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Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa
By: Andrew Quintman

Yogin and the Madman


 
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Author: Andrew Quintman
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780231164146
Publication Date: 2013


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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 Tsangnyn Heruka, or the "Madman of Western Tibet." Quintman imagines these works as a kind of physical body supplanting the yogin's corporeal relics.

Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa, Andrew Quintman, Columbia University Press, Paperback, 314 Pages, $35.00


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