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

by Andrew Quintman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231164157
• ISBN13: 9780231164153
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher