The Treasury of Lives

Andrew Quintman is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Wesleyan University. He completed his PhD in Buddhist Studies at the University of Michigan in 2006.

Published April 2010

Bibliography

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Martin, Dan. 1982. "The Early Education of Milarepa." The Journal of the Tibet Society 2: 53-76.

Quintman, Andrew. 2008. "Toward a Geographic Biography: Milarepa's Life in the Tibetan Landscape." Numen 55, no. 4: 363-410.

Quintman, Andrew. 2010. The Life of Milarepa. Translated by Andrew Quintman. New York: Penguin Classics.

Quintman, Andrew. 2013. "Wrinkles in Time: On the Problem of Mi la ras pa's Dates." Acta Orientalia 74: 3–26.

Quintman, Andrew. 2014. The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet’s Great Saint Milarepa. New York: Columbia University Press.

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Sernesi, Marta. 2004. "Milarepa's Six Secret Songs: The Early Transmission of the Bde-Mchog Snyan Brgyud." East and West 54, no. 1-4: 251-87.

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