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The Yogin and the Madman
The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa
The first systematic study of how Milarepa's life was built over four centuries: the biographies by Gampopa and Ngendzong, the compilations of the Twelve Great Disciples and the Black Treasury, and Tsangnyön Heruka's rewriting and printing. The essential reference for telling the transmitted from the invented.
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Authorship note
Monograph by Andrew Quintman (Columbia University Press).
Editions and translations
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English
The Yogin and the Madman
Columbia University Press, 2014
ISBN 9780231164153
Other works by Milarepa
- The Life of Milarepa (Namthar) · 1488
- The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa (Mgur 'bum) · 1488
- Drinking the Mountain Stream: Songs of Tibet's Beloved Saint · 1978
- Sixty Songs of Milarepa · 1966
- Milarepa: Lessons from the Life and Songs of Tibet's Great Yogi · 2017
- Miraculous Journey: Further Stories and Songs of Milarepa · 1986
Sources
- Quintman, Andrew. The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa. Nueva York: Columbia University Press, 2014. ISBN 9780231164153.
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