Jørn Borup, a professor of religion at Aarhus University, says that Ole Nydahl is " the most lasting influence on the Buddhist practice scene in Denmark " and " has in many ways been the icon of living Buddhism in Denmark ".

Nydahl says that he does not make political comments in his capacity as a lama, but as a " responsible, thinking human being ", and that no one can make such statements from a Buddhist perspective because Buddha Shakyamuni did not comment on religious ideas founded centuries after his death.

Lama Ole Nydahl ( born March 19, 1941 ) is a Danish Lama in the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.

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

Nydahl has been criticised for never going on a three-year retreat, which is a prerequisite for use of the title ' lama ' in some traditions of Buddhism.

In connection to this, some blame Nydahl for causing the 1992 split of the Karma Kagyu, although there is no evidence of this, and accuse him of breaking the samayas to his teachers, which is deprecated in Vajrayana.

Nydahl is a strong proponent of human rights, and of women's rights in particular.

Nydahl is not a monk and so has not taken vows of celibacy.

Jørn Borup, Associate Professor of Religion at Aarhus University, notes that Nydahl " certainly isn't afraid to say that he likes the ladies, primarily his wife, who is now deceased, but also other women.

The Diamond Way organisation founded and directed by Ole Nydahl is also active in Slovakia.

In 1972, Ole Nydahl was appointed a Buddhist teacher by the Karmapa and was sent back to Europe in order to promote Buddhism in the West.

Ole Nydahl believes it essential for people to understand and read the meditations in their own language in order for Buddhism to become truly rooted in the West.

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

Upon returning to Europe, Hannah and Ole Nydahl began to teach Buddhism and organize meditation centers, first in their native Denmark, then in Germany and other countries.

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.

According to the Danish Karma Kagyu Lama Ole Nydahl, Buddha saw homosexuality as circumstances making life more difficult, but also explained the reason for homosexuality could be aversion against the opposite sex in a former life.

Since the early 1970s, Nydahl has toured the world giving lectures and meditation courses.

Ole Nydahl was born in Copenhagen and grew up in Denmark.

As a young man, Nydahl was involved in boxing, race car driving and also travelled overland from Denmark to Nepal several times.

In 1968, Nydahl and his wife Hannah travelled to Nepal on their honeymoon.

In 1983, the Shamarpa named Nydahl a Buddhist master.

In 1995, Khenpo Chödrak Thenpel Rinpoche named Nydahl a lama on behalf of the Buddhist Institutes of the Gyalwa Karmapa.

" Nydahl was expressly confirmed as a lama by the Shamarpa in 2006.

Ole Nydahl regularly travels between them during the year giving lectures and meditation courses.

Together with his students, Nydahl has created Buddhist centers that provide access to Vajrayana meditation methods without requiring an understanding of Tibetan language or culture.

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.

Nydahl, along with the Fourteenth Shamarpa, who was one of only four lineage-holders appointed to recognize the incarnation of the Karmapa at that time, supported Trinley Thaye Dorje.

It was largely because of the work of Hannah and Ole Nydahl that most European Karma Kagyu centers chose to support Trinley Thaye Dorje.

Nydahl, the Shamarpa, and Topgala requested that the letter's authenticity be tested.

Due to his role in the Karmapa controversy, Nydahl has been heavily criticized by the supporters of Ogyen Trinley Dorje, such as the authors Mick Brown and Lea Terhune, a student of Tai Situpa.

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