This interview with Lama Ole Nydahl originally took place in the Moscow airport at 3:00 a.m. on August 8, 2011, just off the plane from Siberia. This printed version has a few minor changes.
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This is the last part in the series that came out of three “transmission talks” that Lama Ole Nydahl gave during a road trip in the Upper Midwest USA in November 2009. After his talk was transcribed and sent to him, Lama Ole made many changes for this written version. The first two segments focused on (1) information and (2) meditation. They appeared in Buddhism Today #26 and #27.
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Editor’s Note: Interview conducted for Buddhism Today by Jonathan Bradley, November 2009. You’ve said often that during historical times religion has created more death than politics. Many would agree with that statement. In Diamond Way Buddhism, a great deal of emphasis
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Millions of Buddhists were killed during Muslim invasions over the last 1000 years in India. The communists did the same in Central Asia in the last century. But Buddhism survived, proving a statement attributed to Buddha himself, namely that Buddhism,
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The editors of Buddhism Today prepared a list of questions about Buddhist practice for contemporary Westerners. Ben Weinlick put these questions to Lama Ole Nydahl, while driving through the Nevada desert on their way to Colorado Springs in early June 2008.
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When one hears the Tibetan word bardo, the first thought is of the time after death. However, this word refers to any “intermediate state.” Beings experience little but intermediate states throughout their lives until they attain the state of enlightenment,
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In this column, Lama Ole Nydahl answers questions about Buddhism and one’s own practice. His words are directed to his students as well as to all bright minds who value independent thinking and life-experience. When we talk about subject, object,
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The interview was conducted by Artur Przybyslawski at the Diamond Way Buddhist Center in Vilnius, Lithuania, on September 25, 2004 Copenhagen, the place of your birth, was the place where the famous “Copenhagen interpretation” of quantum physics was formulated and
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