The Diamond Way Buddhist Center in Pyatigorsk was founded in early 1992. On September 11, 1993, Lama Ole Nydahl and his wife Hannah came to our city for the first time with a lecture and blessed the meditation place where we practiced for the next seven years.
The next visit of our precious teachers Lama Ole and Hannah was on August 31, 1995, and in mid-September 1998, in our city of Lama Ole, Nydahl conducted a large Buddhist meditation course Phowa, which was attended by more than eight hundred friends from many cities in Russia and abroad.
From November 2000 to the present, we have been meditating at the Buddhist center, which was blessed by Lama Ole and Hanna in the summer of 2002 and visited twice more by Lama Ole in the summer of 2005 and 2010.