Book Review: "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
1. 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). 2. The Illuminated Life of the Great Yolmowa. By BenjaminBogin. Chicago: Serindia, 2013. 269 pp. ISBN 9781932476668 (cloth). 3. The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa. By AndrewQuintman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. xi, 314 pp. ISBN 9780231164146 (cloth).4. 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).
