Lama Ole Nydahl talks about how to know when and how to help others effectively by using activities like pacifying, enriching, inspiring, and protecting.
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Lama Ole Nydahl explores the relationship between the mind and the body in the context of achieving enlightenment.
The following has been assembled from various question-and-answer sessions in Russia with Lama Ole Nydahl. It was first published in the Russian-language edition of Buddhism Today (no. 31, 2018).
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In August 2019, at the Europe Center in Immenstadt, Germany, the sangha welcomed His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Thaye Dorje, his wife Sangyumla, and their son Thugseyla. On the second day of Karmapa’s visit, more than 7,500 students were gathered in the tent at the Europe Center, to receive the empowerment of Loving Eyes (Tib. Chenrezig), the Buddha aspect representing enlightened compassion. Following the empowerment and the blessing, which lasted several hours, Karmapa addressed the crowd, explaining the meaning of the dissolution phase, where the visualized meditation form of Loving Eyes and his pure land are dissolved into emptiness.
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Social media, with its unparalleled power to instantly connect people across the globe, continues to play an increasingly significant role in the world today. Recently, His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje invited his 140,000 Facebook followers to ask
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This interview was conducted by Stefan Watzlawek and Melanie Zaremba on May 24, 2006, in Houston, Texas.
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In 1993 Lama Ole and Hannah Nydahl visited Casa Tibet in Mexico, where Hannah gave a talk on Women in Buddhism. This is an edited transcript of that talk, following by questions. It is interesting to note that during the talk Hannah mentioned that there did not seem to be much interest from women in becoming Buddhist teachers. Today, twenty-three years later, Diamond Way Buddhism has many accomplished and powerful women teachers. Hannah’s example, tireless work, deep wisdom, and gentle but unshakeable confidence have surely played a large role in this development. We are happy to share this text, one of her first public teachings in the Americas.
This interview was conducted by the editors of the German magazine Buddhismus Heute. See the next article by Detlev Göbel for an explanation of who Lama Shang was and how he fits within the Karma Kagyü lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.
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The text here is an excerpt from Lama Ole Nydahl, Nützlich sein [Being Useful], 2nd edition (Bielefeld, Germany: Aurum Verlag, 2011). Interview with Dirk Grosser. Translation by Kenn Maly.
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What is the meaning of Guru Yoga in Vajrayana practice? The Kagyü school has a very good reputation in Tibetan Buddhism. It is said that most of its practitioners were able to rest in their practice at the moment of
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