Andrew Quintman is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Yale University, where he specializes in the Buddhist traditions of Tibet and the Himalaya. His book听The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet鈥檚 Great Saint Milarepa听(Columbia University Press 2014)听won the American Academy of Religion鈥檚 2014 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, the 2015 Heyman Prize for outstanding scholarship from Yale University, and received honorable mention for the 2016 Association of Asian Studies鈥� E. Gene Smith Book Prize. His English translation of听The Life of Milarepa听was published by Penguin Classics in 2010. He is currently writing a history of Drakar Taso Monastery in Tibet鈥檚 southern frontier and a study of the Buddha鈥檚 life story through T膩ran膩tha's visual and literary materials from Puntsokling Monastery in western Tibet.