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Glenn H. Mullin (born June 22, 1949 in Quebec, Canada) is a Tibetologist, Buddhist writer, translator of classical Tibetan literature and teacher of Tantric Buddhist meditation.
Mullin has written over twenty-five books on Tibetan Buddhism. Many of these 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. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_H._Mullin Source Accessed Dec 6, 2023]) +
Glenn Wallis holds a Ph.D. in Buddhist studies from Harvard University's Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies. His scholarly work focuses on various aspects of Buddhism. He has also written on the prospects of making classical Buddhist literature, philosophy, and practice relevant to contemporary life. Most recently, though, he has become interested in the covertly ideological function of Buddhism in the contemporary West, and so has turned his attention to criticism. Drawing from François Laruelle's work in non-philosophy, he is calling his critical work non-buddhism. ([https://independent.academia.edu/GlennWallis1 Adapted from Source July 12, 2023]) +
Godard Hendrik Schokker was born in Batavia on December 4 1929. He studied Indian languages and theology at Groningen University. From 1965-1995 he was a lecturer of New Indo-Aryan languages at the Kern Institute, Leiden University. In 1966 he earned a PhD under the supervision of F.B.J. Kuiper, Leiden University. He retired in 1995. ([https://www.dutchstudies-satsea.nl/deelnemers/schokker-godard-hendrik/ Adapted from Source July 3, 2023]) +
Gomo Tulku (1922-1985), an accomplished Buddhist master, was born in Tibet. In his last year he taught widely in Europe where he inspired many devoted students. ([https://wisdomexperience.org/content-author/gomo-tulku/ Source Accessed Mar 12, 2025]) +
Gongdezhi was a translator who lived in the 5th century. He translated the ''Anantamukhasādhakadhāraṇī'' 無量門破魔陀羅尼經 (''Wúliàng mén pò mó tuóluóní jīng''), T1014, 19: https://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT2012/T1014.html. +
The present Gonsar Tulku Rinpoche was born in 1949 in Shigatse, Tibet, into an ancient royal family of the lineage of Tibetan kings. His father was the governor of Tsang Province in western Tibet. At the age of three, Gonsar Tulku Rinpoche was recognized as the fifth incarnation of Gonsar Tulku Rinpoche and confirmed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. ([https://www.dig-heidelberg.de/events/religions-and-peace-a-buddhist-monks-view-on-india-by-gonsar-rinpoche/ Source Accessed Mar 13, 2025]). +
Gordon Davis’s research includes both historical work on ethical, political and metaphysical themes in the works of Hume, Kant and their contemporaries, and investigations into the applicability of methods of argument developed by these philosophers – as well as neo-Humean and neo-Kantian variations – to contemporary debates in ethics and metaethics. One of Gordon’s current projects explores the prospects for a theoretical synthesis of key elements within the three main traditions of contemporary ethical theory (consequentialism, Kantian deontology and virtue ethics). He also has a strong interest in applied ethics – especially issues surrounding biotechnology and obligations to future generations. ([https://carleton.ca/philosophy/people/davis-gordon/ Source Accessed Apr 16, 2021]) +
Gordon McDougall was director of Cham Tse Ling, the FPMT’s Hong Kong center, for two years in the 1980s and worked for Jamyang Buddhist Centre in London from 2000 to 2007. He helped develop the Foundation of Buddhist Thought study program and administered it for seven years. Since 2008 he has been editing Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s lamrim teachings for Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive’s FPMT Lineage series. ([https://wisdomexperience.org/content-author/gordon-mcdougall/ Source Accessed Feb 23, 2021]) +
Graham Coleman is writer and director of the acclaimed feature documentary ''Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy''. He studied Tibetan language and literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and between 1976 and 1989 received teachings on Tibetan Buddhist theory and practice, privately, from H. H. the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, H. H. Trijang Rinpoche, H. H. Dudjom Rinpoche, H. H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, and H. E. the Sixth Tharig Rinpoche. He has been chief executive of the Orient Foundation for Arts and Culture since 1983, and since 1988 has co-managed the creation of Tibetan-knowledge.org, one of the world’s largest online multimedia archives of classical Tibetan knowledge. From 2014 to the present he has co-managed the formation of Gompa – Tibetan Monastery Services in cooperation with senior Tibetan lamas and the major monasteries and nunneries of India and Nepal. He is editor of ''A Handbook of Tibetan Culture'' (Rider, 1993), the first complete translation of the ''Tibetan Book of the Dead'' (Penguin Classics, 2005), and ''Meditations on Living, Dying, and Loss'' (Penguin, 2008). (Source: [https://wisdomexperience.org/wisdom-podcast/graham-coleman/ Wisdom Experience]) +
Graham E. Clarke (United Kingdom) (d. 1998) was coordinator of anthropology and development at Queens House in Oxford. A social anthropologist, he specialized in developmental issues, conducting field research in Nepal and Tibet. Hew was a member of the Panam Project Identification Mission of the European Community of Tibet. (Source: ''Imagining Tibet'', List of Contributors, 453) +
Graham Priest is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Boyce Gibson Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne. He is known for his work on non-classical logic, metaphysics, the history of philosophy, and Buddhist philosophy. He has published over 300 articles—in nearly every major philosophy and logic journal—and seven books—mostly with Oxford University Press. Further details can be found at: grahampriest.net. ([https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Philosophy/Faculty-Bios/Graham-Priest Source Accessed Dec 2, 2019]) +
Gray Tuttle studies the history of twentieth century Sino-Tibetan relations as well as Tibet’s relations with the China-based Manchu Qing Empire. The role of Tibetan Buddhism in these historical relations is central to all his research. In his Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China (Columbia UP, 2005), he examines the failure of nationalism and race-based ideology to maintain the Tibetan territory of the former Qing empire as integral to the Chinese nation-state. Instead, he argues, a new sense of pan-Asian Buddhism was critical to Chinese efforts to hold onto Tibetan regions (one quarter of China’s current territory). His current research project, “Amdo Tibet, Middle Ground between Lhasa and Beijing (1578-1865),” is a historical analysis of the economic and cultural relations between China and Tibet in the early modern periods (16th – 19th centuries) when the intellectual and economic centers of Tibet shifted to the east, to Amdo — a Tibetan cultural region the size of France in northwestern China. Deploying Richard White’s concept of the “Middle Ground” in the context of two mature civilizations — Tibetan and Chinese — encountering one another, this book will examine how this contact led to three dramatic areas of growth that defined early modern Tibet: 1) the advent of mass monastic education, 20 the bureaucratization of reincarnate lamas’ charisma and 3) the development of modern conceptions of geography that reshaped the way Tibet was imagined. ([http://ealac.columbia.edu/gray-tuttle/ Source Accessed March 30, 2020]) +
Dr. Gregory Forgues is Director of Research at Tsadra Foundation. Before joining the foundation, Gregory was part of the Open Philology research project with Professor Jonathan Silk at the University of Leiden. He also worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Heidelberg and a Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Bochum. Gregory has published on a wide variety of topics including Mahāyāna sūtra translations, Tibetan tantric rituals, Dzogchen teachings, and digital humanities methods. His PhD dissertation on Jamgon Mipham’s interpretation of the two truths under Professor Klaus-Dieter Mathes' supervision was reviewed by Professor Birgit Kellner and Professor Matthew Kapstein, receiving a distinction from the University of Vienna. +
Greg Hillis taught Sanskrit and Tibetan languages as well as other Asian religion courses in the Religious Studies Department at UCSB from the early 2000s until his retirement in 2023. He received his PhD from the University of Virginia. +
Greg Mileski is a second-year PhD student at Boston College where he works with Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophies and Christian theologies around the issues of selfhood, cosmology, and social action. He began his academic career with a BA in Religious Studies from the University of Pittsburgh and, after a stint in Teach For America, earned an MDiv from Trinity Lutheran Seminary and an MA in Religious Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder. He has published on aspects of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity in the journals ''Resonance'', ''NEXT'', and ''Glossolalia''. He is ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. ([https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/mcas/departments/theology/people/grad-students/mileski--gregory.html Source Accessed Jan 12, 2021]) +
Grigory Maksimovich Bongard-Levin (Russian: Григорий Максимович Бонгард-Левин) (1933–2008) was a Russian historian specializing on Ancient India and the history of Central Asia. He also published on the history of Russian emigration. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1988. In 2006 he was awarded India's third highest civilian award Padma Bhushan which ranked below Bharat Ratna and Padma Vibhushan for his contribution in the field of Ancient India history. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Bongard-Levin Source Accessed May 11, 2022]) +
Greg Seton is a scholar of both ancient and modern Buddhist texts in Tibetan and Sanskrit, specializing in Buddhist philosophy and the theoretical frameworks for the meditational practices inspired by the Buddhist “Scripture on the Perfection of Wisdom.” Initially earning a BA in Film Studies from Wesleyan University in 1990, graduating from the American Film Institute, and working in the film industry as an award-winning writer and director for nine years, he returned to academia in 2001 to do his first masters degree in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies. After receiving his DPhil in Buddhist Studies from the University of Oxford, he took a position as professor of Tibetan and Indian Buddhist Studies at Mahidol University in Thailand. Through his DAAD fellowship at the University of Hamburg in Germany, he studied and critically edited the historically important Indian commentary on the Perfection of Wisdom based on 11th and 13th century palm leaf Sanskrit manuscripts and 15th century Tibetan block prints. His study and translation of the commentary and scripture, along with his Tibetan and Sanskrit critical editions of them, is set to be published as a four volume set. ([https://religion.dartmouth.edu/people/gregory-m-seton-0 Source: Dartmouth College])
Learn more about professor Seton on his personal website: https://www.gregseton.com/about +
Gregory Schopen's work focuses on Indian Buddhist monastic life and early Mahāyāna movements. By looking beyond the Pali Canon in favor of less commonly used sources such as the Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya and Indian Buddhist inscriptions, his numerous scholarly works have shifted the field away from Buddhism as portrayed through its own doctrines toward a more realistic picture of the actual lives of Buddhists, both monastic and lay. In this sense, he has seriously challenged many assumptions and myths about Buddhism that had been long perpetuated in earlier Western scholarship. In 1985 he received the MacArthur Fellowship for his work in the field of History of Religion. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015. Four volumes of his collected articles have been published by the University of Hawai'i Press: Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters (2014), Figments and Fragments of Mahāyāna Buddhism in India (2005), Buddhist Monks and Business Matters (2004), and Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks (1999). ([https://www.international.ucla.edu/cisa/person/276 Source Accessed October 21, 2019]) +
ELMAR R. GRUBER, PhD, was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1955. He is a psychologist, an independent scholar and freelance popular-science writer, as well as a scientific advisor for radio and television in Europe. He is the author of twenty books that have been published in fifteen languages throughout the world. A longtime practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, he is a student of Drikung Chetsang Rinpoche. +
See [https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P1GS56009 TBRC] +
