The yogin & the madman : reading the biographical corpus of Tibet's great saint Milarepa /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Quintman, Andrew (Andrew H.) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
Colección:South Asia across the disciplines.
Temas:
Mi-la-ras-pa, > 1040-1123.
Lamas > Tibet Region > Biography > History and criticism.
Biography as a literary form.
Lamas (Bouddhisme) > Tibet historique > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Biographie (Genre littéraire)
biographies (literary works)
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
RELIGION > Buddhism > Tibetan.
Tibet Region.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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 rel.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0231535538
9780231535533

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