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The work in the West starts with an audience with the Queen of Denmark. A basement in historical Copenhagen becomes the first Tibetan Buddhist Center on the European continent, and rusty VW buses with race car qualities get them everywhere. The Karmapa's visit to Denmark in 1974, then opens up the world...
In 1969 Ole and Hannah Nydahl became the first Western students of His Holiness the 16th Karmapa, the head of the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. After their years of practice in the Himalayas, he authorized them to teach and start centers in his name. They have continued this work ever since. Today, Hannah translates and organizes for the main Lamas of the lineage, and Ole, himself a lama, has now started over 100 growing centers around the world.
Riding the Tiger is the inside story of the development of Tibetan Buddhism in the West. In his refreshingly unsentimental style, Lama Ole shows all aspects of the work. With breathtaking intensity, he highlights both healthy and unhealthy tendencies in the light of the Buddha's ultimate aim: to bring about fully developed beings whose every activity blesses the world.
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