The Yogin and the Madman
Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Eastern Religions, Buddhism, Biography & Memoir, Religious
| Author: | Andrew Quintman | ISBN: | 9780231535533 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press | Publication: | November 5, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Columbia University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Andrew Quintman |
| ISBN: | 9780231535533 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press |
| Publication: | November 5, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Columbia University Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
