7. Helena Roerich (E. I. Rerikh), Vysokii put’ [High Path], vol. 1 (1920–1928), vol. 2 (1929–1944), (Moscow: Sfera, 2006). h ese two volumes present extensive excerpts from her journals, now scanned and posted at http://
urusvati.agni-age.net. h
e other valuable sources on the activities of the 237
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Roeriches, particularly on their Inner Asian expedition, are the Tibetan journals of their travel companions Dr. Konstantin Riabinin, Pavel Portniagin, and Colonel Nikolai Kordashevsky. h ese journals have all been published and now are available on the web at http://aryavest.com/journals.
php.
8. Alexandre Andreev, Vremya Shambaly: okkultizm, nauka i politika v Sovetskoi Rossii [Time of Shambhala: Occultism, Science, and Politics in Soviet Russia] (St. Petersburg: Neva, 2004); Alexandre Andreyev, Soviet Russia and Tibet: h
e Debacle of Secret Diplomacy, 1918–1930s (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003).
9. Vladimir Rosov, Nikolai Rerikh vestnik Zvenigoroda [Nicholas Roerich: Messenger of Zvenigorod], vol. 1 (Velikii plan) (St. Petersburg: Aleteiia, 2002); vol. 2 (Novaia strana) (Moscow: Ariavarta-Press, 2004).
10. Oleg Shishkin, Bitva za Gimalaii: NKVD, magiia i shpionazh [Fight for the Himalayas: NKVD, Magic, and Espionage] (Moscow: Olma-Press, 1999), 316–75.
11. John McCannon, “Searching for Shambhala: h e Mystical Art and Epic Journeys of Nikolai Roerich,” Russian Life 44, no. 1 (2001): 48–56, and
“By the Shores of White Waters: h e Altai and Its Place in the Spiritual Geopolitics of Nicholas Roerich,” Sibirica: Journal of Siberian Studies 2, no. 3 (2002): 166–89; Markus Osterrieder, “From Synarchy to Shambhala: h e Role of Political Occultism and Social Messianism in the Activities of Nicholas Roerich,” www.harrimaninstitute.org/MEDIA/00741.pdf (accessed Feb. 5, 2010). About the occult side of Roerich’s activities, see Richard Spence, “Red Star Over Shambhala: Soviet, British and American Intelligence & the Search for Lost Civilization in Central Asia,” New Dawn Magazine July-August (2008), http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/article/
Red_Star_Over_Shambhala.html (accessed Nov. 1, 2009).
12. Sarkisyanz, Russland and der Messianismus des Orients; Terry Martin, h e Ai
rmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001).
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1. John R. Newman, “A Brief History of the Kalachakra,” in h e Wheel of Time: h
e Kalachakra in Context, ed. Beth Simon (Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1991), 54–58.
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2. Edwin Bernbaum, h e Way to Shambhala: A Search for the Mystical Kingdom Beyond the Himalayas (Los Angeles: Tarcher, 1980), 25.
3. Sergei Tokarev, History of Religion (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1989), 314.
4. “Predskazanie sviashchennosluzhitelia Lobsan Palden Yeshe,” [Lobsan Palden Yeshe Prophecy] in Baron Ungern v dokumentakh i materialakh
[Baron Ungern: Documents and Materials], ed. S. L. Kuzmin, (Moscow: KMK, 2004), 1:150–51.
5. Victor Trimondi and Victoria Trimondi, h e Shadow of the Dalai Lama: Sexuality, Magic and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism, part 1 (2003), http://
www.iivs.de/~iivs01311/SDLE/Part-1-10.htm (accessed Dec. 6, 2009).
6. Johan Elverskog, Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road (Philadelphia: Penn-sylvania University Press, 2010): 96–98; Alexander Berzin, “Holy Wars in Buddhism and Islam: h e Myth of Shambhala,” http://www.berzinarchives.
com (accessed Dec. 5, 2009); Trimondi, Shadow of the Dalai Lama.
7. Helmut Hof man, h e Religions of Tibet (London: Allen and Unwin, 1996), 125–26; Roger Jackson, “Kalachakra in Context,” in Wheel of Time, 33.
8. Newman, “Brief History of the Kalachakra,” 85. h e Tajiks are Turkic-speaking seminomadic people in Central Asia who embraced Islam in the early Middle Ages.
9. Ibid., 78–80.
10. Berzin, “Holy Wars in Buddhism and Islam.”
11. See Lokesh Chandra, ed., h e Collected Works of Bu-ston (New Delhi: International Academy of Indian Culture, 1965).
12. Bernbaum, Way to Shambhala, 123–24.
13. Trimondi and Trimondi, “Kalachakra: h e Public and the Secret Initiations,” chap. 6 in Shadow of the Dalai Lama, part 1.
14. Edward A. Arnold, ed., As Long As Space Endures: Essays on the Kalacakra Tantra in Honor of H. H. the Dalai Lama (Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publica-tions, 2009), 58, 83, 98.
15. David Snellgrove, Indo-Tibetan Buddhism (Boston: Shambhala, 1987), 1:125–26.
16. Trimondi and Trimondi, “h e Law of Inversion,” chap. 4 in Shadow of the Dalai Lama, part 1.
17. Robert Beer, h e Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols (Boston: Shambhala, 2003).
18. h e Kalachakra deity is the personii cation of Kalachakra tantra.
