Some say its in Tibet.
Some think its in Nepal near Mustang.
I have seen some places that would easily pass for the "Shangriland".
Always wondered what if Shangrila really existed.......
and looked like this
(Wouldn't be a bad idea for a date)

It is near Mansarobar...
it is also called Siddhashram and has other names as well.
;-)

Mansarobar?Isn't that the lake near kailash where our bhole baba performed his self- help techniques.
So this is shangrila?
I doubt it....

nice..i can't wait to go back

This slightly takes me close to my imagination of shangrila....
Hushpuppy:Good luck on your "shangri-ploration"...

The Search for Shangri-LA
A Journey into Tibetan History
Author: Charles Allen
Publisher: Trafalgar Square

British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
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My limited knowledge about the genesis of the this utopian romantic concept of blissland.I look forward to read the book that you have suggested and probably watch "The Lost Horizon"
Thanks Bathroomcoffee.

Moola/Mooli iZen:

Kasto timi pani??? Khaali Sajhaland maa aera ghari Shangri-la khojchau ta ghari Mokshya.
Hattt, mula/muli, tyo pani kahin sambhav huncha ta- tyas maathi pani Saajhaland. Nahasauna yaar.

Saajhaland maa aera Moksha, Mukti, Utopia hoina baru yaso thita/thiti ko khoja na, hau, pravuji.....

Tara jay, hujur ko bisaya ko sandarva maa yaso kehi lekhna man laagyo-

"Shangril-la is where the heart is"

Has anybody have a chance to read a yatra-nibandha by Ramesh Vikal on his yatra to Gosainkunda ? The title escapes me, however, it has Sangri-La in it and, as a matter of fact, the yatra was indeed inspired by some English lady's question about Sangri-La to him during one of his tours to Belayat, if I remembered the preface of the book correctly.

Moola/Mooli iZen:

Kasto timi pani??? Khaali Sajhaland maa aera ghari Shangri-la khojchau ta ghari Mokshya.
Hattt, mula/muli, tyo pani kahin sambhav huncha ta- tyas maathi pani Saajhaland. Nahasauna yaar.<------------Quest
If you were trying to humorously carrot-ize me.I am a mula:)..end of confusion 1.Hai ta?

I am not hunting moksha at Sajhaland.Simply asking for opinions and thanks for your stopping by and carrotizing me re kya:).
Sajha is a phoolbari.I find more lotus than weed re kya:)
Don't listen to me.I am crazy these days.Well timile bhane ko think ho.Ani timro Quest ke ni:)
Romantic mokshya.You sound like one:)

Shangrila ta still exists re, tara taken re... Naxal/Tangal ma basthi!! Got the latest news that she got married re... Harke dai ko choro Raaju Sanga. Back in the Mithun days he used to perform breakdance in the back of the bhagwatibahal, aba Shangrila le break dine hola ni Dance gardai, Raju ko karang... Haa!! That would be the day.

iZen-citiZen Shalgam (Mula ta parhai jaaosh...):

Dukha man nagarala iZen Bro' (Shalgam bhanera sambodhan garera ni....) . I knew it, from your writing, you definitley belong to Mula not Muli. Malai laagcha timi jhan khatraz Organi Mula hau.

Anyway, I am not trying to humurously carrot-iZing or weeding out of Lotus in a 4 Zaat 36 Varna Saajha Foolbaari- rather detouring my daily route to daily Mukti freeway right here in fav. Sajha.

By the way, is that a Quest Effect or what??? You are correlating me with a Romantic Mokshya now: however, you are on your utmost quest to find a Shangri-La or Nirvana before here in Sajha. Or is it your version of daily detour????

As you admit that you are behaving bizzare these days, that is a sign of a normal being. I like the person who is kinda honest rather than those chameleons.

Times up....!!!!

Aajalai yati nai mero "Detour de Sajha."

Yes, it does and people have found it - in their minds. Shangrilla is a state of mind and you don't need to go too far away to find it :)

To good life.

Agree 100% with Cyaptain Haddock. Thats the one and only answer.

Quest said:Dukha man nagarala iZen Bro' (Shalgam bhanera sambodhan garera ni....) . I knew it, from your writing, you definitley belong to Mula not Muli. Malai laagcha timi jhan khatraz Organi Mula hau.
>I will take that as a compliment.
Q:Anyway, I am not trying to humurously carrot-iZing or weeding out of Lotus in a 4 Zaat 36 Varna Saajha Foolbaari- rather detouring my daily route to daily Mukti freeway right here in fav. Sajha.
>So you to confess that sajha is mukti freeway.Glad to discover a like minded comrade.But I have to admit I just started crawling here..
Q:As you admit that you are behaving bizzare these days, that is a sign of a normal being. I like the person who is kinda honest rather than those chameleons.
>sadly,thats the sad reality:)

Captain haddock's answer is just a philosophical answer.
Sangrila does exist but neither in physical nor in mind.
It is said to exist near mansarobar but is in a diff dimension.
So the best way to access it is through astral body.
Its not only imagination or state of mind.
anywho... seekers will learn more...eventually find it...
when there is a will, there are ways...

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I did a little wikipedia search and it gave me this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangrila

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

Several possible places in the Buddhist Himalaya between north India and Western China have been suggested as the actual basis for Hilton's legend. In China, Tao Qian of the Jin Dynasty described a Shangri-La in his Story of the Peach Blossom Valley, for example. The legendary Kun Lun Mountains offer other possible Shangri-La valleys. There are also a number of modern Shangri-La pseudo-legends that have developed since 1933 in the wake of the novel and the film made from it.

Today, various places claim the title, such as parts of northwestern Yunnan province, including the tourist destination of Lijiang. Places like Sichuan and Tibet also claim the real Shangri-la was in its territory. In 2001, Tibet Autonomous Region put forward a proposal that the three regions optimise all Shangri-la tourism resources and promote them as one. After failed attempts to establish a China Shangri-la Ecological Tourism Zone in 2002 and 2003, government representatives of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces and Tibet Autonomous Region signed a declaration of cooperation in 2004.

In Chinese, Shangri-La is translated as ??????? (pinyin sh??wa??t??oyu??n; WG shih-wai-t'ao-y??an; literally 'the peach river-source away from the world'), from Tao Qian's work. In Hong Kong, it is transcribed as ?????-, as is the hotel chain of the same name (see other uses of Shangri-La).

In the beginning of World War II against Japan, the United States flew most of its bombers from mainland China. In propaganda, they claimed that they started them from Shangri-La. Later, one of the aircraft carriers used in the Pacific ocean was named USS Shangri-La.

Shangri-La was also the original name President Franklin D. Roosevelt chose for the new presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountain Park in 1942, before it was renamed Camp David by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1953.

Ojai, California is said to have been the setting for Shangri-La in the 1937 film Lost Horizon.

It is also said to have inspired Carl Barks when he wrote the Disney cartoon 'The Land of Trala La' published in 1954

How we want to perceive Shangri-La shall determine whether or not it exists.

An absolute utopia; a state of nirvana - tranquility, a place where happiness resides, where sorrow has no place, where joy knows no boundaries; does such place even exists?

I do not know any place that resembles the literal designation of Shangri-La, nonetheless, more importantly for me is: will I ever experience such a state of being?

I say - yes - and I have. I have found Shangri-La within myself many a times. Say-like, in that last drag of smoke I inhaled, when my mother was declared stable, those rare occasion when I walked my little sister to school just to hear her talk, when I earned my first degree, when I experienced love reciprocated, the calmness she bestowed on me that I felt, knowing I'd always have her; vice versa. When I listened to magic sipping my "holy-water" in some crowded bar, or for that matter a warm snuggle inside my quilt on a nippy winter morning, and those sound of rain drops kissing the earth that sounds akin to the Beethoven's master-piece.

I have courted Shangri-La on each of these occasions. She appeared as lovely as ever; at times lovelier than other. Mmmmm. . . how I can use the last one for now.

The premises I threw up there are meant to draw one conclusion, that being; Shangri-La is not out there, it is within us. I humbly refuse to agree upon the argument of any learned ones that there is such a Shangri-La, as in one size fits all. If it exists at all, then it has to be within ourselves, for each of us to perceive the way we experience it.

And if two people can actually find one Shangri-La, ah! could there be more beautiful a sight to behold?

I bet each one of you have found your Shangri-La, ditto like mine albeit with (possible) slight digress.

Now, if we are talking about a Shangri-La, in bodily form, a place, and picture; I know where it exists for me. I would tell you if only I could see my home. Yep that's my Shangri-La. It exists. And guess what, I do not need a picturesque depiction to confirm it.

It is there, I know it is!

In my heart - I have millions of Shangri-La(s).

IndisGuise:)

Well said IndisGuise,
But wait a minute you relate state of nirvana with shangri-la.Shangri-la isn't it just a place with some natural wonders.Or is it a state of mind?
iZen

Correct me if I am wrong. Is not a Shanrila suppose to be heaven on earth? If so, any place could be shangrila. It depends upon the a way look at it. For me, its where I find peace, happiness, tranqulity.

peace