![]() ![]() The word also evokes the imagery of exoticism of the Orient. In the novel Lost Horizon, the people who live at Shangri-La are almost immortal, living years beyond the normal lifespan and only very slowly aging in appearance. Shangri-La has become synonymous with any earthly paradise but particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia - a permanently happy land, isolated from the outside world. Hilton describes Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. This word was also used by British author James Hilton in his 1933 novel "Lost Horizon", which won popularity at a time when the Second World War made people disappointed with the real life. Shangri-La means the sun and moon in heart in Tibetan words that has been described in ancient Tibetan literature information 1000 years ago. ![]()
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