Lama Ole shows how genuine Buddhist methods can be applied today to have a joyful, fulfilled and meaningful life without sacrificing one's connections to friends, family and the things we enjoy.

People who live in society and have jobs and families can use their experiences in daily life, career and relationships to transform difficult emotions and develop wisdom and compassion.

Lama Ole will explain how practitioners in more than 600 Diamond Way centres around the world develop through meditation practice, using methods to work with every situation and learning from the Buddhist Karma Kagyu Transmission.

Lama Ole Nydahl

Almost every day Lama Ole is in a different city, passing on Buddha's teachings. Since he and his wife Hannah met the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa while honeymooning in Nepal in 1968, they have dedicated their lives to Buddhism. They spent three years in the Himalayas as Karmapa's personal students receiving Buddhist teachings and developing the needed experience in meditation.

Other than passing on vivid and authentic Buddhist teachings (always with a touch of dry Danish humour) in his frequent lectures, Lama Ole also gives longer meditation courses to teach the timeless practical methods of Diamond Way Buddhism, such as the foundational practices or Phowa, a meditation which is very useful at the moment of death. Since the death of the 16th Karmapa in 1981, Lama Ole Nydahl has kept the Diamond Way Centres of the Karma Kagyu Lineage around the world together. There are now over 600 centres in 44 countries worldwide, with thousands of friends meditating and studying in America, England, Australia and Canada, with active and energetic groups in South America, Russia, and all over Europe. Lama Ole continues to work with the centres under the spiritual guidance of the 17th Karmapa, Thaye Dorje.

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Venue

Through its glass 'skin' the BMW Edge amphitheatre enjoys views of the Yarra River, The Alexandra Gardens, Melbourne Cricket Ground and the Victorian Arts Centre spire. Located at the river end of The Atrium, BMW Edge has a seating capacity of 450 people. The striking contemporary fit out was made possible through the generous support of BMW Group Australia.