In the ancient Tibetan scriptures, existence of seven such places is mentioned as Nghe-Beyul Khimpalung. 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. Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by British author James Hilton.
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