The yogin & the madman : reading the biographical corpus of Tibet's great saint Milarepa /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2013
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| Series: | South Asia across the disciplines.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
