history 
  of its own. It does definitely not first begin with the expulsion of the lamas from Tibet (in 
  1959) and their diaspora across the whole world, but rather commences at the beginning of 
  the twentieth century in Russia with the religious political activity of an ethnic Buriat by 
  the name of Agvan Dorjiev. 
   
  The Shambhala missionary Agvan Dorjiev 
  Even in his youth, Agvan Dorjiev (1854–1938), who trained as a monk in Tibet, was 
  already a very promising individual. For this reason he was as a young man entrusted with 
  caring for the Thirteenth Dalai Lama. The duties of the Buriat included among other things 
  the ritual cleansing of the body and bedroom of the god-king, which implie