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The Life of the Buddha Project appeared on the cover of the 2016 Yale ITS Annual Report and was featured prominently in the online version.
“Piecing Together the Life of the Buddha”
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The Yogin and the Madman receives Honorable Mention in the 2016 Association of Asian Studies’ E. Gene Smith Book Prize.
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December 21, 2015 | Audible link |
The Life of Milarepa (Penguin Classics 2010) is available for the first time in audiobook form.
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Andrew Quintman & Kurtis Schaeffer receive a 2-year ACLS-Ho Foundation Collaborative Research Fellowship in Buddhist Studies for “The Life of the Buddha at Jonang Monastery: Art, Literature, and Institution.”
Project website: lifeofthebuddha.org
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The Yogin and the Madman receives Yale University’s 2015 Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for outstanding scholarship.
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The Yogin and the Madman receives the American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion.
Remarks from the awards committee:
“It is eminently readable, engagingly written, while displaying impeccable scholarship. I am by no means familiar with Tibetan biographical literature and know next to nothing about Milarepa. But in this book, Mila does indeed come alive! through the author’s cogent analysis of the multiple readings of his biography in differing historical circumstances and of how these readings shaped and reshaped the Buddhist consciousness. This book can be read with interest by all those similarly interested in the place of biographical literature in other religious traditions (as I am) but also by nonspecialists.
The Yogin and the Madman got me excited to read primary text material about Milarepa, someone I’d never thought about twice previously. I found the author’s argument layered and nuanced in its thought. I thought it was written nicely, with a level of sophistication and maturity not found in a lot of textual studies. The author drew richly from the primary texts, and the primary texts (both in terms of their content, reception, and deployment) are at the heart of his argument. The book also includes original translation work by the author. Finally, it made me appreciate what texts contribute to the study of religion broadly.”
