# Shambala Ashrama

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/shambala-ashrama/
- Also known as: Brotherhood of the White Temple
- Kind: Churches
- Status: Living today
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.3444, -105.0348 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-17

## What we know

The Brotherhood of the White Temple was founded in Denver in 1930 by Maurice Doreal (Claude Doggins, 1898-1963); it acquired land here and built the ashrama in 1946 (county map, S-0123, citing Time, Sept. 16, 1946).

## Where it was

Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-059; Douglas County and Douglas County Libraries, 2012, on the Larkspur Historical Society's Google map, S-0123). Where that map and ours place the same site, the pins mostly fall within about 300 feet. Good to a few hundred feet.

Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.

## Sources

- S-0045: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0045
- S-0046: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0046
- S-0123: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0123

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Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.