Lama Ole Nydahl in London September 2010
This September Lama Ole Nydahl will visit London as part of his only official public teaching programme in the UK in 2010. His teachings will be preceded by a series of lectures by three of his experienced students who work in the fields of academia and science.
Lama Ole Nydahl will teach in Brighton for the first time on 20 September 2010. This is the advertisement for his lecture (click on image to enlarge).
Lama Ole Nydahl in Brighton September 2010
Lama Ole Nydahl is one of the foremost teachers in the West today regarding death and rebirth. In this brief video he explains how our state of our mind in life affects the nature and quality of our experiences in death, and that our true essence is unborn and can never die. Lama Ole Nydahl will give more in-depth teachings on death and rebirth from the perspective of Diamond Way Buddhism in London on 22 September 2010.
Previously we blogged about the Kalachakra Stupa being built in Greece. The construction is almost complete now, ready for the stupa’s inauguration on 21-23 August 2010, which will be attended by people from all over the world including many of us from the UK. Here is a video which captures some of the early stages in its construction.
Watch this high-speed coverage of the construction of the main tent where the teachings will take place during the Third International Summer Course will at the Europe Center. From 3-15 August, several thousand people will come to the Alps in southern Germany to learn the practice of Phowa and receive Buddhist teachings from Lama Ole Nydahl.
Lama Ole Nydahl
Statues of Naropa and Marpa carved from rhinocerous horn by the 10th Karmapa
Marpa: “Please be so kind as to prophecy for me the way our dharma lineage will expand and flourish. Since ultimately there is no difference between the sutras and tantras in their view and realisation, one can hold the teachings – what has been told and what has been realised – of both. Is it necessary that in external appearance one adopt the robes of a sravaka and practice the pratimoksha? It isn’t, is it?…”
Naropa: “In the future of your dharma lineage, there will be many who assume the external appearance of a sravaka. Inwardly, they will realise the meaning of mahayana, dwell on the bhumis; and be surrounded by bodhisattvas. Some others of varied appearance will make the teachings of the practice lineage flourish and expand.”
From “The Rain of Wisdom” by the Nalanda Translation Committee (Shambhala, 1980)
Pictures are from the book “Karmapa: The Black Hat Lama of Tibet” Nik Douglas & Meryl White. The statues of the early Kagyu lineage holders carved by the 10th Karmapa are among the relics hopefully (see here and here) still housed in Rumtek Monastery.
For those of you who wish to keep up with where Lama Ole Nydahl is on his constant teaching schedule and what he’s been doing, you can now subscribe for updates through the social messaging utility twitter.com.
The account description states:
“Lama Ole Nydahl is probably the best known western Buddhist teacher. This account tweets for & about him, his travels & his teachings.”
We’ve included an RSS Feed of Lama Ole’s Twitter account in the right-hand column of this blog so you can always see the five latest “tweets”. Other related Twitter accounts include a general one for Diamond Way Buddhism and one for the Europe Center.
Lama Ole Nydahl will next visit the UK in September, teaching in Brighton and London.
Folowing the request from H.H. 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje this May for each Karma Kagyu centre to accumulate one million repetitions of the mantra of Loving Eyes OM MANI PEME HUNG, our UK Diamond Way Buddhist Centres have been busy meditating to accomplish this wish.
Lama Ole’s Twitter