Meher Baba's Life & Travels
HUGH FLICK
Dr. Hugh Meredith Flick, Jr.
Born : 19th February 1946 - Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Parents : Hugh and Carol Flick
Ass. Professor & Lecturer of Eastern Religious Studies
American
(A.B.; A.M.; M.Ed.; M.B.A.; J.D.; Ph.D.) is a Teaching Associate at Coastal Carolina University. He has served as an Assistant Professor of Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University and as a Lecturer at Yale University in the Religious Studies Department and the South Asian Studies Program. At Yale, he also served as the Dean of Silliman College. He is a US Navy Vietnam War Veteran and has traveled extensively throughout Mexico, Latin America, India, Asia, and Africa. He has served as the Faculty Lecturer on a Yale Alumni Association tour of India; as the Study Leader on a Harvard Alumni Tour of Mystical India, as the Lecturer on a Smithsonian Institution tour of Legendary Peru, and as a Professor on the University of Virginia’s 2015 Spring Semester at Sea.
Click on the link to see the video in January 2026 telling his story.
https://vimeo.com/1155551174/16d5baa5f7?fl=pl&fe=cm
Click on the following Word file to read Hugh Flick's translation of the Bhagavad Gita.
Click on the following Word file to read Hugh Flick's translation of the Guhyatama of Ekatvam.
Education
Bachelor, Harvard College, 1968; Master of Education, Lealey College, 1976; Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1981; Juris Doctor, Quinnipiac College, 1995.
Ph.D. in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
A.M. in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
M.Ed. Lesley University Graduate School of Education, Cambridge
M.B.A. Southern Connecticut State University
J.D. Quinnipiac University School of Law, Hamden, CT
A.B. Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
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https://www.facebook.com/hugh.flick.1/
https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/article/tibet-kanjur-1
https://yaledailynews.com/articles/the-secret-life-of-the-yale-professor
July 14, 2025 live on Baba Zoom
Hugh relates his visit to Hamirpur in 1973 and coming to Baba.
BOOK PUBLISHED
1996
Hardcover
131 pages
Publisher : Sri Satguru Publications
This book contains a detailed introduction, Sanskrit sources of Masuraksa's verses, Translation of the Tibetan Text of the Nitisastra of Masuraksa with annotations of occurrences in Sanskrit literature. Masuraksa's text is an important contribution towards understanding the cultural interaction between India and Tibet. It was selected by the Tibetan compiles of bsTan 'Gyur as piece of secular Indian literature worth translating and preserving in their Sacred literature.
Images of Hugh Flick's past incarnations
