From Library Journal
Mitchell must by now be accounted one of our generation!s heroic translators, having taken on the Book of Job, the Tao te Ching, and Genesis and done so much to popularize Rilke in English. Now he applies his considerable skill and sympathy to one of the most noted sacred texts of Asia, the Bhagavad Gita, and the results are very happy. He works in free-verse quatrains of about three beats per line, and his language flows with great naturalness. Inevitably, this text will remain both ancient and foreign to many modern readers, but Mitchell!s work goes a long way to making these words...[drive] away your ignorance and delusion. Highly recommended.
- away your ignorance and delusion. Highly recommended. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Synopsis
Presents a comparative analysis of female sainthood and describes the lives of figures considered saintly in world religions including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism. Implications of this material for the concept of sainthood and for women saints as a cross-cultural category are examined. Analysis draws on original sou
