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About us The main aim of the Tibet-Europe Foundation, having been working since 1994, is to transmit the values of the Tibetan Buddhist culture to the European society. Through its activities, it introduces the timeless values of universal culture, thus contributing to their preservation, and sustaining the diversity of human culture. They attempt to reach this goal with a multitude of activities. In the past few years, they have organised free popular science lectures and exhibitions in many cities in Hungary, they have compiled multimedia publications and they have provided study support. One of their successful programmes was the lecture series “Science and Buddhism”, in which Hungarian and foreign researchers and professors held popular science lectures unveiling the parallels between their fields and Buddhist views. Another well-attended programme was the exhibition series entitled “The Treasures of Tibet”, which was organised in a number of cities in Hungary. This year two more popular programmes were run in Pécs: a photo exhibition about Bhutan and the “Horizon Film Days”. They recently published a DVD with interviews with the lamas of Tibetan Buddhism. The foundation has been invited to schools on a number of occasions to hold lectures. That is why they have launched their “school project”, the aim of which is provide valid information about this enriching lifestyle without dogmas and mysteries. It has worked most successfully in higher education, contributing in credit-point courses at the universities of Szeged, Debrecen and Pécs. Last year they also organised study circle lectures at the college in Eger and advertised talks for secondary schools in various topics. An accredited course for the further training of teachers is also in progress.
The “way” of Buddhism practised mainly in Tibet, Bhutan and Nepal is one of the three ways of Buddhism, and is called Vajrayana or “Diamond Way” in English. (This is the name given to the lay Buddhist communities founded by Lama Ole Nydahl all over the world.) The Diamond Way is considered to contain all the methods taught by the Buddha, and following its high-level practices, one can develop fast. Tibetan Buddhism has four big schools, one of which is Karma Kagyu, which lays emphasis mostly on meditation, and it is able to help us, through a realised teacher, to experience the nature of mind directly. These effective methods were taught by the Buddha to his closest disciples. Later, Indian mahasiddhas, e.g. Padmasambhava, Tilopa, Naropa, Maitripa, and famous Tibetan yogis, e.g. Marpa and Milarepa preserved and transmitted these teachings. In the 12th century, the monk Gampopa transmitted these teachings to the first Gyalwa Karmapa, the first consciously reborn lama of Tibet. Now the head of the lineage is the 17th Karmapa, Trinley Thaye Dorje. Ole Nydahl and his wife Hannah were the 16th Karmapa, Rangjung Rigpe Dorje’s first Western disciples. The Karmapa gave them the commission to found lay meditation centres in the West. Now there are more than 600 such centres worldwide, and there are 24 in Hungary. These centres work without hierarchy, and they are open for everyone, offering public teachings and meditations.
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