Ole and Hannah Nydahl became the first Western students of the great Tibetan master, His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, in 1968. 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."
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."
Lama Ole Nydahl and his wife Hannah studied Buddhism under H.H., the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, and at their teacher's wishes, traversed the globe spreading Buddhism to the West. For more than three decades, until her untimely death from cancer in 2007, the Nydahls introduced thousands of students to meditation and a new way of seeing the world. Nydahl continues to travel and teach in over 600 Diamond Way Buddhist centers around the world.
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