Description: Yogin & the Madman : Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa, Paperback by Quintman, Andrew, ISBN 0231164157, ISBN-13 9780231164153, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Tibetan biographers began writing Jetsun Milarepas (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 genres most famous example, composed in 1488 by Tsangnyn Heruka, or the "Madman of Western Tibet." Quintman imagines these works as a kind of physical body supplanting the yogins corporeal relics.
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Book Title: Yogin & the Madman : Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's G
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Yogin and the Madman : Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2013
Item Height: 0.1 in
Subject: Buddhism / History, Buddhism / Tibetan, Religious, General
Item Weight: 19.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Andrew Quintman
Item Length: 0.9 in
Subject Area: Religion, Biography & Autobiography
Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines Ser.
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
