Hannah Nidal passed away

On the night of March 31 to April 1, Khanna Nidal passed away in Copenhagen at the age of 60. Over the past 30 years with her husband Lama Ole Nidal , she made a huge contribution to the development of Buddhism in the West. She was a teacher of the line of Tibetan Buddhism Karma Kagyu and translated many texts of Buddhism of the Diamond Way into Western languages.

At the same time, she worked closely with such great masters of meditation, spiritual teachers and figures of Tibetan Buddhism as the 16th Gyalva Karmapa, 17th Karmapa Trinla Thaye Dorje, the 14th Shamar Rinpoche and other main teachers of the Karma Kague line. Hannah Nidal was responsible for the International Institute of Karmapa in New Delhi (Kibi), as well as one of the founders of the European Institute of Academic Education in Buddhism in Spain.

In addition, Hannah Nidal gave lectures and conducted courses on Buddhist philosophy and meditation, and also organized a large number of Tibetan lamp trips to the west, for many of which she acted as a translator. It was a connecting link for more than 500 Buddhist centers of the diamond path for the laity in the West, founded by Lama Ole Nidal, and monasteries, who are mainly located in India and Nepal.

In 1969, during one of his trips to Nepal Hannah and her husband Ole Nidal met the 16th Gyalva Karmapu, the spiritual head of the Karma Kague line, and became his first Western students. They studied Buddhism and practiced meditation, and after some time Karmapa asked to start organizing them from his face meditation centers in the West.