Ole Nydahl (Ole Nydahl) is a religious figure, one of those who received permission from His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa to transmit Buddhist traditions around the world. Ole, better known as Lama Ole (Tibetan name Karma Lodi Zhamtso), founded more than 600 Diamond Way centers around the world, including in Russia. He has over 30,000 students and followers.
For several years Ole was trained and taught the philosophy of Buddhism and meditation in the Himalayas. After a personal request from the Karmapa and receiving permission from him, he began to teach Buddhism to people all over the world. He lectures annually, organizes meditation camps and travels around the world, stopping in many cities to teach.
early years
Ole was born in a small town north of Copenhagen on March 19, 1941. It was there that the amazing biography of the future Lama, the only Western teacher of Buddhism, who was given permission by the Karmapa himself, began.
The boy spent his childhood years with his brother in Copenhagen, fond of sports, boxing and motorcycle racing. He often recalled that, being very young, he saw in a dream people in red robes, with whom he fought and defended the local population and made his way along secret paths of closed territories. These dreams haunted him for a long time, until his first trip to Tibet. There he recognized familiar places, the house where the Karmapa, datsan and Tibetan monks lived - the very people in red robes. Only then did he realize that his soul belongs to Tibet and Buddhism, and the XVI Karmapa becomes his teacher.
After school, Ole enters the university, where he receives a philosophical education and studies foreign languages. Philosophical teachings completely captured the young man, and he even begins to write a dissertation on the life of Aldous Huxley.
Spiritual path
In 1961, Ole met Hana, who in the future became his wife and faithful friend. Together with her, they join the ranks of hippies, and also engage in spiritual search. The young people decide to spend their honeymoon in the Himalayas, where they go immediately after the wedding.
A year later, they decide to visit these places again and on this trip they get to know Lopen Tsechu Rinpoche, their first teacher of Buddhism. And a year later, Ole and Khanu was accepted for training by the 16th Karmapa. They stay in the Himalayas for three years, where they study meditation under the guidance of Kalu Rinpoche.
At the end of 1972, Ole received the blessing of His Holiness and permission to establish training centers in Europe. Ole and his wife begin their work immediately upon their return from Tibet. They travel to many countries, meet with numerous followers of Buddhism, creating centers for the "Diamond Way".
In the early 1980s, Nydahl first came to Russia, to Leningrad, where in 1989 he founded the Karma Kagyu Buddhist community.
All further activities of Nydahl, to which he devoted most of his life, are aimed at creating meditation centers and Buddhist communities around the world, teaching people and giving lectures.
Personal life
His wife and the love of his life were always by his side. In 2007, she passed away, dying in the arms of Ole. Before that, Hana had experienced clinical death 15 times, but each time she returned to life. In one of his interviews, Ole said that Hana had been trying to defeat cancer for many years, and after the last clinical death, he let her go.
It came as a surprise to many that, after 7 years, Ole remarried. This time, Alexandra Muñoz Barbose became his chosen one.
