Michael Wood explores the historical and religious background to the Shangri-La myth of an earthly paradise. The tale of an earthly paradise is among the most enduring myths in the world.

It was a welcome worthy of James Hilton's 1933 novel Lost Horizon, which delivered the mythical paradise "Shangri-La" into the language. But unlike the mysterious Mr Chang of that romantic tale ...

which inspired these antecedents to the myth of Shangri-La, is said to lie in the heart of Tibet's Tsangpo Gorge, near the bottom of the earth's deepest chasm. For Tibetans, paradise was never ...

Shangri-La is the name of a fictional place ... still twice as much than in the east. I have left a paradise that, nevertheless, is a myth. Admiring the scenery is wonderful, but being aware ...

Talk about paradise lost; Shangri-La is getting a beltway. Struggling to cope with over two million visitors a year, the town that claims to have inspired mythical accounts of heaven on earth is ...

BEIJING -- Finally, it's been located: The mythical ... in China's western regions. Shangri-La, supposedly a long-forgotten Tibetan word for paradise, became legendary after British writer ...

Shangri-La is being mined. China’s Yunnan province, in the country’s remote southwest — has a split personality. It has become one of China’s most sought after travel destin­ations ...

Michael Wood explores the historical and religious background to the Shangri-La myth of an earthly paradise. The tale of an earthly paradise is among the most enduring myths in the world.