In 1974, Diamond released the album Serenade, from which " Longfellow Serenade " and " I've Been This Way Before " were issued as singles.

The Triratna Buddhist Community ( formerly the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order ), was founded by Sangharakshita in 1967, and the Diamond Way Organisation founded by Ole Nydahl, who has founded more than 600 buddhist centers across the world.

Vajrayana is translated as " Thunderbolt Way " or " Diamond Way " and can imply the thunderbolt experience of Buddhist enlightenment or bodhi.

In Rostov-on-Don are the Roman Catholic " Church of the Lord's Supper ", the Old Believers ' temple, a synagogue a mosque, Armenian and Greek churches, and the Diamond Way Buddhist Center of the Karma Kagyu Tradition.

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* Neil Diamond (" Heartlight ", " On The Way To The Sky ", " Front Page Story "," I'm Guilty ", " Crazy ", " Turn Around etc ..)

With his wife, Hannah Nydahl, he founded Diamond Way Buddhism, a worldwide Karma Kagyu Buddhist organization of lay practitioners.

Nydahl is the author of nine books in English, including The Way Things Are, Entering the Diamond Way, and Riding the Tiger.

As described in his book " Entering the Diamond Way ", his travels were financed through smuggling, for which he was once arrested and detained in Denmark.

In the early 90s, Diamond Way Buddhism was founded as a way to protect established centers during the Karmapa controversy.

, there were 629 Diamond Way centers throughout the world.

In the Diamond Way centers, the meditations and names of the various Buddha forms have been translated into Western languages.

According to Buddhism Today, the Diamond Way Buddhist magazine, " hierarchical systems will not sell with independent people in the West.

Students in Diamond Way Centers practice the ngöndro given by Wangchuk Dorje, 9th Karmapa Lama, which are a set of four foundational practices that are intended to prepare the mind for enlightenment, a meditation on the Buddha Loving Eyes ( Avalokiteśvara in Sanskrit, Chenrezig in Tibetan ) and several forms of guru yoga or meditation on the lama ( as given by the 16th Karmapa ).

In a newsletter dated July 9, 2010, Nydahl responded to questions about the types of practices taught in Diamond Way Centers by stating " I never taught anything I was not asked to pass on by the great Sixteenth Karmapa and that its basis was always the Guru Yogas of the Karmapas.

Nothing else is practiced in our now 650 Diamond Way centers world-wide where my students meditate side by side.

In Germany alone, the German Buddhist Union, ( Deutsche Buddhistische Union ) estimates that about 20, 000 persons regularly visit the Diamond Way centers and groups.

As a result, 629 of the centers supporting Trinley Thaye Dorje are affiliated with Diamond Way Buddhism.

There is a greater concentration of Diamond Way centers in Germany compared to elsewhere in Europe.

Between late 1999 and April 2000 there was a public dispute between the German Buddhist Union and the German branch of Diamond Way, which is a member organisation of the Union.

" The German branch of Diamond Way ( Buddhistischer Dachverband Diamantweg ) remains a member of the German Buddhist Union.

When asked about it, Nydahl has said: " There ’ s no teacher-student relationship involved in that, [...] They ’ re Diamond Way Buddhists, but they ’ re not my students in that moment.

The Diamond Sangha has affiliate zen centers in South America, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Europe and is known for making the rigors of traditional Zen accessible to lay practitioners.

It includes the outer northern suburbs of Whittlesea, Epping, Doreen, Mernda, Hurstbridge and Diamond Creek, and regional centers such as Woodend, Tooborac, Broadford, Seymour, Yea, Eildon, Marysville, Kinglake and Warburton, on top of many other small towns.

The Skewb Diamond has 6 octahedral corner pieces and 8 triangular face centers.

However, the triangular " corners " present on the Skewb have no visible orientation on the Skewb Diamond, and the square " centers " gain a visible orientation on the Skewb Diamond.

Among the economic development institutions established in East Africa were companies such as the Diamond Jubilee Investment Trust ( now Diamond Trust of Kenya ) and the Jubilee Insurance Company, which are quoted on the Nairobi Stock Exchange and have become major players in national development.

Diamond and graphite are two allotropes of carbon: pure forms of the same element that differ in crystalline structure.

A series of team-sponsored fan motorcoach trips from Tucson to Bank One Ballpark were inaugurated for the opening season and are still in operation to this day ( it is now known as the " Diamond Express ").

Diamond films are being grown on valve rings, cutting tools, and other objects that benefit from diamond's hardness and exceedingly low wear rate.

One of the major sentient species in Terry Pratchett's Discworld universe are the " Earth "- based ( ranging from Detritus to Diamond ) Trolls.

While there are no ski slopes within Carson City, the city is located close to Heavenly Mountain Resort, Diamond Peak and Mount Rose skiing areas.

According to the Recording Industry Association of America, Led Zeppelin are the fourth-highest-selling music act in the US and one of only three acts to earn four or more Diamond albums.

Diamond and carbon in its graphite form are considered to be ceramics.

Modern bottleneck slides are still manufactured by companies such as Dunlop Mfg., Steve Clayton, Inc., Mr. B's Bottleneck Guitar Slides, Bluemoon Bottleneck Company and Diamond Bottlenecks.

* Royal Tongan Marines are Camp Blue Diamond ( Photo )

Diamond dies must be rebored when they have lost their original diameter of hole, but metal dies are brought down to size again by hammering up the hole and then drifting it out to correct diameter with a punch.

Scientists such as Jared Diamond in The Third Chimpanzee, and Morris Goodman of Wayne State University in Detroit suggest that the bonobo and common chimpanzee are so closely related to humans that their genus name also should be classified with the human genus Homo: Homo paniscus, Homo sylvestris, or Homo arboreus.

Among the finest palaces is Palazzo dei Diamanti ( Diamond Palace ), named after the diamond points into which the façade's stone blocks are cut.

Indeed, just as we named the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Steel Age after the materials that humans could make, we might call the new technological epoch we are entering the Diamond Age ".

Both groups are producers and users of the Diamond Age's nanotechnology, and yet both groups revere tradition as it is expressed through comportment, clothing and other relics of the past.

Diamonds in general, including the Hope Diamond, are considered to be the hardest natural mineral on the Earth, but because of diamond's crystalline structure, there are weak planes in the bonds which permit jewelers to slice a diamond and, in so doing, to cause it to sparkle by refracting light in different ways.

Previously, the dimensions of the French Blue had been known only from two drawings made in 1749 and 1789 ; although the model slightly differs from the drawings in some details, these details are identical to features of the Hope Diamond, allowing CAD technology to digitally reconstruct the French Blue around the recut stone.

However, this smaller diamond's present whereabouts are unknown, and the recent CAD reconstruction of the French Blue fits too tightly around the Hope Diamond to allow for the existence of a sister stone of that size.

Diamond cutters are generally not referred to as lapidaries, due to the specialized techniques which are required to work diamond.

Diamond cutting, as well as overall processing, is concentrated in a few cities around the world: while 80 % of rough diamonds are handled in the Antwerp diamond district in Belgium, more than 50 % of processed diamonds also pass through there.

There are currently 69 officially designated cities in the UK, of which eleven have been created since 2000 in competitions to celebrate the new millennium and Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee in 2002 and Diamond Jubilee in 2012.

The most recent cultivars released from this program are the prickle-free cultivars ' Black Diamond ', ' Black Pearl ' and ' Nightfall ' as well as the very early ripening ' Obsidian ' and ' Metolius '.