The Yogin and the Madman

Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Eastern Religions, Buddhism, Biography & Memoir, Religious
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Author: Andrew Quintman ISBN: 9780231535533
Publisher: Columbia University Press Publication: November 5, 2013
Imprint: Columbia University Press Language: English
Author: Andrew Quintman
ISBN: 9780231535533
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication: November 5, 2013
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Language: English

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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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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