Welcome to the Intercollegiate Diamond Way Buddhist Network. This organization was founded in January 2003 by groups and centers affiliated with universities throughout the Americas and around the globe. Our general goal is to create a support structure for all new and previously established university groups and to make Diamond Way Buddhism accessible to all university and high school students and professors.

This site offers centralized access to all major Diamond Way Websites and Online Teachings, as well as personalized access for university group organizers. If there isn't currently a Diamond Way Center in your area, resources are readily available for starting a new university-affiliated group on your campus or in town. In addition, we've also provided a means for professors to invite Buddhist teachers to speak in their classes as guest lecturers.

Our ultimate aim is to form a chain of well-functioning Diamond Way Buddhist groups, based on friendship and idealism, which will be capable of hosting Karma Kagyu teachers such as The 17th Karmapa Thaye Dorje, Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche, Lama Ole Nydahl, and their senior students for lecture tours on university campuses worldwide. Eventually we would like to translate the site into many languages so that our friends throughout Europe, Russia, and Latin America will be able to use it as well.

We are part of a worldwide network of over 400 Diamond Way Buddhist Meditation Centers in the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Lama Ole Nydahl and his wife Hannah, the first western students of the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, founded and direct these centers under the spiritual guidance of the 17th Karmapa Thaye Dorje .

All of our meditation centers are places where people interested in Buddhism can meet in an open and friendly atmosphere to study and practice the powerful and transformative methods of the Diamond Way. In addition to holding weekly meditations, we also host various teachers of the Karma Kagyu Lineage for public lectures and extended retreats throughout the year. It is our deep wish that this site may be a very useful tool for the centers that are already established and bring a lot of benefit to all of our new friends. Karmapa Chenno!