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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Table of 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: Tsangyon 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: The life of Jetsun Mila by Gampopa; Appendix 2: text colophons, English translations, and Tibetan transcriptions.
  • Appendix 3: Text outlines and concordances; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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