Where did "shangri-la" originate from?

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so far i got this: Western home of Taoist deities. Supposedly a place where there is no sickness, wars, or death.
www-acad.sheridanc.on.ca/~gaverche/paths/glossary/define_list4.html

Eden: any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the novel, Lost Horizon, written by British writer James Hilton in 1933. In it, "Shangri-La" is a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Himalaya. Shangri-La has become synonymous with any earthly paradise but particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia - a permanently happy land, isolated from the outside world. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangri-La

i'd like to know where this word, or phrase, originated from.

Answer 1

The mythical land of Shangri-La is the novelist James Hilton's fictional account of the legendary Tibetan paradise Shambala. In Hilton's 1933 novel, Lost Horizon, he changes the name of the paradise to Shangri-La. This lost Tibetan paradise is a valley cut off from the world. The wisdom of the human race is being conserved there against the threat of imminent catastrophe. Hilton's novel was turned into a hit Hollywood movie and the name Shangri-La came to mean a lost paradise.

The legend of this lost valley is one of the most ancient Tibetan myths, and one of the most striking myths of a sacred landscape, a landscape that inspires stories itself. Traditionally, Shambala is located in the Himalayas, in the remotest part of Tibet, on a high plateau, surrounded by a ring of mountain peaks.

The myth of a lost Tibetan paradise came to the notice of Europeans in the 1580s, when travellers to the court of the court of the Moghul Emperor Akbar heard strange and wondrous tales of a remote Himalayan world. Although the story is told in a Buddhist text and is considered Tibetan, the tale seems to have been recorded first in India in AD 962. The tale is that there is a land behind the Himalayas full of peace and harmony where an isolated people live in accordance with Buddhist precepts preparing for the day when the world will be ready to live in peace. The kingdom is in the shadow of a white crystal mountain, approachable only through a ring of peaks. Next to the mountain are a lake and a palace. Here the wisdom of humanity is conserved, ready to save the world when needed.

The present Dalai Lama says this about Shambala:

Nowadays, no one knows where Shambala is. Although it is said to exist, people cannot see it, or communicate with it in an ordinary way. Some people say it is located in another world, others that it is an ideal land, a place of the imagination. Some say it was a real place, which cannot now be found. Some believe there are openings into that world which may be accessed from this. Whatever the truth of that, the search for Shambala traditionally begins as an outer journey that becomes a journey of inner exploration and discovery.

Today, Shangri-La is seen both as a place, and as an era of enlightened consciousness. The Tibetans say that the need to find paradise elsewhere is it what keeps us from having it. Wherever Shangri-La is, the search for it continues.

Answer 2

Believe this or not but Shanghai-la. Is a miss-pronunciation of the word Shang-hi. And that word came into existence when some Europeans and Americans were trapped hi in the mountain of China and were saved by some monks........ That just so happen to have a religious retreat in the area that they were trapped in............ And yes they did make several trips back there and so did many others. And you can read all about it at your local library or on your home computer with just a little research. I did so I know that you can. For I have read that very same story several time........ When I stumbles on to the work by Jame Hilton. And all of this was mention by him in an obscure novelette............................. Also that legendary place where people never get ill or die was never found by a Westerner adventurer.......................

Answer 3

The story of Shangri-La is based on the concept of Shambhala, a mystical city in Tibetan Buddhist tradition

Answer 4

by the fashion in accordance to the “Morris Dictionary of be conscious and word Origins” by William and Mary Morris(Harper Collins, lengthy island, 1977, 1988). ROGER -- "contained in the that technique of 'sure, O.ok., I comprehend you -- is voice code for the letter R. it truly is area of the 'able, Baker, Charlie' code favourite and used by all radiophone operators contained in the amenities contained in the forties - 50's. From the earliest days of on the spot verbal replace, the Morse code letter R (dit-dah-dit) has been used to point 'O.ok. -- understood.' So 'Roger' change into the logical voice-telephone equivalent." also from “I listen u.s. speaking” by Stuart Berg Flexner (Von Nostrand Reinhold Co., lengthy island, 1976).“Roger! A code be conscious used by pilots to signify ‘your message received and understood’ in accordance to radio communications; later it got here into accepted use to signify ‘all good, ok.’ Roger change into the radio communications morse code be conscious for the letter R, which to that end represented the be conscious ‘received.’ ‘Roger Wilco’ change into the answer to ‘Roger’ from the unique transmitter of the radio message, which potential ‘I easily have received your message that you've received my message and am signing off.” Wilco implies "i am going to conform"