Shambhala Publications

Shambhala Publications
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Founded1969
FounderSamuel Bercholz, Michael Fagan
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationBoulder, Colorado
DistributionPenguin Random House Publisher Services
Key peopleNikko Odiseos (President)
Samuel Bercholz (Chairman)
Sara Bercholz (Executive Vice President)
Ivan Bercholz (Vice President)
Nonfiction topicsEastern studies, religion, philosophy, martial arts
Imprints7
No. of employees48
Official websitewww.shambhala.com

Shambhala Publications is an independent publishing company based in Boulder, Colorado. According to the company, it specializes in "books that present creative and conscious ways of transforming the individual, the society, and the planet".[1] Many of its titles deal with Buddhism and related topics in Eastern studies, religion, philosophy, and martial arts. The company's name was inspired by the Sanskrit word Shambhala, referring to a mystical kingdom hidden beyond the snowpeaks of the Himalayas, according to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.[2] Its authors include Chögyam Trungpa, Pema Chödrön, Thomas Cleary, Ken Wilber, Fritjof Capra, A. H. Almaas, John Daido Loori, John Stevens, Edward Espe Brown and Natalie Goldberg.

The company is unaffiliated with Shambhala Buddhism, Shambhala International, or Lion's Roar (previously entitled Shambhala Sun) magazine.

  1. ^ "Shambhala and the Environment". Shambhala Publications. Archived from the original on 8 February 2015. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  2. ^ Shambhala Mail Order Catalogue, Twentieth-Anniversary Issue, Autumn & Winter 1989, pp. 1, 2.