The Yogin and the Madman : : Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa / / 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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | South Asia Across the Disciplines
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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