The yogin & the madman : reading the biographical corpus of Tibet's great saint Milarepa
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The yogin & the madman : reading the biographical corpus of Tibet's great saint Milarepa
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- The yogin & the madman : reading the biographical corpus of Tibet's great saint Milarepa
- Title remainder
- reading the biographical corpus of Tibet's great saint Milarepa
- Statement of responsibility
- Andrew Quintman
- Title variation
- Yogin and the madman
- Subject
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- China -- Tibet Region
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Lamas -- Tibet Region -- Biography | History and criticism
- Mi-la-ras-pa, 1040-1123
- Mi-la-ras-pa, 1040-1123
- RELIGION -- Buddhism | Tibetan
- RELIGION -- Comparative Religion
- Religion
- Religion in Africa
- Religion, Jewish Studies, Theology
- Biography as a literary form
- Biography as a literary form
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 rel
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- LGG
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- South Asia Across the Disciplines
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