The Yogin and the Madman : Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
South Asia Across the Disciplines
ISBN-10
0231164149
ISBN-13
9780231164146
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Imprint
Columbia University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 5th, 2013
Print length
336 Pages
Product Classification:
Tibetan Buddhism
Ksh 18,000.00
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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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