Andrew Quintman (Livres)

Andrew Quintman Livres

Andrew Quintman est un éminent spécialiste des traditions bouddhistes du Tibet et de l'Himalaya. Son travail se concentre sur la littérature bouddhiste, l'histoire, la géographie sacrée et les cultures visuelles de la région himalayenne élargie. Quintman explore les cultures religieuses et littéraires dans les régions frontalières du Tibet et du Népal, ainsi que la vie du Bouddha à travers des matériaux visuels et littéraires. Sa recherche plonge profondément dans le patrimoine spirituel et artistique de la région, offrant aux lecteurs un aperçu captivant du bouddhisme tibétain.

The Yogin and the Madman

314pages
11 heures de lecture

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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.