The Biographies of Rechungpa
Title | The Biographies of Rechungpa PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Alan Roberts |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2007-03-12 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1135989117 |
This book traces the lifestory of Rechungpa (1084-1161) - the student of the famous teacher Milarepa - using rare and little-known manuscripts, and discovers how the image of both Milarepa and Rechungpa underwent fundamental transformations over a period of over three centuries. Peter Alan Roberts compares significant episodes in the life of Rechungpa as portrayed in a succession of texts, and thus demonstrates the evolution of Rechungpa’s biography. This is the first survey of the surviving literature which includes a detailed analysis of their dates, authorship and interrelationships. It shows how Rechungpa was increasingly portrayed as a rebellious, volatile and difficult pupil, as a lineage from a fellow-pupil prospered to become dominant in Tibet. Written in a style that makes it accessible to broad readership, Roberts' book will be of great value to anyone with an interest in the fields of Tibetan literature, history or religion.
Rechungpa
Title | Rechungpa PDF eBook |
Author | Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 130 |
Release | 2011-12-29 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781931571227 |
The Biographies of Rechungpa
Title | The Biographies of Rechungpa PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Alan Roberts |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 303 |
Release | 2007-03-12 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1135989125 |
This book traces the lifestory of Rechungpa (1084-1161) - the student of the famous teacher Milarepa - using rare and little-known manuscripts, and discovers how the image of both Milarepa and Rechungpa underwent fundamental transformations over a period of over three centuries. Peter Alan Roberts compares significant episodes in the life of Rechungpa as portrayed in a succession of texts, and thus demonstrates the evolution of Rechungpa’s biography. This is the first survey of the surviving literature which includes a detailed analysis of their dates, authorship and interrelationships. It shows how Rechungpa was increasingly portrayed as a rebellious, volatile and difficult pupil, as a lineage from a fellow-pupil prospered to become dominant in Tibet. Written in a style that makes it accessible to broad readership, Roberts' book will be of great value to anyone with an interest in the fields of Tibetan literature, history or religion.
A Spiritual Biography of Rechungpa
Title | A Spiritual Biography of Rechungpa PDF eBook |
Author | Rinpoche Thrangu |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 112 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Bkaơ-rgyud-pa lamas |
ISBN |
Rechungpa`S Spritual Biography Is One Of The Most Interesting Because Rechungpa Had A Great Deal Of Pride And Often Did Not Do What His Guru, Milarepa, Told Him To Do. As One Reads This Story One Sees How Rechungpa Interacts With His Guru And Gradually Begins To Develop True Realization.
Rechungpa, a Biography of Milarepa's Disciple
Title | Rechungpa, a Biography of Milarepa's Disciple PDF eBook |
Author | Rinpoche Thrangu |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 116 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Bkaʼ-brgyud-pa lamas |
ISBN | 9780962802683 |
Tibet's Great Yogī, Milarepa
Title | Tibet's Great Yogī, Milarepa PDF eBook |
Author | Gtsaṅ-smyon He-ru-ka |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 364 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0195133137 |
This extraordinary work is the life story of Milarepa--the important Tibetan religious leader who lived over 800 years ago. While there are many differences among the several sects of Tibetan Buddhism, each holds the Great Yogi Milarepa in the highest reverence and esteem ...
The Yogin and the Madman
Title | The Yogin and the Madman PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Quintman |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | 331 |
Release | 2013-11-05 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0231535538 |
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.