Lama Ole Nydahl

Years of travel and search for adventure matured in 1968 when Hannah and Ole Nydahl met the great Tibetan lamas in Nepal. Having fled south into India and facing the loss of their timeless wisdom, these masters of meditation readily imparted to the eager Danes the view of the Great Seal (Mahamudra) and the methods of Diamond Way Buddhism. They became the first western students of the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, who, after several years of training, asked them to make the teachings of Buddha accessible in the West.

Lama Ole captivates his audience with charisma and joyfulness, and he challenges people's concepts of life and Buddhism in an unorthodox manner.
His vivid freshness gives an impression what can be achieved by experiencing ones own mind.

"Everyone knows states of meditation. The moments in life when something has been unexpectedly given to us, when joy spontaneously arose and everything was simply meaningful. The waves in mind's ocean became unimportant and one saw clearly, the dust fell off one's inner mirror and one understood. These are meditation experiences.
What brings lasting fulfillment without needing to add anything is one's mind, the awareness of the moment. This state is perfect and a right view combined with such meditation will make it last."*
*from Lama Ole Nydahl: "The Way Things Are", O-Books 2008, p. 138

Lama Ole Nydahl is one of the few Westerners fully qualified as a lama and meditation teacher in the Karma Kagyu Buddhist tradition. In 1972, after completing three years of intensive meditation training, Lama Ole began teaching Buddhism in Europe at the request of the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, the spiritual head of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. He has since transmitted the blessing of the lineage in a different city nearly every day, travelling and teaching worldwide. His depth of knowledge and dynamic teachings inspire thousands of people at his lectures and retreats in North and South America, the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Russia and Asia. He is the author of several books translated into most major languages. His English titles include: Entering the Diamond Way (1985); Ngondro (1990); Mahamudra (1990); Riding the Tiger (1992); The Nature of Mind (1993); The Great Seal (2004, Firewheel Publishing); The Way Things Are (2008, O-Books)

	The Way Things Are What is Buddhism today? How do Buddha's teachings utilize the potential of our full being? Through which practices may we experience mind as limitless space and bliss? How can one use the daily joys and difficulties in one's job, family, or partnerships for spiritual growth? The Way Things Are is a living transmission of Buddha's deep wisdom, given by a Western Buddhist Master.
	Entering the Diamond Way Here is the genuinely compelling story, and spiritual odyssey, of Ole and Hannah Nydahl, who in 1968 became the first Western students of the great Tibetan master, His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa.
	Riding the Tiger The work in the West starts with an audience with the Queen of Denmark. A basement in historical Copenhagen becomes the first Tibetan Buddhist Center on the European continent, and rusty VW buses with race car qualities get them everywhere. The Karmapa's visit to Denmark in 1974, then opens up the world...
	The Great Seal What is Buddhism today? How do Buddha's teachings utilize the potential of our full being? Through which practices may we experience mind as limitless space and bliss? How can one use the daily joys and difficulties in one's job, family, or partnerships for spiritual growth? The Way Things Are is a living transmission of Buddha's deep wisdom, given by a Western Buddhist Master.