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Author : David Michael DiValerio
Release : 2011
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Book Synopsis Subversive Sainthood and Tantric Fundamentalism by : David Michael DiValerio
Download or read book Subversive Sainthood and Tantric Fundamentalism written by David Michael DiValerio. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David M. DiValerio
Release : 2015
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Holy Madmen of Tibet by : David M. DiValerio
Download or read book The Holy Madmen of Tibet written by David M. DiValerio. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the past millennium, certain Tibetan Buddhist yogins have taken on profoundly norm-overturning modes of dress and behavior, including draping themselves in human remains, consuming filth, provoking others to violence, and even performing sacrilege. They became known far and wide as "madmen" (smyon pa, pronounced nyönpa), achieving a degree of saintliness in the process. This book offers the first comprehensive study of Tibet's "holy madmen" drawing on their biographies and writings, as well as tantric commentaries, later histories, oral traditions, and more. Much of The Holy Madmen of Tibet is dedicated to examining the lives and legacies of the three most famous "holy madmen" who were all of the Kagyü sect: the Madman of Tsang (author of The Life of Milarepa), the Madman of Ü, and Drukpa Künlé, Madman of the Drukpa Kagyü. Each born in the 1450s, they rose to prominence during a period of civil war and of great shifts in Tibet's religious culture. By focusing on literature written by and about the "holy madmen" and on the yogins' relationships with their public, this book offers in-depth looks at the narrative and social processes out of which sainthood arises, and at the role biographical literature can play in the formation of sectarian identities. By showing how understandings of the "madmen" have changed over time, this study allows for new insights into current notions of "crazy wisdom." In the end, the "holy madmen" are seen as self-aware and purposeful individuals who were anything but insane.
Author : Andrew Quintman
Release : 2013-11-12
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Yogin and the Madman by : Andrew Quintman
Download or read book The Yogin and the Madman written by Andrew Quintman. This book was released on 2013-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Massimo A. Rondolino
Release : 2017-01-12
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Hagiographical Strategies by : Massimo A. Rondolino
Download or read book Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Hagiographical Strategies written by Massimo A. Rondolino. This book was released on 2017-01-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the potential of conducting studies in comparative hagiology, through parallel literary and historical analyses of spiritual life writings pertaining to distinct religious contexts. In particular, it focuses on a comparative analysis of the early sources on the medieval Christian Saint Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) and the Tibetan Buddhist Milarepa (c. 1052-1135), up to and including the so-called ‘standard versions’ of their life stories written by Bonaventure of Bagnoregio (1221-1274) and Tsangnyön Heruka (1452-1507) respectively. The book thus demonstrates how in the social and religious contexts of both 1200s Italy and 1400s Tibet, narratives of the lives, deeds and teachings of two individuals recognized as spiritual champions were seen as the most effective means to promote spiritual, doctrinal and political agendas. Therefore, as well being highly relevant to those studying hagiographical sources, this book will be of interest to scholars working across the fields of religion and the comparative study of religious phenomena, as well as history and literature in the pre-modern period.
Author : བློ་གསལ་དོན་གྲུབ།
Release : 2024-04-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Gongkar Lamdre: Masters in Khyenluk Style by : བློ་གསལ་དོན་གྲུབ།
Download or read book The Gongkar Lamdre: Masters in Khyenluk Style written by བློ་གསལ་དོན་གྲུབ།. This book was released on 2024-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tibetan text by Losal Dondup (Gongkar Choede); English text by Mathias Fermer (University of Vienna, Austria). Dehradun: Gongkar Choede Monastery, 2024. Tibetan and English; 312 mm x 252 mm; 216 illustrations, appendices A-D.
