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

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by Andrew Quintman

Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Published
November 2013
Weight
545g

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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 Tsangny n Heruka, or the "Madman of Western Tibet." Quintman imagines these works as a kind of physical body supplanting the yogin's corporeal relics.