Involvement with Buddhism Buddhist education
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. As a young man, Nydahl was involved in boxing, race car driving and also travelled overland from Denmark to Nepal several times. He began but did not finish a doctoral thesis on Aldous Huxley’s Doors of Perception. In the early 1960s, he served briefly in the Danish Army, then studied philosophy, English, and German at the University of Copenhagen, where he completed the examen philosophicum with the best possible grade.
Ole Nydahl was born in Copenhagen and grew up in Denmark. Nydahl is the author of ten books in English, including The Way Things Are, Entering the Diamond Way, Buddha and Love and Fearless Death. With his wife, Hannah Nydahl (1946-2007), he founded Diamond Way Buddhism, a worldwide Karma Kagyu Buddhist organization of lay practitioners. Since the early 1970s, Nydahl has toured the world giving lectures and meditation courses. Ole Nydahl (born March 19, 1941), also known as Lama Ole, is a Danish Lama in the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.
