The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa by Quintman, Andrew

The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780231164146)

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The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa by Quintman, Andrew

The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa

$150.00
The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa by Quintman, Andrew

The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa

$150.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 Western Tibet." Quintman imagines these works as a kind of physical body supplanting the yogin's corporeal relics.

Author: Andrew Quintman
ISBN-10: 0231164149
ISBN-13: 9780231164146
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/05/2013
Pages: 332
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d
By Andrew Quintman
By Andrew Quintman
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Andrew Quintman is associate professor of Religious Studies at Wesleyan University. He is the author of The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa (Columbia University Press 2014).

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