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

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

South Asia Across the Disciplines

Andrew Quintman

314 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography history religion informative reflective medium-paced
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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 Q...

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