It was, she said, “once a fair island in the inland Sea of the Tibetan plateau, now as fair a land, an oasis surrounded by barren deserts and salt lakes” (CW IV:263). BLAVATSKY says it is located in the Gobi Desert. Theosophical literature speaks of Shamballa as the abode of the great hierarchy of adepts. In the pre-Buddhist Bon religion which exists to this day, tradition states that Shamballa is part of the Olmolungring country, which is depicted in a square diagram divided into three regions, the center most region of which is Mt. Tibetan Buddhist tradition points to Shamballa as the source of their revered Kālachakra system of tantra yoga.
In the PURUŚAS, it is the place where the next KALKI-AVATĀR will come from. A legendary place in central Asia, usually written “Shamballa,” where great spiritual adepts are said to reside.
