HIMALAYAN EXPLORER AND SPIRITUALIST
LAURENCE
BRAHM
Over the past decade, Laurence Brahm has led a series of expeditions following the footsteps of Tibetan Buddhist founder Guru Padmasambhava the Lotus Born Master, asking whether he might be the father of quantum physics.
During these years Laurence immersed himself in Tibetan Buddhism practicing extensively the Nyingmapa and Jonangpa lineage traditions, including the secret yoga systems of each, achieving formal lama status under the Pema Rangdang Dharma Center in Bhutan and receiving authority to teach Shambhala Vajra Kung Fu from Jongangpa Longshijia Monastery in the Amdo region of the Tibetan plateau.
Under the guidance of both lineages, he is now offering workshops and seminars on the Himalayan Wisdom Traditions to help inpart the teachings to our global community in a way that is scientific that can be embraced and practicedy by anybody regardless of religion, race or nationality.
Laurence Brahm has spent a quarter of a century leading expeditions across the Himalayan region searching for the fabled kingdom of Shambhala. Writing extensively about Shambhala, he is believed to have discovered the cave network considered a Shambhala portal that Nicholas Roreich and other explorers were seeking during the 1920s.
His Searching for Shangri-la expeditions received the National Geographic Air and Water Conservation Award in 2016 for raising awareness of our current climate crisis. He is a National Geographic Explorer.
Between 2005-2010 he lived in Lhasa establishing Shambhala Serai, a chain of heritage guest houses. House of Shambhala and Shambhala Palace are located in Lhasa’s historical Barkor area. Shambhala Source is located at the sacred hotsprings of Drikung where Guru Padmambhava and Khandro Yeshe Tsogyal stayed in retreat for many years and where the Nyingmapa lineage Longchen Nyingtik secret treasure teachings were revealed. During his years on the Tibetan plateau, he has opened a number of medical clinics located in monasteries, trained monks as paramedics, opened a school for rural children and workshops to help Tibetans with disabilities learn skill sets to earn a living.
In 2015, due to his extensive work in the Himalayan regions, he was elected as International Fellow of the Explorer Club in New York.
In 2015, Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson invited him to join the Himalayan Third Pole Circle, a group formulating policies to address glacier melting caused by climate change working under Bhutan’s Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay, during which time he served as advisor to Bhutan’s Environmental Commission.
​​​​​ From 2014 to 2019, he served as the spokesperson and chairman of the Himalayan Consensus Summit, which met annually in Kathmandu as a UNDP program drawing together regional environmentalists and policymakers in a dialogue toward seeking practical environmental solutions.
During that time he established the Shambhala Cafe in Boudhanarth, Kathmandu, which has become a nexus for Buddhist practitioners visiting and living in the Boudhanarth area.
