Entering the Diamond Way

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From the Back Cover 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. 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 Author Books 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.