Yogin and the Madman, The: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa
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Pages:   331
Publication Date:   01 January 2013
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Yogin and the Madman, The: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa


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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 Tsangnyon 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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Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
ISBN:  

9781306309806


ISBN 10:   1306309808
Pages:   331
Publication Date:   01 January 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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