The Yogin and the Madman Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa |
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| Author:
| Quintman, Andrew |
| Series title: | South Asia Across the Disciplines Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-16414-6 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2013 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $120.00 |
Book Description:
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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 Tsangnyön Heruka, or the "Madman of...
More DescriptionTibetan 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 relics.