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Andrew Quintman is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Yale �Թ���, where he specializes in the Buddhist traditions of Tibet and the Himalaya. His book��The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet’s Great Saint Milarepa��(Columbia �Թ��� Press 2014)��won the American Academy of Religion’s 2014 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, the 2015 Heyman Prize for outstanding scholarship from Yale �Թ���, and received honorable mention for the 2016 Association of Asian Studies’ E. Gene Smith Book Prize. His English translation of��The Life of Milarepa��was published by Penguin Classics in 2010. He is currently writing a history of Drakar Taso Monastery in Tibet’s southern frontier and a study of the Buddha’s life story through Tāranātha's visual and literary materials from Puntsokling Monastery in western Tibet.