BIOGRAPHY
Andrei Znamenski: Andrei Znamenski studied history and anthropology both in
Russia and the United States. Formerly a resident scholar at the Library of
Congress, then a foreign visiting professor at Hokkaido University, Japan, he
has taught at The University of Memphis and Alabama State University. His fields
of interests include religions of indigenous people of Siberia and North
America, shamanism, and esotericism. Znamenski is the author of Shamanism and
Christianity (1999), Through Orthodox Eyes (2003), Shamanism in Siberia (2003),
The Beauty of the Primitive: Shamanism and Western Imagination (2007), and the
editor of the three-volume anthology Shamanism: Critical Concepts (2004).
SYNOPSIS
Many know of Shambhala, the Tibetan Buddhist legendary