Posts Tagged ‘Lama Ole Nydahl’

Buddhist meditation centre opens in Lambeth: Video invitation

Posted on: April 2nd, 2014 No Comments

This Saturday, 5th April 2014, the London Diamond Way Buddhist Meditation Centre will be officially opened! Representatives from Lambeth Council, local residents and special guests from a number of Buddhist and other faith groups will join Lama Jigme Rinpoche and Lama Ole Nydahl at the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The opening ceremony is part of a weekend of Buddhist teachings and meditation with Lama Jigme Rinpoche and Lama Ole Nydahl, accomplished meditation masters in the Karma Kagyu lineage. Tickets are still available on the door (the opening ceremony itself is free). See here for the full programme of the meditation course.

Once the Buddhist centre is opened, public meditations will commence every Thursday evening at 7pm, starting on Thursday 10th April, with a short talk about Buddhism preceding the guided meditation. All welcome.

To celebrate this wonderful occasion, we have produced this short video invitation below. Enjoy!

Lama Ole Nydahl comes to the Beaufoy Institute

Posted on: April 21st, 2013 3 Comments

As reported on our national Diamond Way Buddhism UK Blog, last week Lama Ole Nydahl visited London on a surprise break from his project work, which time he usually spends in one of our larger centres working on manuscripts and answering queries from his students. He came straight to the new London Diamond Way Buddhist Centre, the Beaufoy Institute, from the airport.

Despite London’s extended cold spell and the chilly conditions in the building, on both evenings, Lama Ole Nydahl gave teachings and Q&A sessions for his students in the beautiful main hall of the Beaufoy Institute. As Lama Ole so aptly put it in one of the Q&A sessions “There is no way to enlightenment for a lazy man.”

Read the full report on Lama Ole’s visit to London, and enjoy some images below of Lama Ole Nydahl and the London sangha in the Beaufoy Institute:

A table is set up ready for lunch at the Beaufoy InstituteLama Ole Nydahl enjoying lunch with his studentsStudents enjoying lunch with Lama Ole Nydahl
Lama Ole Nydahl giving a lecture in the main hall of the Beaufoy InstituteLama Ole Nydahl on stage giving a lecture in the main hall of the Beaufoy Institute, LondonLama Ole Nydahl guiding the meditation on the 16th Karmapa
Lama Ole Nydahl and a student inspect the Beaufoy InstituteLama Ole Nydahl being shown some original glass light fittings from the Beaufoy InstituteStudents of Lama Ole Nydahl meditating in the main hall of the Buddhist centre