|
Product Description
Stephen Mitchell is widely known for his ability to make ancient masterpieces thrillingly new, to step in where many have tried before and create versions that are definitive for our time. His celebrated version of the Tao Te Ching is the most popular edition in print, and his translations of Jesus, Rilke, Genesis, and Job have won the hearts of readers and critics alike. Stephen Mitchell now brings to the Bhagavad Gita his gift for breathing new life into sacred texts.The Bhagavad Gita is universally acknowledged as one of the world's literary and spiritual masterpieces. It is the core text of the Hindu tradition and has been treasured by American writers from Emerson and Thoreau to T. S. Eliot, who called it the greatest philosophical poem after the Divine Comedy. There have been more than two hundred English translations of the Gita, including many competent literal versions, but not one of them is a superlative literary text in its own right.
Now all that has changed. Stephen Mitchell's Bhagavad Gita sings with the clarity, the vigor, and the intensity of the original Sanskrit. It will, as William Arrowsmith said of Mitchell's translation of The Sonnets to Orpheus, "instantly make every other rendering obsolete."
Features
- no markings - brand new
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice
- The Yamas & Niyamas: Exploring Yoga's Ethical Practice
- Yoga Resource Practice Manual
- Yoga Anatomy
- The Key Muscles of Yoga: Scientific Keys, Volume I
- Light on Yoga: The Bible of Modern Yoga
- The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
- Science of Yoga: Understand the Anatomy and Physiology to Perfect Your Practice
- Functional Anatomy of Yoga: A Guide for Practitioners and Teachers
- Teaching Yoga: Exploring the Teacher-Student Relationship
*If this is not the "Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link. Details were last updated on Dec 21, 2024 22:27 +08.