Lamas & Rinpoches
The teachers around the lineage. Lopön Tsechu Rinpoche and the stupa projects, Shamar Rinpoche, Kunzig Shamarpa and the Nepalese and Tibetan lamas who taught, ordained and travelled with the Diamond Way.
Part of Lama Ole Nydahl
17 moments in this segment.
- - Lopön Tsechu Rinpoche. 1918, a master who built seventeen stupas across the West and remained close to the Nydahls until his death in 2003.
- - With Shamar Rinpoche at Rumtek. Shamar Rinpoche with Hannah and Lama Ole Nydahl at Rumtek, the seat of the Karmapa in exile, and the centre of the lineage after 1959.
- - The Dalai Lama in Copenhagen. Lama Ole Nydahl invited H.H. the Dalai Lama to the Buddhist Center in Copenhagen. (From the "East Meets West" gallery.)
- - With Shamar Rinpoche in Hamburg. The lineage in the West was built on close, warm relationships with its highest lamas. (Photo: Shamar Rinpoche, Hannah and Lama Ole Nydahl having fun in Hamburg, 1997.)
- - Lopön Tsechu Rinpoche in Graz. Lopön Tsechu Rinpoche, the Nydahls' first teacher and the builder of seventeen stupas in the West, in Graz, Austria, where one of the first Diamond Way centers and stupas were raised.
- - A lifelong friendship with Lopön Tsechu. Across more than three decades, Lopön Tsechu Rinpoche remained close to the Nydahls, teaching at their courses, building stupas with their students, and travelling with them. (Photo: Hannah and Lama Ole Nydahl with Lopön Tsechu Rinpoche.)
- - Lopön Tsechu Rinpoche passes away. On 10 June 2003 Lopön Tsechu Rinpoche passed away at the age of 85, having built 17 stupas in the West. That same summer, on his 88th parachute jump, Lama Ole met with a life-threatening accident and had to cancel his lecture tour.
- - Je Khenpo, head of the Bhutanese sangha. Je Khenpo, the head of the Buddhists in Bhutan, and Lama Ole Nydahl, 2003. (From the "East Meets West" gallery.)
- - Sherab Gyaltsen Rinpoche blesses the EC. Sherab Gyaltsen Rinpoche and Lama Ole Nydahl giving blessings in the Europe Center, 2008. (From the "East Meets West" gallery.)
- - East meets West - the Hambo Lama’s datsan. The 25th Hambo Lama Ayusheev, head of the traditional Buddhist Sangha in Russia, received H.H. the 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje and Lama Ole Nydahl in his datsan (temple). (From the "East Meets West" gallery.)
- - Kalachakra in London with Sakya Trizin. On 14 June 2010 Lama Ole took part in the Kalachakra initiation given by H.H. Sakya Trizin, the supreme head of the Sakya school, in London, making the symbolic offering of body, speech and mind. (Photo: Lama Ole, H.H. Sakya Trizin and Lama Jampa Thaye at the London Kalachakra.)
- - Offering to H.H. Sakya Trizin in London. Lama Ole Nydahl makes the symbolic offering of body, speech and mind to H.H. Sakya Trizin, supreme head of the Sakya lineage, in London. (From the "East Meets West" gallery.)
- - Invited by Lopön Tsechu’s monastery. Lama Ole Nydahl invited by the monastery of the late Lopön Tsechu Rinpoche, 2010. (From the "East Meets West" gallery.)
- - Meeting Buddha Laximi in Kathmandu. Lama Ole Nydahl meets Buddha Laximi in Kathmandu, 2010, she introduced Hannah and Lama Ole to Lopön Tsechu Rinpoche in the late 1960s. (From the "East Meets West" gallery.)
- - Shamar Rinpoche & 3,500 in Hamburg. Lama Ole continued to bring the lineage’s masters to huge Western audiences. (Gallery: Shamar Rinpoche and Lama Ole during an empowerment in Hamburg 2011; Jigme Rinpoche and Lama Ole during a Buddhist course with 3,500 people in Hamburg 2011.)
- - Shamar Rinpoche in Hamburg. Shamar Rinpoche and Lama Ole Nydahl during an empowerment in Hamburg, 2011. (From the "East Meets West" gallery.)
- - The Kagyu Monlam in Bodhgaya. He was then invited to the Kagyu Monlam in Bodhgaya, one of the most important events of the Karma Kagyu lineage, where, at the place the historical Buddha attained enlightenment, the lineage holders practise with thousands of Buddhists from the Himalayas. (Photo: Lama Ole at the Kagyu Monlam.)
