62 York St, Sackville, NB E4L 1E2, Canada
Mullin attended Mount Allison University in 1967.
Gangchen Kyishong, Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh 176215, India
Mullin studied at Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, in Dharamsala, India, from 1972 to 1978.
62 York St, Sackville, NB E4L 1E2, Canada
Mullin attended Mount Allison University in 1967.
Gangchen Kyishong, Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh 176215, India
Mullin studied at Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, in Dharamsala, India, from 1972 to 1978.
(This fascinating book draws from nine Tibetan texts -- in...)
This fascinating book draws from nine Tibetan texts -- including The Book of the Dead -- and covers such topics as meditation techniques in preparation for death, accounts of the deaths of saints and yogis, and methods to facilitate the transition to new planes of consciousness at death.
https://www.amazon.com/Death-dying-tradition-Glenn-Mullin/dp/1850630240/?tag=2022091-20
1986
(The book covers topics such as meditation techniques to p...)
The book covers topics such as meditation techniques to prepare for death, inspirational accounts of the deaths of saints and yogis, and methods for training the mind in the transference of consciousness at the time of death.
https://www.amazon.com/Living-Face-Death-Tibetan-Tradition/dp/1559393106/?tag=2022091-20
1986
(The Kalachakra spiritual legacy is a vital and central pa...)
The Kalachakra spiritual legacy is a vital and central part of Tibetan Buddhism. Presented here is a detailed and practical overview of this unique spiritual path.
https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Kalachakra-Glenn-H-Mullin-ebook/dp/B006N5AQ0U/?tag=2022091-20
1991
(Lyrical mystic verses of the Second Dalai Lama translated...)
Lyrical mystic verses of the Second Dalai Lama translated by a Tibetan Buddhist scholar.
https://www.amazon.com/Mystical-Verses-Mad-Dalai-Lama/dp/0835607003/?tag=2022091-20
1994
https://www.amazon.com/Six-Yogas-Naropa-Glenn-Mullin-ebook/dp/B001W0ZG3S/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(The Seventh Dalai Lama was one of the most beloved Buddhi...)
The Seventh Dalai Lama was one of the most beloved Buddhist masters. He had an outrageous sense of humor, which found its way into his spiritual compositions. His popular Gems of Wisdom contains spontaneous verses employing earthy metaphors to illustrate key points.
https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Seventh-Tibetan-Buddhist-Philosophy-ebook/dp/B003B66ZUY/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(Any visitor to a Tibetan temple will be impressed by the ...)
Any visitor to a Tibetan temple will be impressed by the large number of female images that appear in wall frescos and tangka paintings, as well as in the form of sculptures and other mediums. This strong role of the feminine in Tibetan mystical art is common to the chapels of monasteries and nunneries alike as well as communal meditation hermitages and stands in sharp contrast to the predominance of male images seen in the temples of most other Buddhist countries. But who are these female buddha forms and what do they represent? What is their place in Tibet's rich spiritual, philosophical and artistic worlds? This book is a pioneering attempt to find answers to these important questions.
https://www.amazon.com/Female-Buddhas-Enlightenment-Tibetan-Mystical/dp/1574160680/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(The Second Dalai Lama's writings and biography are brough...)
The Second Dalai Lama's writings and biography are brought vividly to life in this extraordinary book by the renowned translator Glenn Mullin through a selection of the Second Dalai Lama's ecstatic outpourings of enlightened teaching.
https://www.amazon.com/Second-Dalai-Lama-Teachings-2005-09-02/dp/B01K17GY5Q/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(This catalog presents Tibetan paintings that explore the ...)
This catalog presents Tibetan paintings that explore the theme of flying as a spiritual power.
https://www.amazon.com/Flying-Mystics-Tibetan-Buddhism/dp/1932476180/?tag=2022091-20
2006
(The lineage of the reincarnated line of Dalai Lamas has h...)
The lineage of the reincarnated line of Dalai Lamas has held primary spiritual authority and, until recently, temporal power in Tibet since the beginning of the fifteenth century. The translations in this book represent a curated set of their writings specifically on tantra, the advanced path of Tibetan Buddhism in which practitioners use a variety of methods and techniques to directly overcome delusion and conflicting emotions.
https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Chenrezig-Dalai-Lamas-Tantra-ebook/dp/B00DMC5HEM/?tag=2022091-20
2013
Ethnicity:
Mullin is a son of an Irish-Canadian father and a British mother.
Glenn Mullin was born on June 22, 1949, in Gaspe, Quebec, Canada, to Alan, a contractor, and Marjorie Joan (Wilkes) Mullin.
Mullin attended Mount Allison University in 1967. As a teen Mullin's interest turned to Asian spiritual literature. The great classics of India, Persia, China, and Japan profoundly enthralled him, and Glenn devoured them with gusto. To really explore this literature he had to learn the language. His little research revealed that not much could be accomplished in this respect in North America, but that the Dalai Lama had opened a small college for Westerners in India. In 1972, Mullin made the journey east and joined the program. He studied at Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, in Dharamsala, India, from 1972 to 1978, and at Institute of Buddhist Dialectics, in Dharamsala.
Mullin took up professional writing after spending five-or-so years studying Tibetan culture at the Buddhist Studies Program of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, a small college founded by the Dalai Lama at his ‘home in exile’ in the Himalayas. Glenn is the author of over twenty-five books on Tibetan Buddhism.
In addition to producing his literary works, he worked as a script consultant in the production of Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy, a series of three Tibet documentaries from Thread Cross Films in England, 1979-81, and five television documentaries. He served as field coordinator and wrote the sleeve notes to four different recordings of Tibetan sacred music, and Glenn coproduced one of them.
Between writing projects Mullin undertakes occasional lecture and reading tours around the world. The last one took him to Australia and the United States West Coast. The one before that included Italy, Spain, France, the Czech Republic, England, and Wales. Another took him to Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, India, and Nepal. Mullin also led two annual pilgrimages (spring and fall) to Tibet.
Glenn has also curated a number of important Tibetan art exhibitions. In 1995 Glenn was asked to curate an exhibition of the sacred art of the Dalai Lamas for an Atlanta museum, in honor of the 1996 Summer Olympics there. Later he curated a further half dozen Tibetan Buddhist art exhibitions for other museums across the US.
Glenn H. Mullin is most commonly known as primarily a nonfiction writer of books on Tibet, Tibetan Buddhism, and the Dalai Lamas. Half a dozen of his works have been translated and published in other languages, including German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Czech, and Chinese.
In 2002 his book The Fourteen Dalai Lamas was nominated for the prestigious NAPRA award for best book, and in 2004 his book The Female Buddhas won a Best Book Award from Foreword Magazine.
The author was also made an Honorary international citizen of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States in 1994, and an Honorary ambassador of Arkansas by Governor Bill Clinton 1989.
(This fascinating book draws from nine Tibetan texts -- in...)
1986(The Second Dalai Lama's writings and biography are brough...)
2005(The book covers topics such as meditation techniques to p...)
1986(Any visitor to a Tibetan temple will be impressed by the ...)
2003(The lineage of the reincarnated line of Dalai Lamas has h...)
2013(This catalog presents Tibetan paintings that explore the ...)
2006(Lyrical mystic verses of the Second Dalai Lama translated...)
1994(The Kalachakra spiritual legacy is a vital and central pa...)
1991(The Seventh Dalai Lama was one of the most beloved Buddhi...)
1999Glenn Mullin has no interest in politics, other than in human rights issues and social ideals.
Of all Tibetan literary figures, perhaps the most important for Glenn were the Dalai Lama incarnations, especially the first seven in the line (1391-1757). These literary giants established the Dalai Lama legacy as Central Asia’s most dynamic incarnation lineage. However, very little was known in the Western world at that time about these important personages, and not a single work by any of them had been translated. Mullin decided to make them the focus of his own writing and began a series of books.
His approach to the work is somewhat as follows. First, he reads some of the Tibetan biographical materials on the subject, as well as historical materials related to the period. Next, he peruses the many dozens of texts he has written. After this, Glen creates a biographical sketch of the subject and select a number of his texts, including poems and essays, that seem to represent him as a writer, thinker, and spiritual leader. This then has to be shaped into a literary package that will be accessible to a Western reader. Mullin writes books for popular consumption, not for the academic crowd.
Quotations: "Nothing else interests me as a full-time endeavor. Gardening is fun; cooking is a delight; and the engineering for which I was trained is an impressive field of knowledge. None of them can inspire the joys that come from writing: from feeling a book take shape within one’s hands and from seeing blank pages become filled with words that transport the mind to magical places of mystery and charm.”
In 1986 Glenn formed The Mystical Arts of Tibet Inc., which brought Tibetan monks to North America to perform sacred temple music and dance and create sacred sand mandalas. These were the first “Lama Tours” in America, and several of them visited a hundred or so cities in its year on the road.
In 1973, Mullin married Roberta Mandel, but they divorced in 1985. On January 18, 1996, he married Debby Ruth. Mullin has three sons and four daughters - Tenzin, Jason, and Atisha, Stasha, Lhamo, Maria, and Sujata.
