Exeter Diamond Way Buddhist Centre

General information

Diamond Way Buddhism is part of the Karma Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. In our centres we practice with the meditations and methods of Vajrayana Buddhism under the spiritual guidance of His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, Thaye Dorje, and directed by Lama Ole Nydahl.

In 1969 Ole Nydahl and his wife Hannah met the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, historically the first incarnate lama of Tibet. Since then the teachings of Diamond Way Buddhism have gradually found their way to the West. His Holiness asked them to teach, establish meditation centres and ensure that the teachings would remain alive and attractive to intelligent, critical, lay people in the Western world.

The Karma Kagyu Lineage is one of the major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. As a lineage of direct oral transmission, it especially treasures meditation, and through interaction with a qualified teacher can bring about the full and direct experience of the nature of mind. The Karma Kagyu methods were taught by the historical Buddha Shakyamuni to his closest students.