Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 442 g
Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa
Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 442 g
Reihe: South Asia Across the Disciplines
ISBN: 978-0-231-16415-3
Verlag: Columbia University Press
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.
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- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöses Leben und religiöse Praxis
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Tibetischer Buddhismus
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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Earliest Sources: A Biographical Birth2. Proto-Lives: Formations of a Skeletal Biography3. Biographical Compendia: Lives Made Flesh4. A New Standard: Tsangnyön Heruka's Life and Songs of Milarepa5. The Yogin and the Madman: A Life Brought to Life6. ConclusionsEpilogue: Mila Comes Alive!List of AbbreviationsAppendix 1: Gampopa's Life of Jetsün MilaAppendix 2: ColophonsAppendix 3: Outlines and ConcordancesNotesBibliographyIndex
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