Awards

• Commended for E. Gene Smith Inner Asia Book Prize 2016
• Commended for E. Gene Smith Inner Asia Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies 2016
• Commended for E. Gene Smith Inner Asia Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies 2016
• Winner of Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion for Textual Studies 2014
• Winner of Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion for Textual Studies 2017
• Winner of Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication 2017

Overview

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

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The Yogin and the Madman is the most important scholarly monograph yet published about the literary tradition surrounding the greatest single work in Tibetan literature, and will do more than any study before it to begin to give us historical access to the life (and lives) of Tibet's most revered and influential yogin and poet, Milarepa. -- Roger R. Jackson, Carleton College

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Andrew Quintman is assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University.

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