Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan VisionaryApparitions of the Self is a groundbreaking investigation into what is known in Tibet as secret autobiography, an exceptional, rarely studied literary genre that presents a personal exploration of intimate religious experiences. In this volume, Janet Gyatso translates and studies the outstanding pair of secret autobiographies by the famed Tibetan Buddhist visionary, Jigme Lingpa (1730 1798), whose poetic and self conscious writings are as much about