Andrew Quintman (Book order)

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Andrew Quintman is a leading scholar of Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist traditions. His work focuses on Buddhist literature, history, sacred geography, and the visual cultures of the wider Himalayan region. Quintman explores religious and literary cultures in the borderlands of Tibet and Nepal, as well as the life of the Buddha through visual and literary materials. His research delves deeply into the region's spiritual and artistic heritage, offering readers a compelling insight into Tibetan Buddhism.

The Yogin and the Madman

314 pages
11 hours of reading

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Winner of the American Academy of Religion's 2014 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Textual Studies and the 2015 Heyman Prize for outstanding scholarship from Yale University. 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.