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Shambhala - ein mythisches Königreich im Himalaya, ein Symbol für Weisheit, Harmonie und höchste spirituelle Vollendung. Doch woher stammt diese geheimnisvolle Vorstellung wirklich, und warum hat sie in Europa eine so außergewöhnliche Wirkung entfaltet?Francis T. Jenkins zeichnet die faszinierende Reise Shambhalas von seinen Ursprüngen im buddhistischen Kalachakra-Tantra bis hin zur Transformation in eine westliche Utopie nach. Mit historischer Präzision und erzählerischer Klarheit enthüllt er, wie sich spirituelle Lehren, politische Ideen und esoterische Strömungen zu einem Mythos...

"He drew aside the covering which concealed the face of the subject...guess, if you can, the horror, the astonishment, when, in the countenance of the deceased, I beheld my own mother "
The worthy doctor Urbino di Cavetti is kidnapped and led blindfolded to the bedside of a young woman. A mysterious nobleman offers him an immense fortune if he will consent to cure her...of her life Horrified, Urbino refuses to murder her, and must flee his native Venice with his family to avoid the powerful stranger's vengeance.
They flee to the isolated Castello della Torvida, which local peasants...

"The sound approached towards him -- the chains rattled vehemently; scarcely had he sprung from his chair, and seized his sword, ere the door flew open, and a spectre, whose arms and legs were fastened with heavy chains, with a naked body covered with wounds, from which the blood still seemed to gush, with clotted hair and eyes dripping with blood, rendered visible by a flame which burnt on the crown of its head, replete with purple gashes, stood before him."


In The Castle of Ollada, the first novel by Gothic master Francis Lathom, young Altador seeks to solve the mystery of...