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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.
* Diamond Way
* 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.
Diamond Way centers are run entirely by volunteers ; the organization does not maintain any paid staff.
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.

Diamond and organisation
He is President of the Diversity Works initiative-a programme led by the disability organisation Scope, a Diamond Ambassador for Mencap's WorkRight initiative, designed to spread the message of equality for disabled people, a Vice-President of Birmingham Hospice, and a Patron of Lifecycle UK, Ladies Fighting Breast Cancer and Get A-Head, the cancer charity fighting head and neck diseases.
* The Blue Diamond Society, an LGBT rights organisation in Nepal

Diamond and founded
Some charities and volunteer organizations have also been founded as gifts to, or in honour of, some of Canada's monarchs or members of the Royal Family, such as the Victorian Order of Nurses ( a gift to Queen Victoria for her Diamond Jubilee in 1897 ), the Canadian Cancer Fund ( set up in honour of King George V's Silver Jubilee in 1935 ), and the Queen Elizabeth II Fund to Aid in Research on the Diseases of Children.
The first settlement in the area of Cottonwood Falls was in 1854, when an Indian trader named Seth Hayes founded a cattle ranch on the Cottonwood River close to the mouth of Diamond Spring Creek.
In 1970, Polydor acquired the Hong Kong-based Diamond Records which was owned and founded by the local Portuguese merchant Ren da Silva in the late 1950s.
Lilith Fair was a concert tour and travelling music festival, founded by Canadian musician Sarah McLachlan, Nettwerk Music Group's Dan Fraser and Terry McBride, and New York talent agent Marty Diamond.
The acquisition also includes all past Diamond Shamrock assets, including the former Sigmor Petroleum assets founded by Thomas E. Turner, founder of TETCO Inc. ( the Sigmor brand name was the initials of Sigfried Moore, Turner's former employer ) which merged with Shamrock Oil and Gas in 1960 forming Sigmor Shamrock-which was merged into Diamond Shamrock in 1982.
It was founded in 1964, with two MPs at Stormont, Harry Diamond and Gerry Fitt.
The organization was founded a year preceding Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, so as to give the Queen time to complete a list of first inductees.
In November 2006, Eduardo dos Santos adopted an initiative created by veteran Diamantaire, Dr. André Action Diakité Jackson, to launch the African Diamond Producers Association ( ADPA ), an intergovernmental offshoot of the African Diamond Council ( ADC ), consisting of approximately 20 African nations founded to promote market cooperation and foreign investment in the African diamond industry.
Pratap Singh Gaekwad of Baroda ( 1908 – 1968 ) ( the last Maharaja of the erstwhile Baroda State ) founded the university in 1949 on the wishes of his grandfather, Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III ( 1863 – 1939 ), and settled the " Sir Sayajirao Diamond Jubilee and Memorial Trust " which exists to date and caters to the education and other needs of the people of the former Baroda State.
The team was founded by Diamond Sports Management in 1996, headed by Cord Pereira.
Black Diamond was founded on December 1, 1989, when the assets of Chouinard Equipment Ltd. were purchased by a group of former company employees led by current Black Diamond Equipment CEO Peter Metcalf, and a few outside investors.
The company was founded in 1999 and has been awarded the title " Publisher of the Year Under 5 % Market Share " for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 by Diamond Comic Distributors.
In 1982, Baltimore-based comics retailer Steve Geppi founded Diamond Comic Distributors.
In 1995, Geppi founded Diamond International Galleries, which acquired Hake's Americana & Collectibles auction house ( 2004 ), and in 2005, Pennsylvania-based Morphy Auctions.
In 1999, Geppi founded Diamond Select Toys, and in 2006 he founded Geppi's Entertainment Museum in Baltimore.
Steve Schanes and his wife, Ann Fera, subsequently founded Blackthorne Publishing, and Bill Schanes now works for Diamond Comic Distributors.

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