Lama Ole Nydahl giving Phowa (Conscious Dying) Buddhist meditation course in Lima, Peru in April 2013

Lama Ole Nydahl started his South American tour by giving a 5-day course on Phowa – one of the highest methods of Diamond Way Buddhism – in Lima, capital of Peru. He was asked for an interview by El Comercio, the oldest newspaper in Peru. Buddhism in Peru is mainly Mahayana, and the teachings of a Vajrayana master attracted interest and curiosity.
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If you’re looking for meditation tips, there’s no more trusted source of advice than H.H. 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje, Buddhist meditation master and head of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.
In a popular video on the KarmapaDocumentary channel on YouTube, H.H. 17th Karmapa gives tips and explanations on different aspects of Buddhist meditation, including posture, focus, and breathing.
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Lama Ole Nydahl has given lectures on Buddhism in Poland twice every year since his first visit in 1976. Though everything started in Krakow, a beautiful town in south Poland, with a comparatively small group of people who started the first center for Diamond Way Buddhism in Poland, the Polish sangha (group of Buddhist practitioners) grew very quickly, and now we have Buddhist centers in almost every city in Poland.
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This summer, practitioners from all the Diamond Way Buddhist centers of North, Central, and South America are embarking on the Americas Adventure in Europe. This three-part event will focus on cultivating friendships between Diamond Way practitioners both across the Americas and over the pond in Europe. The full program is as follows:

• Americas Week at the Europe Center: July 29–Aug 2
• Europe Center Summer Course: Aug 5–18
• Bus Tour of the Americas in Europe: Aug 19–25
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On February 15-18, 2013, the sangha (practitioners) from the Diamond Way Buddhist Centers in the United States held a national meditation course in the New York Hudson Valley region called, ”Living Buddhism: Deepening Our Practice”. The course was the second in a series of “Living Buddhism” courses in the U.S., which aim to put into practice Lama Ole Nydahl’s wishes that we produce, rather than just consume, Buddhism. It was also the 14th Annual Presidents’ Day Meditation Retreat in the Northeast Region of the country, located in the near vicinity of the future Northeast Retreat Center (NRC).
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[Germany Course: 1 Course. 1 Location. From everyone for everyone.]

For the first time in five years, German Diamond Way Buddhists are jointly organizing a meditation course. The so-called Deutschlandkurs (Germany Course) with Lama Ole Nydahl will focus on how to pass Buddha’s teachings on to others. It will take place at the Kassel trade fair halls from March 27 to April 1. more…

Czech Republic is a relatively small country in Central Europe, known in the world mostly for its great beer, ice-hockey players, top models, and Prague – its picturesque and lively capital on the Vltava River. Not many know that it also has one of the highest numbers of Buddhist centers per capita in the West.

Diamond Way Buddhism put down roots in the Czech Republic almost two decades ago when Lama Ole Nydahl founded the first center in Prague.  Now, after years of meeting and meditating in various rented premises, the growing Prague Buddhist sangha found its own place in the young and fast-developing district of Holešovice in Prague 7. This brings Prague amongst the growing number of European cities that offer the possibility for people to meet with the timeless wisdom of Buddhism in the context of modern, spacious, and publicly accessible Buddhist centers.

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Buddhist statues and traditional paintings called thangkas are not just art forms – they are an expression of timeless qualities of the mind, and as such are often used as tools in Buddhist meditation. In autumn 2012, Innsbruck, the beautiful mountain resort in Austria, hosted a unique Buddhist statue exhibition visited by 6,400 people. The event was organized by the local Diamond Way Buddhism organization in cooperation with the Diamond Way Buddhism Foundation.

The event’s title “Space and Bliss” refers to two inherent aspects of the mind as understood by Buddhists. Mind’s true nature is unlimited and indestructible – like space – and it is filled with joy, love, and fearlessness. These properties are expressed by the many different Buddha forms that are used in meditation and represented as statues or thangkas.

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The recent meditation course on Conscious Dying, or Phowa in Tibetan, with Lama Ole Nydahl took place in New York as the capstone of his most recent biannual US tour, on November 20-25 with 550 friends from 33 countries. It was the largest ever meditation course for Diamond Way Buddhism in the United States, thanks in large part to the many Buddhist students that traveled from more…

The Diamond Way Buddhist Center in London has been in a small house in the Holborn area of London for more than a decade. Now, Diamond Way Buddhism UK has received planning permission to renovate a wonderful building called the Beaufoy Institute in the Lambeth area in south London and transform it into our new Buddhist center.
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