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

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...

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1. Verfasser: Quintman, Andrew (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Columbia University Press [2013]
Schriftenreihe:South Asia Across the Disciplines
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Zusammenfassung: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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ISBN:9780231535533

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