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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.

Biography as a literary form. --- Lamas --- Buddhist priests --- Biography --- Authorship --- Prose literature --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Mi-la-ras-pa, --- Bźad-paʼi-rdo-rje, --- Jetsün Milarepa, --- Mi-la Bźad-paʼi-rdo-rje, --- Mi-la Rdo-rje-rgyal-mtshan, --- Mi-lê-jih-pa, --- Mila Grubum, --- Mila-gshad pa rdoje, --- Mila-rä-pa, --- Mila-Zhadpa-Dorge, --- Milaraspa, --- Milareba, --- Milarepa, --- Milariba, --- Milareypa, --- Pal-Zhadpa-Dorje, --- Mi︠a︡laraĭva, --- Мяларайва, --- Gėtėlgėgch Mi︠a︡laraĭva, --- Гэтэлгэгч Мяларайва, --- Lamas - Tibet Region - Biography - History and criticism. --- Mi-la-ras-pa, - 1040-1123