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think- ago

Another Tibetan Buddhism branch we should look into is the tantric Diamond Way Buddhism.

It's very guru centered.

Diamond Way Buddhism uses a variety of standard Vajrayana meditation methods found within the Karma Kagyu tradition.

When the practitioners meet at lectures or for meditation they will typically do the "Guru Yoga meditation", (Skt. Guru yoga, Tib. Lame Naljor) where the practitioner identifies with the enlightened qualities of the teacher in order to develop these qualities.

(my emphasis)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Way_Buddhism

One of its Lamas, Ole Nydahl, was accused of sexual abuse by a blogger, who had to remove her blog 'for legal reasons'. You can read some allegations here on this thread:

https://forum.culteducation.com/read.php?12,59830,110363

Which I found interesting is that they seem to use hypnosis and trance technics, just like NXIUM does (Nancy Salzman practices hypnosis).

Less sinister allegations are that Nydahl promotes Buddhism in a too worldly, 'fun' way, so that it will appeal to Westerners.

Nydahl, who, together with his wife, was introduced to Tibetan Buddhism during their honeymoon in Tibet in 1968, has been one of the major promoters of the tantric Diamond Way Buddhism in the West.

There are more than 600 Diamond Way centers now, mostly in the US, in Europe, and in Russia.

migratorypatterns ago

Okay, so the lesson is: The cabal is going to make us compliant one way or another."