Riding the Tiger Twenty Years on the Road Risks and Joys of Bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the West

In 1969 Ole and Hannah Nydahl became the first Western students of H.H. the Karmapa, the head of the Kagyu tradition of Yogis in 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. 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 the fully developed beings whose every activity blesses the world.Nydahl, Ole is the author of 'Riding the Tiger Twenty Years on the Road Risks and Joys of Bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the West' with ISBN 9780931892677 and ISBN 0931892678.