I found source of Ganges: Mt. Kailash

• Jamyang Tour travels to holy Tibet; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

The Cosmic Buddha Cave? (Ancient Aliens)

Underground alien connections: Esoteric encounters | Ancient Aliens

There's nothing under us but dark dirt

(HISTORY) May 15, 2025:  Enlightenment by spelunking? Welcome to the Hollow Earth civilization of Agartha (the original Mexican Atzlan or European Atlantis?) Is that you, Ākāśagarbha Bodhisattva (Kokūzō Bosatsu)? Shingon (Esoeric) Buddhism is closely related to Vedic Hinduism.

Shingon (真言宗, Shingon-shū, "True Word/Mantra School") is one of the major schools of Buddhism in Japan and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages in East Asian Buddhism. It is a form of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism and is sometimes called Tōmitsu (東密 literally, "Esoteric [Buddhism] of Tō-ji") [1].

The word shingon is the Japanese reading of the Chinese word 真言 (zhēnyán) [2], which is the translation of the Sanskrit word mantra, which means something like "thought instrument" (Japanese "true words" or om'yomi).

The Zhēnyán lineage was founded in China (circa 7th–8th centuries) by Indian vajrācāryas ("esoteric teachers") like Śubhakarasiṃha, Vajrabodhi, and Amoghavajra. 

These esoteric teachings would later flourish in Japan under the auspices of a Buddhist monk named Kūkai (空海, 774–835), who traveled to Tang China and received these esoteric transmissions from a Chinese master named Huiguo (746–805).

Kūkai established his tradition at Mount Kōya (in Wakayama Prefecture), which remains the central pilgrimage center of Shingon Buddhism. More

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• 3. Forbidden Caves 2 12:05
• 4. Underground Aliens 2

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Tibet-Nepal's: Lost Buddhist Caves of Mustang

National Geographic via Wudu1982; Ashley Wells, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly


Buddhist Lost Cave Temples

A team of climbers and scientists enter the long-hidden chambers of human carved Buddhist caves in Mustang, Nepal (previously a hidden part of Tibet), perched high on cliff faces in the Himalayas.

Was this the fabled Shangri-La? What the team finds is far beyond their expectations. Tibet was once a shamanic Bon-Buddhist empire with its capital in Lhasa, extending from Bangladesh to Mongolia. That it should have secret outposts like this is no surprise.

Tibetan dialect "Mustang" alive in the US (audio)

Alina Simone (PRI's The World, 6-30-16); Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly

Himalayan Mustang District, now a part of Nepal, formerly Tibet (Jmhullot/wiki)

Buddhist prayer flags fly throughout the Himalayas: Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, India...

Nawang Tsering Gurungat at Diversity Square (Alina Simone)

There's a Tibetan dialect called "Mustang," and it's staying alive in the US

Stepping off the train in Jackson Heights, Queens [New York], on a recent Sunday, Alina Simone discovered two groups doing sonic battle in a courtyard ringed with shops:

There was a Tibetan religious service led by crimson-robed Buddhist monks versus a "Bangladeshi Americans for Bernie Sanders" rally. Later, looking up the name of the place, it's Diversity Square.

 

It's no surprise, given this is the epicenter of the most diverse neighborhood in America.

 

More than 130 different languages are spoken in Jackson Heights, but many of them are from places so small, so remote, they get lost in the commotion. Take Mustang [now claimed by Nepal], a dialect of Tibetan with only 7,500 speakers worldwide — 800 of whom live in the US.

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Dialects like Mustang — also referred to as “Mustangi” — are waging quiet fights here for time, attention, and survival. What exactly are they fighting against?

We could say it's the pursuit of the American Dream itself. Given the challenges of starting a new life halfway across the world, even when a language is spoken at home, English is often what kids focus on learning.

 

As language activist Nawang Gurung explains: “Parents work 12 to 15 hours in restaurants, nanny jobs, as nail technicians....Now if parents talk to their kids in Mustangi dialect, kids are gonna respond in English.”

 

Nawang has become a custodian of Mustang here in New York City. “Language represents your identity,” he explains. “Who you are. If the Mustangi dialect vanishes, it's slowly gonna mean, it has a totally new identity.”

 

Pema, Domaseri, and Domaseri at Diversity Square every weekend attending Mustang Sunday. Even in a place as diverse as Jackson Heights, it can be difficult to explain where it is they come from, the three say (Alina Simone).

“When we say Mustang, not many people get it. And when we say Tibet, ‘Oh! That's China, basically.”

 

These new identities are being forged by families who are part of a massive migration from the Himalayas, accelerated by last year's major earthquake in Nepal and a downturn in tourism. According to Nawang, the result for mountain people like the Mustang has been “a rapid population decline compared to other regions in Nepal."

 

His fear is that as the sparse population of Mustang speakers scatters, soon there won’t be anyone to learn from. So together with the Endangered Language Alliance here in New York, he is working to create a kind of Mustang Library of Congress. It’s part of a project called Voices of the Himalayas, a digital archive that will preserve Himalayan oral history, folklore and song, handed down over hundreds of years. More

Himalayan lore: Inner Earth "Agartha"

(Agarthissml) What is the legend of the underworld realm of Agartha, and what mysteries surround it? 

Presented by Astrambiente Lazio; created by Valeria Temperini, Michela Rosarno, and Valerio Panfoli, in cooperation with Adriana Bisirri, professor and principal of the SSML Gregorio VII University in Rome.

"Cave People of the Himalaya" (video)

Dhr. Seven and Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; National Geographic (natgeo.com)

Central Asian Maitreya Buddha sitting high in the Himalayas (DevonPucel/flickr.com)

 Everest sits high in the Himalayas as climate change melts glaciers (livescience.com).

In the 1990s, a high Himalayan cave in Upper Mustang, Nepal, was discovered that contained 42 ancient people, buried on wooden bunk beds. American archaeologist, Dr. Mark Aldenderfer, believes there must be more burial caves. The challenge is how to find them, deep within cliff faces in the cold and inhospitable environment of the Himalaya. He needs the world’s best technical climbers to do the searching. More

Shangri-la Found (archeology)

Mythical Shangri-la may have been found
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Shangri-La Found by Mountaineer

Secrets of Shangri-La lectures (Benaroya Hall, Seattle)

(Seattle Times) Did Shangri-La — the mythical, Himalayan city first mentioned by a 5th century Chinese poet as a utopia for Buddhists — actually exist? Peter Athans, a much-respected, Bainbridge Island-based moun-taineer who has reached the summit of Mt. Everest seven times, may know the answer. In 2007, Athans explored the hidden, ancient kingdom of Mustang, in Nepal. His "National Geographic Live!" presentation, "Secrets of Shangri-La," takes place at Benaroya Hall [on April 13-14, 2009]. Q&A and more>>

"I'll be speaking about three expeditions I led over the last two years into Nepal's remote and exotic Kingdom of Mustang. Mustang was for many years closed to foreigners, earning it the moniker 'the highest and most forbidden kingdom in the world.' The current monarch is the 25th in a lineage that has existed for more than 600 years. It is one of the remaining few Himalayan Buddhist kingdoms."

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• TV historian Michael Wood argues that legendary "Shangri-La" is the abandoned city of Tsaparang, which was once home to the Kings of Guge in modern Tibet.