Details

Subject(s)

• Mi-la-ras-pa 1040-1123 [Browse]
• Lamas—Tibet Region—Biography—History and criticism [Browse]
• Biography as a literary form [Browse]

Series

• South Asia across the disciplines [More in this series]
• South Asia Across the Disciplines

Summary note

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Print version record.

ISBN

• 0231535538 ((electronic bk.))
• 9780231535533 ((electronic bk.))

OCLC

864358172

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