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This essay discusses how Chinese and Tibetan biographies are seen as important texts in their respective cultures. It argues that biographies should be taken seriously as literary works, and that the literary turn in historical and religious studies can be applied to this understudied but central corpus of material.
The Chinese and Tibetan traditions value biography as a primary historiographical and literary genre. This volume analyses biographies as texts, taking seriously the literary turn in historical and religious studies and applying some of its insights to an understudied but central corpus of material in Chinese and Tibetan religion.
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