Vsevolod Vladimirovich Ovchinnikov is an international journalist and writer who worked for many years in China, Japan, and England. A new direction in domestic journalism is associated with his name: a successful attempt to create a psychological portrait of foreign society. The author’s creative credo: “to convince the reader that you cannot measure someone else’s life by your own yardstick, you cannot rely only on the familiar system of values and criteria, because they are by no means universal, like the grammatical norms of our native language.” The duology “Ascension to Shambhala” and “With My Own Eyes” describes the author’s travels not only in space - from New Zealand to Peru, but also in time - from the mid-50s of the 20th century to the present day. The book “ASCENSION TO SHAMBALA” is dedicated to Tibet and its unique traditions. You will learn why such a form of marriage as polyandry has been preserved in Tibet, why the dead are not buried there but fed to vultures, how healing lamas open the “third eye” to their students, how to increase clairvoyance abilities and much, much more.