Quintman The Yogin and the Madman

Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-53553-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: South Asia Across the Disciplines

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Quintman, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöses Leben und religiöse Praxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Tibetischer Buddhismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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: Tsangnyön 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: Gampopa's Life of Jetsün Mila
Appendix 2: Colophons
Appendix 3: Outlines and Concordances
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Leseproben

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Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Quintman is assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University.