Also known as Lama Ole (Tibetan name - Karma Lodi Chjamtso), who conveys the teachings of the Karma Kagyu school in an adapted Western world view - " learned people complicate simple things, and yogis simplify complex things. "He founded more than 550 Diamond Way Buddhist Centers (eng.) Russian. around the world. Karma Kagyu is a sub-school of Kagyu - one of the four largest Vajrayana schools of Tibetan Buddhism, Diamond Way centers are also recognized belonging to the Kagyu school certain part Lam Karma Kagyu. Since the early 1970s, Ole Nydahl has been traveling, giving lectures, courses, and founding "Diamond Way Buddhist Centers". He has over 10,000 students, including over 2,000 in Russia.

Ole Nydahl grew up in Denmark. From 1960 to 1969 he studied at the University of Copenhagen, and for several semesters in Tübingen and Munich in Germany. Core Subjects: Philosophy, English and German languages.

Ole Nydahl hosted Active participation in the spiritual search of hippies - including with the help of drugs, having problems with health and the law. The continuation of spiritual searches was a trip to the Himalayas.

In 1961 he met his future wife Hannah. After the wedding in 1968, they went on a honeymoon trip to Nepal, where they met their first Buddhist teacher, Lopen Tsechu Rinpoche, the Lama of the Drukpa Kagyu school. On their next trip, they meet and become the first Western students of the 16th Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, head of the Karma Kagyu school.

Ole and Hanna Nydahl became close students of the 16th Karmapa. At the same time, they met other Kagyu teachers such as Kalu Rinpoche, Kunzig Shamarpa, Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche, Situ Rinpoche and others. Both also become students of Lopen Tsechu Rinpoche and Kunzig Shamarpa.

Ole and Hanna Nydahl received traditional Buddhist education under Kalu Rinpoche. Being close students of the 16th Karmapa, they also received many teachings, empowerments and informal transmissions.

According to Kyuzig Shamar Rinpoche and Khenpo Chodrag, speaking on behalf of the Buddhist institutions of the Gyalwa Karmapa, and the Gyalwa Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje himself, Ole Nydahl is recognized as a teacher of Diamond Way Buddhism (Vajrayana) within one of the parts of the Karma Kagyu school.

Diamond Way Centers

According to many accounts, he was commissioned by the 16th Karmapa to establish Karma Kagyu centers in the west. More about this can be found in a letter from Khenpo Chodrag.

Since 1973, Ole Nydahl has been traveling giving lectures. Soon the first meditation center in Copenhagen was formed, which was subsequently visited by the Fourteenth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso. In 1974, 1976, 1977 and 1980 the 16th Karmapa visited centers in Europe and the USA. In January 2000, the 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje made his first trip to European centers founded by Lama Ole Nydahl.

The centers founded by Ole Nydahl are called the Karma Kagyu Diamond Way Centers. The Diamond Way is a Sanskrit translation of the term Vajrayana.

Since the 1970s, Ole Nydahl and his wife Hannah have founded over 600 Buddhist meditation groups in Central and Western Europe, Asia, America, Australia and South Africa. Ole Nydahl prefers not to lecture or open Diamond Way meditation centers in predominantly Muslim countries. In his opinion, he would not have been able to effectively protect his students in these countries in the event of harassment - even in those countries of the Middle East and North Africa where there is no oppression and other Buddhist centers coexist with Islam. Thus, despite the existence of Buddhist centers in “ Islamic world”, Ole Nydahl argues that opening centers there would be an irresponsible move on his part. The exceptions are the traditionally Muslim republics of the Russian Federation (for example, Bashkortostan) and former USSR(Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan), where there are groups that have received the blessing of Lama Ole Nydahl.

There are 73 centers and meditation groups in Russia, opened with the blessing of Lama Ole Nydahl.

Teaching activity

Ole Nydahl constantly travels around various countries, teaching his students, as well as people interested in Buddhism. The purpose of Ole Nydahl's courses on various topics, such as Mahamudra (Great Seal) - to promote a deeper understanding of Diamond Way Buddhism.

Since 1978, Ole Nydahl has written several books on Buddhism, some of them autobiographical. Some of his books have also been published in Russian. Ole Nydahl does not recommend reading texts on the subject of Vajrayana from other Vajrayana schools for people who are starting to practice. He explains this by saying that it is better to understand one thing well than to get confused about many things. AT different schools such terms are used in different senses, which sometimes escapes the attention of novice Buddhists.

Ole Nydahl's students are, without exception, lay people who live mainly in Western culture. Monastic Buddhist education with the adoption of a vow of celibacy, according to Ole Nydahl, does not fit the way of life in Western society.

Ole Nydahl supports Trinley Thaye Dorje on the issue of recognition of the 17th Karmapa.

Karma Kagyu in Russia today

Most of the Karma Kagyu communities currently in Russia and other CIS countries were founded by Lama Ole Nydahl. His status is a teacher of the Karma Kagyu tradition, who received the right to do so from the head of the school of the Sixteenth Karmapa, who left in 1981. The first of the Karma Kagyu communities in Russia appeared in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in 1989.

The current European and Russian centers of Karma Kagyu, as well as other Buddhist centers of Sakya, Nyingma, also existing in Russia (with the exception of the traditional Gelug school for Russia), are very different in style from the school that arose in the 11th-12th centuries. in Tibet. But this is natural, because any religious organization, wherever and whenever it arises, having fallen into another cultural space, will adapt to it, otherwise it will be doomed to extinction. European and Russian centers Karma Kagyu focused on small groups of secular followers this direction of Buddhism, to engage in the practice of Buddhist meditation, mastering Buddhist theory as needed, not connected either with going into monasticism (hermitage), or with renunciation of one's civic duties. This is a natural and calm form of seeking religious truth within Buddhism.

Embarrassment about the practice of Buddhism by a layman and the belittling of this species against monasticism (hermitage) have a stereotypical basis that allegedly only one who is a monk is a Buddhist. In the history of Buddhism there is also a place for secular Buddhism, for example, thanks to it, Buddhism was able not to disappear in view of the Islamization of India. Lay Buddhism on the practical side has no contradictions with the teaching, which claims that there are many types of mind and, accordingly, many approaches to working with this mind, one of which is lay Buddhism. Some people think that in order to become a Buddhist, you need to become a monk or go into seclusion, which is a big misconception, since you can work with the mind without a monk's dress, sitting at home, and not in a cave, meditating. This is one of the indicators of a logical approach to everything in Buddhism, because you can be a doctor without a bathrobe, this requires knowledge and experience, the same is true in Karma Kagyu - knowledge and experience are needed. This is where the seeming freedom of worldly Buddhism ends, because the layman, just like the monk, must do the practice given to him by the teacher, otherwise he will not achieve the goal of recognizing the nature of the mind. In Karma Kagyu stands out special place for the teacher - he main figure, thanks to his experience, the practitioner can go quickly along the path of development, using the quality of the mind - identification. You also need to remember that the entire Buddhist pantheon has nothing to do with the pantheon of saints in other religions, since in Buddhism the main driving force development is the mind of an individual who has embarked on the path of Buddhism, who practices (develops) or does not practice (does not develop). This conclusion is directly related to the law of cause and effect (one of key concepts in Buddhism). If we talk about "Saints", then you need to understand that they indicate the enlightened qualities of your mind and help with their blessings, not because of their divine grace, but because of their enlightened mood, which by definition causes a desire to help all beings as equals.

Disagreements

Ole Nydahl is one of Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje's supporters on the issue of identifying the 17th Karmapa. According to the position of Ole Nydahl and the second most important lama in the Karma Kagyu school - Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche - the Dalai Lama is not authorized to recognize (and never participated in recognizing) the head of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. The 14th Dalai Lama confirmed the recognition of Urgyen Trinley Dorje as Karmapa at the request of Situ Rinpoche and Gyaltsab Rinpoche.

Criticism

Oliver Freiberger, Researcher University of Texas at Austin, indicates that there is an "ongoing controversy" regarding Ole Nydahl. Freiberger reports that the Lotusblätter magazine of the German Buddhist Union states that Nydahl's statements and activities offend some German Buddhists who believe that his behavior is not befitting of a Buddhist teacher. “Nydahl is accused not only of self-assured and militaristic speeches, but also of being right-wing, racist, sexist and hostile to foreigners. His unusual activities (e.g. bungee jumping, parachuting, riding high speed motorcycles) also annoy Buddhists who are not his students - whether or not they belong to the Karma Kagyu school." Ole Nydahl evokes the same attitude among a number of Russian Buddhists who are not his students.

Martin Baumann, a professor at the University of Bern (Switzerland), noted in an interview in 2005 that critics accuse Ole Nydahl of teaching "Buddhism-light" or "instant Buddhism" and that he agrees with this when he hears some of Nydahl's "suspiciously superficial phrases" .

In Buddhism, it is forbidden to kill living beings, but Ole Nydahl allows abortions prescribed for medical reasons to save the life of the mother or associated with defects in the development of the fetus. When asked about the dangers of abortion, he answers the following: “There are many families who would like to have children, but cannot have them. If the child is clearly defective, ask the doctor what he thinks. But if the child is clearly healthy, then do not kill him, give him to someone who clearly wants a child.

Ole Nydahl's position towards Islam

The position of Ole Nydahl in relation to Islam and Muslims sometimes surprises the audience and critics, he makes politically incorrect statements, which were also regarded by critics as racist and xenophobic.

In one published interview, he stated: “I have two fears for the world: overpopulation and Islam. These two things could destroy a world that might otherwise be great place". He explains that "men who repress women are more likely to become repressed women in their next life."

Lama Ole Nydahl appears in London twice a year. "Lama" is not a monk or a saint. This is a person who teaches Buddhism. Lama Ole teaches Tibetan Buddhism from the Karma Kagyu tradition. He and his wife Hannah are the first Westerners to receive this knowledge directly from the "yogi king of Tibet", the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa. Ole remembers that in a previous life he was already a lama in Tibet. It is difficult for a non-Buddhist to understand what all this means. The Buddhist, on the other hand, folds his hands on his chest with gratitude and asks for blessings.

When the Chinese captured Tibet and many inhabitants of this mountainous Buddhist country forced to flee across the Himalayas from invaders who were destroying ancient monasteries and shooting lamas, the Tibetans, as they themselves believe, began to be reborn in the West.

Since childhood, Ole, a Danish boy from a professorial family, has dreamed about how he leads people of small stature, Asian appearance through the mountains, saving them from Chinese detachments, shooting back ... Now he is sure that in a previous life he lived in Tibet. The same was said to him by those people from whom, after spending three years in the Himalayas, he received the transmission of knowledge.

"On the day of the new moon in September 1970 in Sikkim, in the Himalayas, I took the name Karma Lodi Jamtso, which means "Ocean of Wisdom". The teacher who gave me this name is Karmapa. He is the first consciously reborn lama in Tibet. He does this , starting from 1110, and has already taken 17 incarnations. Our line of succession is called the Karma Kagyu."

Different religions - for different people

A master of meditation, the author of books translated into dozens of languages, Lama Ole founded more than 400 centers in the world, of which about 80 are in Russia, and now he does not have a home - each of these centers turns into his home when the lama arrives. In each he spends no more than two days.

Even if it was just to move from place to place, such a lifestyle would knock anyone off their feet. But Ole Nydahl also gives lectures, conducts collective meditations, provides refuge for those who decide to become a Buddhist. And at the same time alive and well in his 60-odd years. Still skydiving. Still hasn't spent a single night without his wife Hanna, who travels with him. Still, when possible, rides a motorcycle at a speed of 200 km per hour on mountainous alpine roads. Buddhas keep?

In a black T-shirt and jeans, lean and relaxed, this man resembles a successful businessman on vacation. That's just in the eyes of this man splashing crazy joy. “I am not enlightened... I myself believe that I am liberated,” the lama says at lectures, answering questions. “This means that I do not take things personally, and if any troubles arise, then I do not target."

“The idea of ​​Buddhism is very simple, it is that our mind is a pure, clear light,” he says as we sit in a room at the Diamond Way Buddhism Center in London, hidden from the noisy breakfast sangha – Ole’s students and those who hopes to become his disciple on the path to liberation and enlightenment. "Some Christian mystics have also spoken about this. But we still say that all people are free, and this is our difference from Christianity."

Lama Ole has quite peaceful relations with Christianity. Christianity, he says, is for those who need some kind of god to prescribe what should and should not be done, and punish mistakes. Someone is fine with it.

Lama believes that different religions- for different people. "Our peculiarity is that we are not missionaries. Whatever a person believes in, whatever pleases him, we wish him all the best."

However, there is an ideology that the lama cannot reconcile with, and sharp remarks about it have become a kind of trademark of his lectures: "Democracy, free life on the one hand, and Islam on the other, are incompatible; It's like water and oil."

But if Islam, according to the lama, is dangerous, then why are there so many millions of people around the world? the globe proudly call themselves Muslims? The lama's answer is metaphorical. "Because there is a lot of steel in it, but little gold. In addition, it gives their lives a very a high degree certainty."

From sour milk - champagne

Karma Kagyu became the first Buddhist organization officially recognized by the Russian authorities. For what is good relations? Did this alarm the lama?

"No, and I'll explain why. We have evidence that we were in Siberia already in 1257. Hundreds of years before Christianity arrived there. When Yeltsin introduced his law on the necessary [when registering religious associations] 15 years, we said: "Fifteen?! Yes, we've been here for almost a thousand years!" I remember I had a meeting with the KGB, I gave them all the evidence, and they agreed."

However Russian authorities they didn’t let the Dalai Lama into the country ... “I think Russia has one big neighbor whom it doesn’t want to annoy. It’s just ridiculous - China is afraid of one old man. He is 67 years old, he underwent stomach surgery ... He not dangerous. A whole army of Chinese officials against one poor Dalai Lama. It's not normal. It's not very worthy. I don't think Russia needs it, it's too big to play these games."

Lama remembers very well his first impressions of Russia in 1988: "The country then looked like a big wounded animal."

Is Russia changing? “If we compare the country with drinks, then before our eyes champagne is formed from sour milk. Especially, of course, in Moscow, where up to 80 percent of all money is deposited. But everything is changing in other places. Everywhere you meet representatives of a new generation of people who do not waiting to be told what to do, who are self-reliant and independent. And that's great."

Buddhist country Russia

But Russia is a country with a strong Orthodox background. To tell a Russian that Buddhism does not recognize the soul!..

It's okay, the lama laughs. “For example, I am very pleased that I don’t have a soul, I can do without it. Russians are very receptive to new ideas, their antennas are tuned to several bands at once. Russians have a highly developed abstract thinking Much better than the Americans.

Here I involuntarily recall one of Boris Grebenshchikov's songs, where he called the Volga a Buddhist river... Doesn't Lama Ole think that Russians have a Buddhist mentality?

"Nations of the heroic type - a Slavic peoples, as a rule, they are - those who want to find happiness understand Buddhism very well. Russians are poetic. If they trust you, they take risks and go straight to the experience. There are countries where not everything is so simple. For example, in France, in Britain, in America, people want to be led by the hand along this road step by step ... "

I look into the llama's serene gray Danish eyes and understand that this person prefers not to lead by the handle, but to do something that sends you straight to the goal. Like skydiving. Does the lama tell his disciples about the purpose of human life?

"I tell them that the goal of my life is to reach a level where I can act for the benefit of all people. To eliminate all stupidity from my life, so that only compassion remains - that is my goal. I think my students have the same one."

This answer disappoints me a little. What was I waiting for? That now the Tibetan lama will surprise me with some special meaning of life? Okay, I'll try to catch him on another...

With what thought does Ole Nydahl wake up every morning? What is the first thing that comes to his mind? The lama's answer makes me laugh involuntarily.

"Which beautiful woman next to me!"

The lama starts laughing too, and we are still laughing when the same woman with whom Ole Nydahl has not parted for one day or one night for more than 30 years enters the room. She smiles softly and quietly asks, "Are you done yet? Is everything okay?"

Finally, I take a few pictures of Ole. I hope that you can see on them that radiant joy in his eyes, which strikes from the very beginning.

The only thing I regret now is that I did not take a picture of them together, the Buddhist family of Hanna and Ole Nidal. Because their life is the best illustration of Ole's words: "In Buddhism, if you suffer, there is nothing special or sacred about it. You just made a mistake somewhere."

Lama Ole Nydahl - about the author

In 1968, while on their honeymoon in Nepal, Ole Nydahl and his wife Hanna met the "king of Tibetan yogis" - His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, the spiritual head of the Karma Kagyu lineage. This meeting changed their lives decisively.

After several years of study in the Himalayas, Ole and Hanna, on behalf of the Karmapa, began to establish meditation centers around the world, opening Diamond Way Buddhism to the West. Thanks to their efforts, over three and a half decades, about six hundred Buddhist centers and meditation groups of the Karma Kagyu lineage were created in all corners of the earth - from Vladivostok to Venezuela, from London to Sydney.

Lama Ole Nydahl is the only Buddhist teacher who spends 360 days a year traveling around the world. Crossing both geographical and cultural boundaries, he reveals to the most idealistic minds of the West the deep inner wisdom of the East.

The master of meditation, Lama Ole Nydahl brings thousands of people the opportunity to realize their inherent potential, a state beyond fears and hopes, beyond conventions and limitations. In his lectures, talks, books, direct communication with his students, Lama Ole reveals the path and purpose of Diamond Way Buddhism of the Karma Kagyu tradition and supreme gaze Great Seal. His life and laid-back, a fresh look the world clearly shows what each person can achieve if he learns to rest in the space of his own mind.

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Ole Nydahl as a lama and as a spiritually disabled person - the whole truth about the UNSC neo-Buddhist sect

A question has come to me from "practicing" Buddhists from traditions (Karma Kagyu by Ole Nydahl or Kamtsang Kagyu).

“... In your first video posted on Youtube about our teacher and Lame Ole Nidale, you spoke negatively about his activities (as a person), and at the same time positively about his broad activities as a popularizer Buddhism Diamond Way. I ask you, dear, (what do you call yourself there?), to clarify the situation, regarding your opinion, I wonder what you think and why you think that way or why do you have such a point of view about Olya and his personality?

Thanks in advance for your reply!

Sincerely…"

Well, first of all, I want to say that criticism of teachers is not at all a thankful thing, but especially of an entire tradition. And I have to do this, because everyone else is stupidly used to living, going with the flow or being an insensitive, indifferent log. I’ll tell you right away I’m not one of those who swims from above and blindly rushes into the frying pan or without knowing the ford into the water.

In general, it is possible and necessary to criticize in the Kagyu tradition, but perhaps students should not criticize their teacher. Actually similar topic forbidden in Lamaism or the Vajrayana. But I am not a Geluk and not a follower of the Karma-Kagyu sect (sadness for them, apparently), I can do everything, yes, but within the framework of decency and social norms.

And provided that you are ready to accept the whole truth about Ole Nidal, then read on, if not, then see other articles in English and German about this charlatan and his sect, or leave this site, please! This is your personal choice.

Now, where to start with a bad review or a good one first? ..

Well, I think we'll start with bad sides Ole Nidal, then we'll discuss the good ones. Only facts and no fake the whole truth about"lame".

Ole Nydahl as a spiritually disabled person - a mower or just a loser

Well, are you ready for the truth? Then go ahead. First— Ole Nydahl teaches Phowe while Phowe teaches old people, cancer and the terminally ill before they have to die quickly for better birth. Next in tantra 6 Yogas of Naropa, this is generally, as it were, the final practice or accompanying after the illusory body and the implementation of tummo. Where does Ole Nydahl have this?

Second. Ole Nydahl teaches what is fashionable, what is in trend, how can a lama teach such things? The menstream turns out, but what about the tradition, the line of succession, the values ​​of the lamas, the founding gurus, the teachings and all that, and very important, forgotten, thrown into the trash?

Third. Like a person who was not on a 3 year retreat and did not pass full course training, and most importantly a former drug addict, can teach someone tantra or at least mahamudra? Unclear. Unless he can teach you how to take drugs or how to drink properly, but not become an alcoholic.

Fourth. How did the newly minted 17th Karmapa appear in the Ole Nidal sect? Out of thin air, the "Tibetan system" worked put-get". Thanks to the note in the talisman? Yah!

It is understandable Dalai Lama 14 loshara and a traitor bought with potash for Chinese lavender, in short Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso- just a Chinese communist and their Karmapa is a fake. Aha!

Why wasn't the note presented to the world and graphologists and experts didn't check it? It doesn't fit somehow!

Fifth. It is important to know that Ole Nydahl teaches people with non-traditional sexual orientation. Kind such aha - compassionate gay guru , but what about the general Buddhist concepts (5 non-men and tantric rules, as it were, nothing to do with it) and the concepts of the Kagyu tradition, as if nothing to do with it ?! Original straight! A pioneer, I think he is simply not from Kagyu at all, since he does not follow values Marpa Kagyu.

sixth. Nonsense, nonsensical nonsense, nonsense and nonsense that Ole Nydahl carries in lectures can only be listened to if he tells jokes in parallel (at least he looks like that, at least like a clown or a comedian), otherwise this confusion turns into time and money wasted. Dharma, as it were, comes free of charge and comes from an educated teacher. Well, where is all this?

seventh. For starters, Ole Nydahl and his students should have studied the 4 Immeasurables and other basic teachings, and not grind nonsense every time about meditation and Tantras. For a person who has not really studied anything and does not know, look very shameful! Shame on Olya - shame on you!

eighth. Why and for what hell to send traveling the world, with lectures on meditation and Tantra, teachers* (quarrel, but they are no longer teachers, they are already so-so, incomprehensible friends, the fact is that the situation has changed and now there are no teachers in Karma Kagye Ole) on trips, if these teachers do not even distinguish sattipathana from shine or lhatong from lojong and bodhichitta don't even know what it is? I ask and don't understand...

ninth. To propagandize that vegetarians are stupid or idiots, how is it? Have you ever read the sutras, my friend, I want to ask and know about the life of Buddha, Kashyapa, Ananda and other teachers, including the Kagyu tradition: Milarepa and Rechungpa?

tenth. Smack and lower, publicly humiliate sutras and monks, mock them. Have you studied the Hevajra Tantra and other tantras, if so, then I have doubts that you only read general description or excerpts and have a poor idea of ​​what is where and how it is. And in particular, what, or at least some kind of connection between sutra and tantra exists at all?

Eleventh. I didn’t achieve realizations because there is no knowledge, but you teach people — Ole Nydahl No. 1 lama in the Ole Nydahl sect. And his wife is dead and new girl- Alexandra. Liberal, you are our lover of sex and beautiful ladies, you will go far, then why is there still no harem? Question!

twelfth. Your obscurantism and ignorance, foolishness and illogicality are striking, if these are the qualities of a Guru or a Lama, then what can you expect from your offspring or students?

And thirteenth. Why the hell did you become friends with the Hambo Lama, he called you names, you cursed with him, you almost didn’t go over to mats, you cursed him (merchants, rogues, people without tradition, etc., etc.), he also stands on you , and now in an embrace. What happened to you uncles? Charlatan blood won and united you? You weren’t taught to tell the truth, and do you know the word conscience in general?

And Ole Nydahl has been accustomed to lying since childhood, you can immediately see not a communist!

And here on those, on imperishable relics of Etigelov did you get along, kindly to each other, or Khambo Lama stood up to you in the right position (or did you stand up to him with crustaceans) and you spun love with him, or decided to become a virtuous Christian, observing the cult of worshiping the relics of saints? A strange man!

It was a bank of tar, now a spoon of honey ...

Ole Nydahl as a teacher or as a lama

As for whether a lama or a teacher, Ole Nydahl, as I said above, lacks knowledge, experience, insights, but he is a good propagandist - a kind of Buddhist proselyte for not very smart people or people who don't understand anything about Vajrayana and Sutras. In this case, with his charisma, jokes, jokes and banter, he attracts simpletons, suckers. neophytes, and just ordinary people.

Unfortunately, I have never understood why this show with Olya Nidal is so worth it. big money, after all, I did not endure anything new, but most of his figanda that he carries more than an hour only works on an ignorant crowd that loves both trolling and entertainment.

Seriously, I repeat again and again a former drug addict cannot be a teacher in the Vajrayana, nor can one who has no experience and knowledge. But as an advertiser or a party-goer, the creator of movement and debauchery (group sex under beer and vodka), Ole Nydahl fits perfectly and others are unlikely to equal him in this part. That's all, if you want you can write angry remarks. But this will not change my opinion of your charlatan and rogue Ole Nydahl. He is a good pop leader and nothing more.

To everyone who buzzes or is going to buzz, I advise the christian Dvorkin or read it, and then buzz and write to me in a personal.

Lama Ole Nydahl was born on March 19, 1941 north of Copenhagen and grew up there. He studied philosophy, English and German at the Universities of Copenhagen, USA, Tübingen and Munich.

Ole Nidal

First encounter with Buddhism

1968: Ole Nydahl and his wife Hannah were introduced to Buddhism during their honeymoon in Kathmandu, Nepal. There they met Lama Tsecha Rinpoche, one of the greatest Buddhist teachers in the Himalayas.

AT 1969 d. they met the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa and became his first European disciples. He later asked them to spread Buddhism in the West. Karmapa is the highest lama of the Karma Kagyu school. This tradition has been in existence for eleven centuries and teaches the Diamond Way (Skt. "Vajrayana").

The transmission received by Lama Ole from her teachers

Hanna and Lama Ole received the following empowerments and teachings directly from the 16th Karmapa and the masters of the Karma Kagyu school and other schools of Tibetan Buddhism:

• Mahamudra("Great Seal", Tib. "Chag chen", - the highest Buddhist teachings about the nature of the mind) - from His Holiness the Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa.
• Kagyu Ngagjo, The Treasury of Kagyu Mantras, from His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa (in 1976) and Kontrul Rinpoche (in 1989).
• Bodhisattva vow(a promise to attain Enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings) from Shamar Rinpoche (in 1970), the second most important lama of the Karma Kagyu lineage.
• Four Foundational Practices(ngondro) - from Kalu Rinpoche (from 1970 to 1971).
• Kalachakra(Initiation "Wheel of Time") - from Kalu Rinpoche, Tenga Rinpoche (in 1985), His Holiness the Dalai Lama (in 1985 and 2002), Lopon Tsechu Rinpoche (in 1994), Beru Khyentse Rinpoche (in 2009) and His Holiness Sakya Trizina (in 2010).
• Six Yogas of Naropa(advanced tantric meditations of the Kagyu school) - from Situ Rinpoche (in 1975).
• Phowa(the practice of conscious dying) from Ayang Rinpoche (in 1972).
• Chick She Koon Drol(collection of Kagyu initiations) - from Tenga Rinpoche.
• Rinchen Tarjo(transmission of the Nyingma Treasures) from Kalu Rinpoche (in 1983).
• And many more empowerments and teachings from the above-mentioned teachers, as well as from Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Gyaltsab Rinpoche, Ogyen Tulku Rinpoche, Bokar Rinpoche, Gyaltrul Rinpoche, and others.

Lama Ole's work

AT 1972 The 16th Karmapa sent Lama Ole and his wife Hannah to teach Buddhism in the West. They were given the task of teaching and opening Buddhist centers on behalf of the 16th Karmapa. His Holiness authorized Ole and Hanna to take the Bodhisattva vow and take Refuge, a ceremony during which one formally becomes a Buddhist. Since that time, Lama Ole has given refuge to more than 500,000 people.
Seven years later, Lama Ole and Hanna received Danish queen and they gave her a gift from the 16th Karmapa.

AT 1972 The first Diamond Way Buddhism centers were opened in Austria (in Graz), Norway, Sweden and Denmark (in Copenhagen). In 1974 the first center was built in Germany. To date, Lama Ole has established over 600 centers around the world.

With 1973 Lama Ole Nydahl and his wife began organizing trips and lectures for top Tibetan lamas throughout Europe and later across North and South America, Russia and Australia. Among them are E.S. Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa (1974 to 1977), Shamarpa Rinpoche, Jamgon Kontrul Rinpoche, Gyaltsab Rinpoche, Beru Khyentse Rinpoche, Kalu Rinpoche, Tgpa Rinpoche, Tenga Rinpoche, Bokar Rinpoche, Lopyon Tsechu Rinpoche, Trungpa Rinpoche, Ayang Rinpoche.

Also in 1975 Lama Ole began teaching and opening centers in communist Poland despite difficult circumstances. This was the beginning of friendship and strong ties with the countries of the former Eastern Bloc. Lama Ole spent the following years caring for his students and developing the centers he founded around the world.

AT 1981 The 16th Karmapa passed away in Chicago. Together with the highest lamas of the Karma Kagyu lineage, Lama Ole Nydahl took His Holiness's body to the cremation site at Rumtek.

AT 1986 Lama Ole Nydahl, along with a small group of friends, made a secret journey to Tibet. A film was made about this trip - "Secret Journey to Eastern Tibet".

Lama Ole Nydahl blesses people in Tibet.

AT 1987 Shamarpa Rinpoche, the second most important lama of the Karma Kagyu lineage after the Karmapa, asked Lama Ole to teach phowa (the practice of dying in the mind) for Western students. The first phowa took place in Graz (Austria). To date, Lama Ole has taught this meditation to over 75,000 students worldwide.

AT 1989 Lama Ole Nydahl founded the first Diamond Way Buddhism Center in the Soviet Union. Later, Diamond Way Buddhism was officially recognized as a religious organization in Russia. Since then, every year Lama Ole travels with more than 200 students across Russia to trans-siberian railway to Vladivostok.

With 1992 Lama Ole focused on the work entrusted to him by his teachers and the 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje (formerly officially recognized as Shamar Rinpoche). Among the teachers: Lopon Tsechu Rinpoche, Lama Jigme Rinpoche, Sherab Gyaltsen Rinpoche, Gendyun Rinpoche. Shangpa Rinpoche, Beru Khyentse Rinpoche, and many others.

AT 1999 Lama Ole and his wife Hannah, Kati Hartung and a Buddhist head organization"Diamond Way" (which unites more than 100 centers of Diamond Way Buddhism in Germany) founded charitable foundation"Buddhist Diamond Way Foundation". Lama Ole donated all of his intellectual property to the organization.

AT 2000 Lama Ole invited the 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje to Europe. 6,000 students met the seventeen-year-old Karmapa in Düsseldorf (Germany), for the first time European land. During his visit, he gave many initiations and teachings.

AT 2003 Lama Ole, along with 72 students, went to Bhutan at the invitation of Lopön Tsechu Rinpoche. Among others, they met with Je Khempo, the highest Buddhist hierarch of Bhutan and a member royal family.

June 10, 2003 At the age of 85, Lopon Tsechu Rinpoche passed away. During the same summer, during the 88 parachute jump, Lama Ole suffered a very dangerous injury, and could not give the planned lectures. However, already in October 2003, during the initiations at the largest Stupa in the West, created by Lopon Tsechu Rinpoche in Benalmadena (Spain), he continued to perform the duties of a Buddhist lama.

AT 2004 The Olympic Committee asked Lama Ole to organize a Buddhist representation for the best athletes from all over the world at the "Center for Religious Services" in the Olympic Village in Athens. The athletes were cared for by an international team of seven-language Buddhist teachers personally selected by Lama Ole.

April 1, 2007, at the age of 60, Hanna Nydahl died in Copenhagen. She was an indispensable translator from Tibetan into English, Danish, German. Hanna taught at the Karmapa International Buddhist Institute (KIBI) in New Delhi, India. She was involved in the translations of many Buddhist texts. Hanna took care of the high lamas of the Karma Kagyu lineage during their trips to the West and taught them complex meditation techniques.

AT 2007 The Diamond Way Buddhist Foundation acquired the Hochreute estate on the Grosse Alpen Seei lake, near Immenstadt (Germany) and established the Europe Center, a meeting place for Diamond Way Buddhists from all over the world. Here is the international summer course, many Tibetan lamas and Western teachers come. The course is attended by students from 50 or more countries.

AT 2008 Lama Ole Nydahl officially opened the exhibition "Timeless Values ​​- Treasures of Himalayan Art" at the European Parliament in Brussels. The exhibition of the Diamond Way Buddhist Foundation brought together more than 40 exhibits from Nepal, India and Bhutan.

AT 2009 Lama Ole Nydahl accompanied the 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje on his first tour of Russia. He was received by the highest representative of official Buddhism in Russia, the Khambo Lama.

Lama Ole Nidal and Hambo Lama.

AT 2010 Lama Ole was invited to participate in the Kalachakra empowerment given by His Holiness the Sakya Trinzin, the top lama of the Sakya Buddhist tradition.

August 23, 2010 The inauguration of the Kalachakra stupa took place at Karma Berchen Ling, Greece, after more than twenty years of preparation. The construction project of this Stupa was started by Lopon Tsechu Rinpoche and completed by Lama Chogdrup Dorje. Leading by Lama Chogdrup Dorje and Lama Ole, the ceremony was attended by over 2,500 Buddhists from around the world, representatives of the Greek authorities, as well as people from neighboring settlements.

His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje blesses Lama Ole during the celebration of Diamond Way Buddhism's 40th anniversary at the Europe Center (Germany)

In 2012, Lama Ole, at the invitation of the royal family of Bhutan, gave teachings in this ancient Buddhist country. He met with the Queen Mother of Bhutan, and together they visited important places for Buddhists.

The Queen Mother of Bhutan and Lama Ole Nydahl

He then went to Bodhgaya to take part in the Kagyu menlam, one of the main events for the Karma Kagyu lineage. At this spot where the historical Buddha attained Enlightenment, lineage holders and masters the highest level practice alongside thousands of Himalayan Buddhists.

Lama Ole Nydahl at the Kagyu myonlam in Bodhgaya