Glenn H Mullin is one of the world's foremost Tibetologists. He has published approximately twenty books on Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism, including a series on the lives and teachings of the early Dalai Lamas. Mullin is an internationally renowned Buddhist scholar, an acclaimed translator of Tibetan classics, a well-known speaker on the international lecture circuit and a popular teacher of Tantric Buddhist meditation. As a youth, Mullin studied engineering at Mt Allison University, Canada, and then travelled to the Himalayas to join the Tibetan Studies Program at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, a small college for Western students that had been established by the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala. Mullin remained in Dharamsala for twelve years, where he completed the rigorous training in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and meditation, first at the LTWA and then at the Tsennyi Labtra Monastery. After this he joined the Research and Translation Bureau of the LTWA. The Dalai Lama is recognised internationally as an advocate of world peace and inter-religious understanding. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.
"Glenn Mullin's The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation offers thousands of anecdotes, facts and legends about the spiritual leaders of Tibet through over the last six centuries. Well researched and engagingly written, this may prove to be the definitive source on Tibet's Fab Fourteen." -- Publishers Weekly "Publishers Weekly"
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