The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa
Andrew QuintmanTibetan 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 Tsangnyön Heruka, or the "Madman of Western Tibet." Quintman imagines these works as a kind of physical body supplanting the yogin's corporeal relics.
Year:
2013
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
336
ISBN 10:
0231535538
ISBN 13:
9780231535533
File:
PDF, 3.11 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2013
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