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Each disc was incised with grooves spiralling out to the perimeter which were found to be composed of closely written characters that spelled out a message. Later, in 1962, four scientists led by Japanese professor Tsum Um Nui of Beijing's Academy of Prehistory announced that they had finally decoded the discs. They revealed that the discs told of the crash landing of an alien spacecraft some 12,000 years ago. It seems that the crew survived, but the craft was too badly damaged to be able to fly again. After encountering numerous difficulties in making the spectacular results public knowledge, Professor Tsum Um Nui resigned his position and returned to Japan. However, the scientific community of the Soviet Union did not reject his report, and the results of further testing using an oscillograph supported Professor Tsum Um Nui's dramatic findings. in the western world as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and it is traditionally read aloud to dying persons to help them attain liberation of the soul after death. Tradition maintains that this extraordinary writing originated with a race called the Nagas, and lamaist records indicate that eight members of this race were associated with meetings with the King of Shambhala. In Tibetan understanding, they are noted for their profound wisdom, and the existence of the Nagas is firmly established in the ancient lore of northern India. It is said that the Nagas have human faces of great beauty, serpentine body features and the ability to fly when they emerge from Patala, the Netherworld. Prince Arjuna, Lord Krishna's disciple, is alleged to have visited and conversed with the Nagas. According to tradition, it is said that they live in the Palace of the Serpents in fabulous subterranean abodes illuminated by crystals and precious stones. Roerich called one of his paintings The Lake of the Nagas (1932), and another shows a Naga sitting on an island in a northern Tibetan lake east of the Altai Mountains. This locates the Nagas in The Shambhala Triangle. Some ancient authors claim that the Nagas (male) and Naginis (female) originally “intermarried with humans, mostly with great kings, queens and sages or humans of great spirituality" (lamblichus, On the Mysteries, particularly those of the Egyptians, Chaldeans and the Assyrians, fourth century; also referenced in Passport to Shambhala, West Siberia Geographical Society, 1923, English translation by Professor Vladimir Andrei Vasiliu, 1933, p. 174). It is also said that selected people have The Crystal Cave of the Nagas A passage in the opening pages of the Mahabharata states that this epic was written "in a beautiful valley at he foot of Mount Meru". That valley is said to be Shambhala. It would be fair to conclude that the world's longest epic was originally written in the scriptoriums of the Immortals and then became the oundation of major Eastern understandings. Tradition maintains that Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) and Lao Tzu (c. 600 BCE), founder of Taoism, both visited he Valley of the Immortals. The Bon priests of Tibet admit that they received their aith from this same stream of philosophy (Baikal magazine [USSR], no. 3, 1969). The Bon faith, the oldes spiritual tradition in Tibet, developed rom a manuscrip he priests called "The Firs Scripture...the True Teaching...the tradition is o Eterna Wisdom...that came tom the ‘Immortals of Shambhala™ (L. C. Hamamoto, The Soul Doctrine, Lhasa, ranslation by C. Chan, 1916, pp. 97- 99, passim). Another ancient Tibetan book also ad its origin in the Himalayas. Called he Bardo Thodol in Tibetan, it is known The Shar SHAMBHALA ard the lade Tower _ sLake of the Nagar + Dead allen found alive! ~ The Crysial Cave “ ~Slone doce to subterranean “Weird artitact activatet Telesnsl 5 | » ery R | | W4 ~The Tibetan Roswell L asi J ; Z ~ f ry a, “Encoded stone ) %& TIBET =* -Himalayan 4 sks\, ‘| il mM tne De sit (ET: i > * Village of the Dwarfs (E Pveu be - f: pins 5 2. — the ae | tag rer 1 Mehorg River TIBET NEXUS ¢ 53 The Shambhala Triangle (© Tony Bushby) OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2009 www.nexusmagazine.com