Tibetan Buddhism Vajranaya by Lama Glenn

Glenn H. Mullin

Glenn Mullin is the author of over thirty books on Tibetan Buddhism, many of which have been translated into a dozen foreign languages. His earlier titles focus on the lives and works of the early Dalai Lamas. Other titles of his elucidate practice traditions such as Lam Rim, Lojong, the Six Yogas of Naropa, Kalachakra, and so forth. He has been an international teacher of Tantric Buddhist meditation for the past twenty-five years.

Glenn lived in Dharamsala, India, for some fifteen years. There he studied under twenty-five of the greatest masters of Tibet, including the Dalai Lama and his two main gurus.

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 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. He has also worked on four Tibet-based films and six television projects.

Glenn now divides his time between writing, teaching, and leading pilgrimages to the power places of Tibet.

https://www.shambhala.com/authors/g-n/glenn-h-mullin.html

2012.5.30
Buddha Birth & Enlightenment Day in Korea

2012.6.3

I arrived back in Mongolia last night, with the hope of getting a China visa. If all goes well, I will then be off to Kailash. Wish me luck.

2012.6.4

Today, June 4th, is Saga Dawa, Buddha's birth, enlightenment and passing celebration day. HE Tilopa Rinpoche from the US organiuzed for the FPMT people to bring the Relic Tour to town. I arrived Saturday night from Korea. The Relic Tour opened this Monday morning at 10 AM. Filmmakers Tenzin and Ritu were on hand, and Panchen Ostrul. A full house, and a good time had by all.

2012.6.4

Photo 2 of Relic Tour event

2012.6.23

For people who liked the Demchok Monastery video short, South Gobi, here's a model of the rebuilding project. The monastery was one of 12 created by Danzan Rabjaa, 1803-1856, a contemporary of the 9th Dalai Lama. I made a YouTube video on his main place, "Shambhala in the Gobi," which has breasts of the Mother, and the birth passage. Demchok Hrid, a few hundred miles west along the southern ridge of the Gobi Mountains, has an enormous rock shaped like a penis. All 12 of his retreat centers were built on sited with sexy formations. During his life he wrote several thousand poems, drank three bottles of vodka a day, and made love to 5,000 beautiful women. Such is the legend. I edited Mike Kohn's book on his life, "Lama of the Gobi," back in 2006, in honor of the 150th anniversary of his parinirvana. You can probably find it with Amazon. Anyway, Danzan Rabjaa is the most deeply honored Mongolian saint of the last 200 years, perhaps second in history only to Zanabazar himself. In addition, he write and stages 12 Indo-European style operas, and took them on the road as part of his enlightenment activity. His tulku name is Noyun Hugatht, or "Noyun Incarnation." He was kind of a lama prince of the south and southeast Gobi. For people who love deserts, the Gobi is amazing, bursting with wild flowers in particular seasons.

2012.6.23

The stupa complex and somewhat puggy penis

2012.7.5
Glenn Mullin in Mongolia, with Prof Bira and Ishdorj, Mongolia

Glenn Mullin and Chicago Polish Dharma Center

Glenn Mullin and Eric Vali at the Moulin Rouge, Paris

Glenn Mullin with Mongolian President Elbikdorj

Glenn Mullin at Mt Kailash

Glenn Mullin at Tsetseguen Peak, Bogd Mountains, Mongolia

Glenn Mullin and Janet Galipo in Parping, Nepal

Glenn Mullin and Hilary Shearman at Lhasa

Glenn Mullin riding camels with Lama Gundusambo in Mongolia

Glenn Mullin and Robert Thurman at Tibet House, NY, Dec 2012

Glenn Mullin, a Mongolian artist rendition

Glenn Mullin with former Mongolian President Enkhbayer

Glenn Mullin with the Dalai Lama "Mystical Arts of Tibet" exhibit opening, Oglethorpe Museum, Atlanta, 1998

Glenn Mullin and Mongolian wrestling champions and the late great Baasan Lama, Ulaanbaatar 2006

Glenn Mullin and Mongolian shaman

Glenn Mullin at Mt Everest

Glenn Mullin, Powerbook ad, 1991, which won the Grand Effie, "Best Ad of the Year"

Glenn Mullin with Olivia Hansen and the Tibetan Prime Minister Lobsang Senge

Glenn Mullin and Scott Engel in Tibet House, Dec 2012 — with Scott Engel

Profile

Glenn H. Mullin is a Tibetologist, Buddhist writer, translator of classical Tibetan literature, and teacher of Tantric Buddhist meditation. He divides his time between writing, teaching, meditating, and leading tour groups to the power places of Nepal and Tibet.

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, Lama Tubten Yeshe, Geshe Ngawang Dargye, Denma Locho Rinpoche, and Gelek Rinpoche.

Glenn is the author of over 30 books on Tibetan Buddhism. Many of these (published by Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca, NY) focus on the lives and works of the early Dalai Lamas. Some of his other titles include Tsongkhapa’s Six Yogas of Naropa and The Practice of Kalachakra (Snow Lion); Death and Dying: The Tibetan Tradition (Arkana/Viking Penguin); Mystical Verses of a Mad Dalai Lama (Quest Books); The Mystical Arts of Tibet (Longstreet Press); and The Fourteen Dalai Lamas, as well as The Female Buddhas (Clear Light Books). He has also worked as a field specialist on three Tibet-related films and five television documentaries, and has co-produced five audio recordings of Tibetan sacred music, check out Up Town Jungle. 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.

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 g. 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.

As well as leading tour groups to the Buddhist power places of Nepal and Tibet, Glenn acts as consultant and advisor to independent groups wanting to travel safely and meaningfully through these sacred sites.

You can contact Glenn by email at the following address: glennhmullin@gmail.com

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