Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa
by
Andrew Quintman
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
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...