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We solve for the time-dependent dynamics of axisymmetric, general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic winds from rotating neutron stars. The mass loss rate is obtained self-consistently as a solution to the MHD equations, subject to a finite thermal pressure at the stellar surface. We consider both monopole and dipole magnetic field geometries and we explore the parameter regime extending from low magnetization (low-sigma_o), almost thermally-driven winds to high magnetization (high-sigma_o), relativistic Poynting-flux dominated outflows. We compute the angular momentum and rotational energy loss rates as a function of sigma_o and compare with analytic expectations from the classical theory of pulsars and magnetized stellar winds. In the case of the monopole, our high-sigma_o calculations asymptotically approach the analytic force-free limit. If we define the spindown rate in terms of the open magnetic flux, we similarly reproduce the spindown rate from recent force-free calculations of the aligned dipole. However, even for sigma_o as high as ~20, we find that the location of the Y-type point (r_Y), which specifies the radius of the last closed field line in the equatorial plane, is not the radius of the light cylinder R_L = c/omega (R = cylindrical radius), as has previously been assumed in most estimates and force-free calculations. Instead, although the Alfven radius at intermediate latitudes quickly approaches R_L as sigma_o exceeds unity, r_Y remains significantly less than R_L. Because r_Y < R_L, our calculated spindown rates thus exceed the classic ``vacuum dipole rate. We discussthe implications of our results for models of rotation-powered pulsars and magnetars, both in their observed states and in their hypothesized rapidly rotating initial state.
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