Download or read book Religion and Biography in China and Tibet written by Benjamin Penny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.