| Bhagavad Gita Contributor(s): Flood, Gavin (Author), Martin, Charles (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0393345130 ISBN-13: 9780393345131 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Hinduism - Sacred Writings |
| Dewey: 294.592 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.40 lbs) 202 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Hindu - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This new verse translation of the classic Sanskrit text combines the skills of leading Hinduist Gavin Flood with the stylistic verve of award-winning poet and translator Charles Martin. The result is a living, vivid work that avoids dull pedantry and remains true to the extraordinarily influential original. A devotional, literary, and philosophical masterpiece of unsurpassed beauty and imaginative relevance, The Bhagavad Gita has inspired, among others, Mahatma Gandhi, J. Robert Oppenheimer, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, and Aldous Huxley. Its universal themes--life and death, war and peace, sacrifice--resonate in a West increasingly interested in Eastern religious experiences and the Hindu diaspora. |
Contributor Bio(s): Flood, Gavin: - Gavin Flood is Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion and Academic Director of the Centre for Hindu Studies at Oxford University. He is the author of An Introduction to Hinduism; The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory, and Tradition; and The Tantric Body: The Secret Tradition of Hindu Religion.Martin, Charles: - Charles Martin is a poet, critic, and translator. His translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses received the Harold Morton Landon Award from the Academy of American Poets in 2004. In 2005, he received an Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the author of Signs & Wonders and Starting from Sleep: New and Selected Poems. |