"Dharamsala is not Tibet any more than Tibet is Shambhala. Each points back to a reality seemingly fading out of the world into history, out of history into legend. But cultures are self-replicating fractals; ever changing, yet often rhyming, sprouting anew from the void if given the chance. Old Tibet will not return, but a New Tibet may yet be born. By throwing a lifeline to Dharamsala, we were throwing one to Tibet. And if by these works the ancient cultures of the Tibetan Plateau can be helped to persist, so too can the dream of the world that Shambhala represents"
- from the Introduction.