India Post News Service

CHICAGO: The Diamond Way Buddhist Center Chicago will host Lama Ole Nydahl at The Gleacher Center in Downtown Chicago on June 9 at 8 pm Lama Ole will give a public lecture entitled "Buddhism - The Art of The Moment," followed by a Q & A session and a short meditation.Lama Ole Nydahl has been traveling and teaching for the last 36 years, visiting a different city virtually every day.

He has visited Chicago at least once a year since 2004, and in 2007 he gave a three-day course at the Chicago Cultural Center. The transformative methods of Diamond Way Buddhism provide deep understanding into the nature of mind, as well as the world around us.After completing intensive meditation training in the Himalayas in 1972, Lama Ole Nydahl and his wife Hannah started teaching Buddhism at the request of 16th Gyalwa Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje.

The Karmapa is the spiritual head of the Karma Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism and is considered the king of the yogis of Tibet. Since then, Lama Ole and Hannah have founded more than 550 Diamond Way Meditation Centers in 48 countries around the world, with an estimated 30,000 practitioners. These centers are under the spiritual guidance of 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, Trinlay Thaye Dorje.