The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa
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Paperback / softback. New. 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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- The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa
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- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New
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- 2
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0231164157
- ISBN 13
- 9780231164153
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- This edition first published
- 2013-11
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