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.
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.
Friday, Jul. 10th, 2009 Interview with H. H. the 17th Karmapa Trinlay Thaye Dorje (Part 1)
The first 40 seconds of the video are in Danish, but the rest is in English. From an interview on Danish television in 2004.
Friday, Jul. 10th, 2009 Interview with H. H. the 17th Karmapa Trinlay Thaye Dorje (Part 2)
Friday, Jul. 10th, 2009 Interview with H. H. the 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje (Part 3)
From an interview on Danish television in 2004.
Wednesday, Mar. 25th, 2009 An Interview with H.H. the 17th Karmapa (2000)
Buddhism Today: Gyalwa Karmapa, you are just sixteen years old, and you have already traveled both to Southeast Asia and to the West. How was that for you?
Thaye Dorje: The main purpose of these journeys is to make Buddhism available to those interested in it and to support Buddhist practitioners. I'm trying to support people to develop peace and compassion so that they can progress on their path to enlightenment.