9780231164153-0231164157-The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa (South Asia Across the Disciplines)

The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa (South Asia Across the Disciplines)

ISBN-13: 9780231164153
ISBN-10: 0231164157
Author: Andrew Quintman
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Paperback 336 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780231164153
ISBN-10: 0231164157
Author: Andrew Quintman
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Paperback 336 pages

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The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa (South Asia Across the Disciplines) (ISBN-13: 9780231164153 and ISBN-10: 0231164157), written by authors Andrew Quintman, was published by Columbia University Press in 2013. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Religious (Leaders & Notable People) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa (South Asia Across the Disciplines) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Religious books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.63.

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Winner of the American Academy of Religion's 2014 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Textual Studies and the 2015 Heyman Prize for outstanding scholarship from Yale University. 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 Tsangnyƶn Heruka, or the "Madman of Western Tibet." Quintman imagines these works as a kind of physical body supplanting the yogin's corporeal relics.
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