The yogin and the madman : reading the biographical corpus of Tibet's great saint Milarepa /
Published by : Columbia University Press, (New York : ) Physical details: xi, 314 p. : ISBN:978-0-231-53553-3.
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'.
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