The Yogin and the Madman
Download or Read eBook The Yogin and the Madman PDF written by Andrew Quintman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Andrew Quintman |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 331 |
| Release | : 2013-11-05 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780231535533 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0231535538 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Yogin and the Madman by : Andrew Quintman
Book excerpt: 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 relics.
