<Li> Some scholars believe that the Shangri - La story owes a literary debt to Shambhala, a mythical kingdom in Tibetan Buddhist tradition, which was sought by Eastern and Western explorers . </Li> <Li> Jewish sources describe a city named Luz, "in which the angel of death has no permission to enter: its citizens have the ability to live forever ." The same description is given for a location named Kushta - based on the Aramaic word for truth . In this city, the only reason for death was if a person told an untruth . </Li> <P> Academic scholars have debunked the myth of Shangri - La and argued that this has less to do with an unexplored place and is more connected to a fantasy of the Western world . </P> <P> In China, the poet Tao Yuanming of the Jin Dynasty (265--420 BCE) described a kind of Shangri - La in his work The Tale of the Peach Blossom Spring (Chinese: 桃花源 記; pinyin: Táohuā Yuán Jì). The story goes that there was a fisherman from Wuling, who came across a beautiful peach grove, and he discovered happy and content people who lived completely cut off from the troubles in the outside world since the Qin Dynasty (221--207 BCE). </P>

Lost horizon about the lost kingdom of shangri-la