The TCHO-Team
Integral to
Lama Ole Nydahl’s work is the "T(omek), C(aty), H(annah),
O(le)-team". His busy schedule of lecturing, writing and teaching
meditation wouldn't be possible without the full support and close cooperation
of these four people.
Tomek
Tomek Lehnert
was born in Gdansk, Poland in 1956. He studied Civil Engineering at the
Polytechnics of Gdansk and English literature at the University of Poznan,
Poland. He was active in the students´ Solidarity movement in Poland in the
early eighties. In 1983 he became a practitioner of Buddhism. He left Poland
in 1985 and during the next three years co-ran the Karma kagyu Buddhist center
in Copenhagen, Denmark. During those years he became Lama Ole‘s tour manager
and the coordinator of the Karma Kagyu centers in America, Australia and New
Zealand as well as in Russia, Western and Eastern Europe. For more than ten
years he has translated Buddhist lectures into Polish and Spanish. He has
contributed to the Buddhist magazines "Kagyu Life" in Germany and
"Diamentowa Droga" in Poland.
Caty
Caty, former
student of sports and french at Hamburg University in Germany, became a
student of Lama Ole in the early Eighties. In the beginning of the Nineties
she started traveling with Lama Ole. As the editor of his books in German, she
took an important part in the publication "The Great Seal" and
"The Way Things Are". She is also involved in the BDD, the german
Karma Kagyu organization responsible for the publishing and distribution of
meditation booklets, tapes and CDs. She coordinates the cooperation of the
Middle European centers of the Karma Kagyu school and also the schedules of
Karmapa Thaye Dorje and Lama Ole Nydahl.
Hannah
On their
honeymoon in the Himalayas in 1969 Hannah and Ole met the 16th Karmapa and
became his first western students. Since Lama Ole primarily lectures, teaches
meditation and founds new centers for Karmapa, Hannah keeps the connection to
the roots of the Karma Kagyu centers in the East. She is an excellent
translator and works for different high Rinpoches in Diamond Way Buddhism, at
the moment mainly for Shamar Rinpoche. Other than that she looks after the
students at KIBI (Karmapa International Buddhist Institute), the Buddhist
university in Delhi. About half of the year she joins her husband for his
extensive schedule of lectures and courses around the world.