geographic survey
The fabled kingdom, transformed into Shangri-La,
is still a vivid and most real ideal
comprising all the ancient Buddhist kingdoms of the Himalayas,
like Nepal and Sikkim, Bhutan and Tibet, Ladakh and Zanskar,
Lo, Mustang and even Kashmir and Mongolia,
once a perfect and united realm,
the capital of which was never found;
but people say there still are endless caves
under the mountains, leading to the sacred spot
from where once all this perfect and harmonious world
was ruled dynamically by the first of Buddhas;
and the dream has never nor will ever die,
like some kind of Asiatic Messianism,
for all who live here, though, a most concrete conception,
no ideal in no time ever being too impossible, too good
nor too impractical to once be realized.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2006-11-16 at 08:04
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Shamballah
The fabled kingdom, transformed into Shangri-La,
is still a vivid and most real ideal
comprising all the ancient Buddhist kingdoms of the Himalayas,
like Nepal and Sikkim, Bhutan and Tibet, Ladakh and Zanskar,
Lo, Mustang and even Kashmir and Mongolia,
once a perfect and united realm,
the capital of which was never found;
but people say there still are endless caves
under the mountains, leading to the sacred spot
from where once all this perfect and harmonious world
was ruled dynamically by the first of Buddhas;
and the dream has never nor will ever die,
like some kind of Asiatic Messianism,
for all who live here, though, a most concrete conception,
no ideal in no time ever being too impossible, too good
nor too impractical to once be realized.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
Read 410 times
Written on 2006-11-16 at 08:04
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