The yogin and the madman : reading the biographical corpus of Tibet's great saint Milarepa /
Quintman, Andrew.
The yogin and the madman : reading the biographical corpus of Tibet's great saint Milarepa / Andrew Quintman. - New York : Columbia University Press, 2014. - xi, 314 p. :
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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'.
978-0-231-53553-3
Mi-la-ras-pa, --1040-1123.
Lamas --Tibet Region--Biography--History and criticism.
Biography as a literary form.
EB180
The yogin and the madman : reading the biographical corpus of Tibet's great saint Milarepa / Andrew Quintman. - New York : Columbia University Press, 2014. - xi, 314 p. :
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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'.
978-0-231-53553-3
Mi-la-ras-pa, --1040-1123.
Lamas --Tibet Region--Biography--History and criticism.
Biography as a literary form.
EB180