The Yogin and the Madman
Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa
Seiten
2013
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-16415-3 (ISBN)
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-16415-3 (ISBN)
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 Tsangnyon Heruka, or the "Madman of Western Tibet." Quintman imagines these works as a kind of physical body supplanting the yogin's corporeal relics.
Andrew Quintman is assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University.
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Earliest Sources: A Biographical Birth 2. Proto-Lives: Formations of a Skeletal Biography 3. Biographical Compendia: Lives Made Flesh 4. A New Standard: Tsangnyon Heruka's Life and Songs of Milarepa 5. The Yogin and the Madman: A Life Brought to Life 6. Conclusions Epilogue: Mila Comes Alive! List of Abbreviations Appendix 1: Gampopa's Life of Jetsun Mila Appendix 2: Colophons Appendix 3: Outlines and Concordances Notes Bibliography Index
| Reihe/Serie | South Asia Across the Disciplines |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus |
| ISBN-10 | 0-231-16415-7 / 0231164157 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-231-16415-3 / 9780231164153 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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