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The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa

By (author) Andrew Quintman

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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
Published date | 5 Nov 2013
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 336
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-0-2311-6415-3
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BISAC | religion / buddhism / tibetan

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