I couldn't find a dissertation topic, I discovered my interest in the Buddhist tradition. Shambhala is a mixture of myth and ritual aimed at changing people's lives. Without myth, there would be no ritual, and vice versa. We move away from traditional stereotypes that religion must be a certain way and believe certain things, and we open ourselves to the fact that religion can be whatever we want it to be. It’s something we can put our energy into to help explain the meaning of our lives. If that's not considered a religion, I don't know what is. By placing less emphasis on rules and more on our daily lives, Shambhala creates an environment conducive to practicing Buddhism while reflecting on society as a whole. It blends the past with the present, allowing change to occur in the world, the goal of meditation. It showed me that even though I don't know everything there is to know about Buddhist beliefs, I can still practice and apply them in my daily life. By dismantling the rituals, I want to know more about the myths, that is to say how the two are linked, which makes the whole religion come together.