Backmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Earliest Sources: A Biographical Birth 32
6. 2. Proto-Lives Formations of a Skeletal Biography 56
7. 3. Biographical Compendia: Lives Made Flesh 82
8. 4. A New Standard: Tsangnyön Heruka’s Life and Songs of Milarepa 121
9. 5. The Yogin and the Madman: A Life Brought to Life 155
10. 6. Conclusions 175
11. Epilogue: Mila Comes Alive! 184
12. Abbreviations 189
13. Appendix 1: The Life of Jetsün Mila by Gampopa 191
14. Appendix 2: Text Colophons. English Translations and Tibetan Transcriptions 199
15. Appendix 3: Text Outlines and Concordances 207
16. Notes 226
17. Bibliography 277
18. Index 299
19. Backmatter 315