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The Biographies of Rechungpa : The Evolution of a Tibetan Hagiography - Peter Alan Roberts

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The Biographies of Rechungpa

The Evolution of a Tibetan Hagiography

By: Peter Alan Roberts

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Hardcover | 23 February 2007 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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Preface	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
The biographies	p. 7
The evolution of Milarepa's biography	p. 57
Rechungpa's childhood and meeting Milarepa	p. 85
Rechungpa's strange illness and cure	p. 103
Sorcery, logic and angry monks	p. 137
The teachings of a bodiless dakini	p. 154
The yak horn and the burning texts	p. 183
Marriage, pupils and the end of life	p. 210
Notes	p. 236
Bibliography	p. 266
Index	p. 275
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The Evolution of a Tibetan Hagiography

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