Glenn H. Mullin is the author of over 25 books on Tibetan Buddhism, including "Mystical Songs of a Mad Dalai Lama" with the Theosophical Publishing House. He has taught at the Theosophical Society in Wheaton every year for over twenty years now, as well as in numerous other TS lodges around the world. He has led several dozen spiritual adventures and pilgrimages into Tibet, Nepal and Mongolia over the past decades, including one for the TS to Tibet back in 1996. Traditional Tibet is rapidly disappearing, and this might be one of the last opportunities to know it in the way that Blavatsky and Olcott did.
Glenn lived in the Indian Himalayas between 1972 and 1984, where he studied philosophy, literature, meditation, yoga and the enlightenment culture under thirty-five of the greatest living masters of the four schools of Tibetan Buddhism. His two principal tantric gurus were the late great masters Kyabje Ling Dorjechang and Kyabje Trijang Dorjechang, who were best known as Yongdzin Che Chung, the two main gurus of the present Dalai Lama. The list of Glenn’s other teachers and initiation masters includes the Dalai Lama, Sakya Trizin Rinpoche, Kalu Rinpoche, Ngakpa Yeshe Dorje Rinpoche, Tai Situ Rinpoche, Khenchen Konchok Gyaltsen, Geshe Ngawang Dargyey, Geshey Rabten and Gongsar Tulku.
After returning from India in 1984 Glenn founded and directed The Mystical Arts of Tibet, an association of Dharma friends that was instrumental in bringing the first tours of Tibetan monks to North America to perform sacred temple music and dance, as well as create mandala sand paintings. He gave this to Drepung Loseling Monastery in 1994, and it continues to bring Tibetan spiritual culture on tours around the world.
Glenn has also curated a number of important Tibetan
art exhibitions. The first of these, "The Art of
Compassion", was created for Tibet House in New
Delhi, and toured Europe for two years. Another, entitled
"The Mystical Arts of Tibet, featuring personal sacred
objects of HH the Dalai Lama", was created for the Summer
Olympics of 1996 as a joint project with The Drepung
Loseling Institute (DLI) and the Oglethorpe University
Museum of Art (OUMA). It premiered in Atlanta during
the Summer Olympics of 1996, and then for the six years
to follow toured North America. Recently (in 2001) Glenn
curated "The Female Buddha: Women of Enlightenment in
Tibetan Mysticism" as a joint project with OUMA and
the Rubin Museum of Art in New York (RMA). In 2003 he
curated "The Flying Mystics of Tibetan Buddhism",
again as a joint project between OUMA and the RMA. He
also wrote the readers that accompanied these four exhibits.
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