The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa
(Part of the South Asia Across the Disciplines Series)
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Tibetan biographers began writing Jetsun Milarepa's (1052-1135) life story shortly after his death, initiating a literary tradition that turned the poet and saint into a model of virtuosic Buddhist practice throughout the Himalayan world. Andrew Quintman traces this history and its innovations in narrative and aesthetic representation across four centuries, culminating in a detailed analysis of the genre's most famous example, composed in 1488 by Tsangny n Heruka, or the "Madman of Western Tibet." Quintman imagines these works as a kind of physical body supplanting the yogin's corporeal relics.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0231164149
ISBN13:9780231164146
Release Date:November 2013
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:336 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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