The opening of the Diamond Way: Tibetan Buddhism meets the West

In the late sixties, in the days of hippies, rock ' n ' roll and amazing scientific discoveries, when the West had a huge interest in Eastern philosophy and religion, the Danes OLE and Hannah Nydahl went on their honeymoon in Nepal. There they met with the head of Kagyu (one of the schools of Tibetan Buddhism His Holiness Karmapa XVI and became his close personal disciples. For several years the recalcitrant Europeans intellectuals, smugglers and those who love to experiment with substances, "mind-expanding" - was trained in the Himalayas at the Karmapa. He gave them the complete transmission of a high Buddhist methods of working with the mind. This training has radically changed the lives of OLE and Hannah. They left the old habits and in 1970 at the request of the Karmapa returned to Europe to bring Buddhist Teachings to the West.