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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Quintman, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 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: Tsangnyön Heruka's Life and Songs of Milarepa --; 5. The Yogin and the Madman: A Life Brought to Life --; 6. Conclusions --; Epilogue: Mila Comes Alive! --; Abbreviations --; Appendix 1: The Life of Jetsün Mila by Gampopa --; Appendix 2: Text Colophons. English Translations and Tibetan Transcriptions --; Appendix 3: Text Outlines and Concordances --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231535533; 9783110649772; 9783110442472
• DOI: 10.7312/quin16414
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Andrew Quintman.

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.