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Ole Nydahl Diamond Way Buddhist books

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August 14, 2008
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Contents
Summary

The material contains three booklets each describing a meditation ritual used by the Ole Nydahl "Diamond Way" Westernized Tibetan Buddhism sect, personality cult or religious education franchise (it's not clear which term is appropriate for this group).

The material was previously available for mail order (in 2003). See http://web.archive.org/web/20030202170204/www.diamondway.org/fmeditation.html but was subsequently withdrawn, possibly to encourage in-person attendance.

According to the source, these are three practices loosely based on meditations Ole Nydahl claims were given to him by Lamas of the Karma Kagyu tradition. However, the source states Ole Nydahl has edited and added material inorder to support the cult he created around himself.

  • "16th Karmapa Meditation", dated 2002, guides the reader through the basic ideas and principles of meditation for this religion. A common Buddhist text.
  • "Black Coat" dated 2003, gives "a short invocation of Black Coat, the central protector of the Karma Kagyu School".
  • "Refuge and the Enlightened Attitude" is a "translation of a Tibetan meditation text". It develops the basic principals and phases of meditation.
Other than the usual religious oddities and formalisms the texts do not reveal impropriety to the lay reader although there may be schismatic issues of concern to Buddhists.
Context
United States
Cults and religious organizations
Diamond Way
Primary language
English
File size in bytes
15444488
File type information
Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract
Cryptographic identity
SHA256 347df8e5df5e16e9efd82f1ce3d3950c4a80bbb948735de0c803dd19215cf0f3
Description (as provided by the original submitter)
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