In 1983, a man named Tenzin Dorje set out from his remote monastery near Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh. He wasn’t a scholar, nor a famous lama — just a simple monk in his fifties, weathered by Himalayan winters and softened by decades of meditation. What made Tenzin special was his unshakable belief that Shambhala wasn’t just a myth. For him, it was real — not in the way maps define, but in the way the soul recognizes truth.Ever since he was a young boy, he’d heard tales of Shambhala whispered by elders and visiting yogis. They spoke of a hidden