Shambhala Publications

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Shambhala Publications is an independent publishing company based in Boston, Massachusetts. According to the company, it specializes in "books that present creative and conscious ways of transforming the individual, the society, and the planet". Many of its books deal with Buddhism or related topics. It is named for Shambhala, a mystical kingdom hidden somewhere beyond the snowpeaks of the Himalayas in Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Among its major authors are Chögyam Trungpa, Thomas Cleary, Ken Wilber, Fritjof Capra, Pema Chodron, John Stevens, and Natalie Goldberg.

Shambhala was founded in 1969 by Sam Bercholz and Michael Fagan, in Berkeley, California. Its books are distributed by Random House. In 1976 Shambhala moved to Boulder to be near the Naropa Institute, and in 1986 moved to Boston.

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