Diamond Way Buddhism is part of the Karma Kagyu Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. The Karma Kagyu Tradition is one of the 4 main branches of Tibetan Buddhism and is historically known for producing many fine meditation students and teachers.
The Karma Kagyu methods were taught by the historical Buddha Shakyamuni to his closest students. These methods were later passed on through the Indian Mahasiddhas, Padmasambhava, Tilopa, Naropa, Maitripa, and the famous Tibetan yogis Marpa and Milarepa. In the 12th century, Gampopa gave the teachings to the first Gyalwa Karmapa whose successive conscious rebirths have kept the teachings alive and powerful to the present day. Today, great teachers such as H.H. the 17th Karmapa Trinlay Thaye Dorje, Shamar Rinpoche and Lama Ole Nydahl transmit this unbroken tradition.
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Monday, Jul. 26th, 2010 Good Behavior On The Way To Happiness
Buddha explained out of which kind of behavior a positive feedback results in order to develop more energy and surplus and to use them for the benefit of all beings.
Saturday, Feb. 27th, 2010 Science & Buddhism
See how two of the world's most fruitful traditions for understanding the nature of reality and promoting human well-being – modern science and Buddhism – come together.
Friday, Jan. 15th, 2010 On the Meditation on the 16th Karmapa
This interview with Lama Ole Nydahl was conducted by Stefan Watzlawek and Melanie Zaremba on May 24, 2006, in Houston, Texas.
Buddhism Today: The meditation on the 16th Karmapa is the main meditation in all of our centers, and every new person coming to our centers first meditates on the 16th Karmapa. Why? What is so special about this meditation?
Friday, Dec. 4th, 2009 Keeping Buddhism Alive
Lama Ole Nydahl on 30 Years of Dharma Activity in the West
Buddhism Today: For 25 years, you have traveled all over the world as a Buddhist Lama and started Buddhist centers. Who empowered you to do this?
Ole Nydahl: The honor and privilege of doing this work was given to me in slices between the years of 1969 and 1980 by my teacher, the 16th Karmapa. Knowing that he could trust me completely, when he decided I had learned more, he increased my activity both geographically and what concerns the depth of the subjects.
Friday, Nov. 20th, 2009 Meditation - Experience Your Own Mind
Buddhist meditations are practical exercises to recognize one's own mind. They lead both to a calm mind and to direct recognition of the nature of mind.
Wednesday, Nov. 4th, 2009 Introduction to Ngondro
It is impossible to overestimate the value of the Ngondro, the four foundational practices of Tibetan Buddhism. In a direct and very practical way, these preliminary practices bring forth our potential while removing the veils which keep us from experiencing and expressing our Enlightened nature.
Saturday, Oct. 31th, 2009 How Real is Reality?
Reality as we see it, is always influenced by what we think about reality. Everything we perceive is coloured by our culture, upbringing, experience, education and a lot more. However, what is behind our experiences and who or what is perceiving things?
Thursday, Oct. 15th, 2009 Interview with H. H. the 17th Karmapa (2003)
On a warm autumn day in Northern California, the Buddhism Today team was privileged to meet with the twenty year old 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. We drove south from San Francisco to the estate of Sandy and Chris Yen, Karmapa's sponsors in the US, to conduct the first formal interview the 17th Karmapa has ever granted.
Tuesday, Oct. 6th, 2009 Death, Rebirth & the Power of Phowa
An interview with Lama Ole Nydahl by Tony Dylan Davis in March 1994 in Calgary, Canada
Tony: One of the greatest fascinations of mankind is death and what survives death. All kinds of religions have been founded upon insurance policies for the afterlife. One of your topics in Calgary was death and rebirth in Tibetan Buddhism and I know it's an enormous subject and we can't hope to cover the whole thing, but perhaps a capsule view for the relatively uninitiated would help.
Ole: It's all based on an understanding of the nature of the mind itself. If we look at mind, it clearly has two sides. There is an experiencer and something which is experienced, an ocean and many waves, a mirror and its pictures. One finds both awareness and that of which one is aware. Mind is both.
Sunday, Oct. 4th, 2009 Happiness
What do Buddhist teachings say concerning happiness? Basically, in Buddhism one makes a separation between conditioned and unconditioned happiness, between a relative and an absolute kind. Relative happiness has to do with experiences, absolute happiness has to do with experiencer itself.
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