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Shambhala Publications
Shambhala Publications logo
Founded1969
FounderSamuel Bercholz, Michael Fagan
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationBoston, Massachusetts
DistributionRandom House Publisher Services
Key peopleNikko Odiseos (President)
Samuel Bercholz (Chairman)
Sara Bercholz (Executive Vice President)
Hazel Bercholz (Vice President)
Nonfiction topicsBuddhism, yoga, psychology, philosophy, Eastern studies, self-help
Imprints5
No. of employees35
Official websitewww.shambhala.com


Shambhala Publications is an independent publishing company based in Boston, Massachusetts. According to the company, it specializes in "books that present creative and conscious ways of transforming the individual, the society, and the planet". http://www.shambhala.com/environment. Retrieved 11 December 2014. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) Many of its titles deal with Buddhism and related topics in religion and philosophy. 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.[1] A few of its major are Chögyam Trungpa, Pema Chodron, 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 either Shambhala Buddhism or the Shambhala Sun magazine.

History

Shambhala was founded in 1969 by Samuel Bercholz[2] and Michael Fagan, in Berkeley, California. Its books are distributed by Penguin Random House. In 1976 Shambhala moved to Boulder, Colorado to be near the Naropa Institute. In 1986 Shambhala moved to Boston. It is now housed in Horticultural Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, which adjoins the Christian Science Plaza.

Imprints

Shambhala currently has five active imprints:

  • Shambhala
  • Roost Books
  • Trumpeter Books
  • Snow Lion
  • Weatherhill

Former Imprints

References

  1. ^ Shambhala Mail Order Catalogue, Twentieth-Anniversary Issue, Autumn & Winter 1989, pp. 1, 2.
  2. ^ Midal, Fabrice, ed., Recalling Chögyam Trungpa (Boston, MA: Shambhala, 2005), ISBN 1-59030-207-9, p. 475
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