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ELGiR [Read ebook] Entering the Diamond Way Online [ELGiR.ebook] Entering the Diamond Way Pdf Free Lama Ole Nydahl DOC | *audiobook | ebooks | Download PDF | ePub Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #587848 in eBooks 2012-11-20 2012-11-20File Name: B00AAOJ7FK | File size: 79.Mb Lama Ole Nydahl : Entering the Diamond Way before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised Entering the Diamond Way: 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. 70's and a very beginning of Diamond WayBy StanislausIt is very interesting to read about the world at the end of 60's, and it is even more interesting to read how one of a most successful projects of bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the West began. What started as a devotion and search for a meaningful life of a Danish couple - not a wealthy or politically influential one, later become a path for thousands of people across the globe. Lama Ole is very honest, so I enjoyed this reading a lot. It is also amazing to read not just in this book, how the head of Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, 16th Karmapa, being forced to leave Tibet, decided the West is so important for the survival of his school. I guess he never been there and had very few disciples from Europe. The sequel of this book is "Riding the tiger" which is also great.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Beautiful and inspiring story of my teachersBy Santee HernandezCompletely inspiring, brought me to tears. This book tells a wonderful story of two people who gave up their lives to bring Buddhism to the west.4 of 6 people found the following review helpful. vastly fineBy LuelCanyonThis is one of Lama Ole Nydahl's most captivating books, one of his best. It's a superb book about Diamond Way Buddhism. The Lama Ole you get in person, full and every time he teaches, is richly present in this book about his honeymoon in Nepal, his conversion, and SO much after that! He's a great teacher, a realised teacher. Kingdom politics have been played for centuries, perhaps especially in exile. Whatever the real meaning behind the ongoing controversy of two Black Karmapa 17 claimants, Lama Ole Nydahl's teaching is refined by truth tested, a legacy of buddhist teaching that affords faith in the truth, and the understanding attained from it. Entering the Diamond Way is rich and clear, and a beacon of hope. A perfect book to introduce Westerners to Tibetan Buddhism. This 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. Their exciting travels on the worn path between the green lowlands of Europe to the peaks of the Himalayas, led them to experience the skillful teachings of numerous Tibetan lamas who helped transform their lives into "limitless clarity and joy." From their first contact with Tibetan Buddhism in Kathmandu in the form of a lama with extraordinary psychic powers, Ole and Hannah encountered the full spectrum of the Buddhist "view." Their aim in writing this book is "to form a bridge between two worlds, and especially to share with all who are looking for their true being ... an introduction to a time-proven way to Enlightenment." "One cannot really transmit anything, except what one has directly experienced, and the reason many of you will be able to identify with what happened to us is that, deep within, we are so very much alike." From the Back CoverThis 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. From their first contact with Tibetan Buddhism in Kathmandu in the form of a lama with extraordinary psychic powers, Ole and Hannah encountered the full spectrum of the Buddhist "view".About the AuthorBooks by Lama Ole Nydahl Entering the Diamond Way Riding the Tiger The Great Seal In 1969 Ole Nydahl and his wife Hannah became the first Western students of H.H. the Karmapa, the head of the Kagyu tradition in Tibetan Buddhism. After their years of practice in the Himalayas, he authorized them to teach and start centers in his name. Over the past thirty years Lama Ole Nydahl has spread Diamond Way Buddhism worldwide. He provides practical guidance to more than six hundred meditation centers that are under the spiritual authority of the 17th Karmapa, Thaye Dorje.Excerpt. copy; Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.Our Honeymoon Journey Choosing Nepal for our honeymoon in the summer of 1968 was no bad idea. It was the very time in history when the early and still idealistic Hippie scene of Europe and the old schools of Tibetan Buddhism could meet, giving direction to the former and a chance for the latter not to end up in museums but survive as a living practice. Years of traveling the worn paths between the green lowlands of Northern Europe and the icy peaks of the Himalayas would follow, bringing forth lay and yogic Diamond Way Buddhism as it thrives today. For the first time in history, the meeting of Western idealism and intelligent Asian materialism now combine vast and formerly untried aspects of mind's potential. As my lovely wife Hannah, myself, and later so many fine friends discovered, what appeared was a tool to master life. The Diamond Way expertly transforms disturbed states of consciousness into most enjoyable clarity and bliss. In a completely practical way, it makes every aspect of life useful towards liberation and enlightenment. In the exciting company of co-smugglers and other adventurous friends during those years, it was possible to spend real time with the highest Tibetan and Bhutanese lamas. Their examples and exceedingly skillful teachings inspired us, and after a careful examination they chose us as partners in bringing their powerful transmissions and meditations into the West. The main aim of this book is to recount what happened when the best of two so different but valuable cultures met. Its continuation, Riding the Tiger, will describe the following maturation of the work. It may have been the only case in history when experienced people from two advanced civilizations so consciously tried to learn the best from each other. With the tragic losses of the last years, during which several of the old lamas holding a full inner and secret transmission have died, it feels good to reprint a book that shares the atmosphere of that first encounter. Hannah was twenty-two and I twenty-seven when we first met living Diamond Way Buddhism. Our parents were teachers at colleges in the residential areas north of Copenhagen. They were precious people, and we grew up in a world full of confidence in the fundamental goodness of man. Though we were raised in a completely humanistic setting from earliest childhood, I had recurrent, exciting dreams of war in mountain areas which I had never seen. In them, I beat back round-faced soldiers and protected what I could then only understand as men in red, ladies' clothes. Not until 25 years later, when I saw the first Tibetan monks in Nepal, did I understand what they were, and only 45 years later, on a secret tour through Chinese-occupied eastern Tibet, did I see the mountains and villages which I had fought to protect. Also in this life, I automatically fought anything bigger - be it people or systems - that would limit my freedom. 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