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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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South Asia Across the Disciplines
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South Asia across the disciplines.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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; |
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Appendix 3: Text outlines and concordances; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Mi-la-ras-pa, 1040-1123.
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Mi-la-ras-pa, 1040-1123. |
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Mi-la-ras-pa, 1040-1123. |
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Lamas -- Tibet Region -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Lamas. |
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Tibet Region. |
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Biography. |
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Biography as a literary form.
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Biography as a literary form. |
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Electronic books.
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Yogin and the madman |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Quintman, Andrew (Andrew H.). Yogin & the madman. New York : Columbia University Press, [2014] 9780231164146 (DLC) 2012049297 (OCoLC)829444387 |
| ISBN |
0231535538 (electronic book) |
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9780231535533 (electronic book) |
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9780231164146 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0231164149 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780231164153 (paperback) |
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0231164157 (paperback) |
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