Long before Hollow Earth diagrams, polar openings and subterranean masters, Shambhala already existed in Buddhist tradition as a hidden northern kingdom connected with the Kalachakra teachings and a future cycle of conflict and renewal. Centuries later, Western occultists placed hidden masters there, explorers searched Central Asia for traces of it, and Shambhala began merging with Agartha and the world beneath the surface. When did a sacred kingdom become an underground civilisation?
