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Turning Personal: Recent Work on Autobiography in Tibetan Studies - Vision and Violence: Lama Zhang and the Politics of Charisma in Twelfth-Century Tibet. By Carl S. Yamamoto. Leiden: Brill, 2012. xvi, 389 pp. ISBN 9789004230101 (cloth). - The Illuminated Life of the Great Yolmowa. By Benjamin Bogin. Chicago: Serindia, 2013. 269 pp. ISBN 9781932476668 (cloth). - The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa. By Andrew Quintman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. xi, 314 pp. ISBN 9780231164146 (cloth). - Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro. By Sarah H. Jacoby. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xxv, 422 pp. ISBN 9780231147682 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2016

Janet Gyatso
Janet Gyatso*
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Harvard University
*
jgyatso@hds.harvard.edu
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Book Reviews—Inner Asia
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 75 , Issue 1 , February 2016 , pp. 229 - 235
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References

1 Janet Gyatso, Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998), chap. 1, 5, and 6.

2 Tsangnyön Heruka, The Life of Milarepa, trans. Andrew Quintman (New York: Penguin Books, 2010), 49 et seq.

3 The larger question of early modernity in Tibet has preoccupied me: Janet Gyatso, Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015); Janet Gyatso, “Discerning Tibetan Modernities: Moments, Methods, Assumptions,” in Mapping the Modern in Tibet, ed. Gray Tuttle, 1–37 (Leiden: Brill, 2011).

4 Tsangnyön, The Life of Milarepa, op. cit. note 2, 155–61.

5 In Journal of the American Academy of Religion, forthcoming.