Bhagavad Gita

"Lucid, detailed, and erupting with fearsome visions, the Bhagavad Gita has baffled English-language translators for 250 years. Stanley Lombardo is the first to recognize that at its root the Sanskrit Gita was oral performance. Beyond word and meaning, past nuance or doctrine, Lombardo restores the archaic tradition of voice and conch shell. When you read this edition aloud the hair on your neck will stand up. Add a drum and it’s a performance. A grand old culture comes to life. Both essays by Richard Davis are superb, placing the Gita in historical context, back then, and more recently."
—Andrew Schelling, Naropa University. Author of Love and the Turning Seasons: India’s Poetry of Spiritual & Erotic Longing

"Lombardo's translation of the Bhagavad Gita is smooth, clear, and accurate with a keen poetic sensibility. Davis' Introduction fully places the Gita in its narrative context [and his] Afterword introduces fascinating contemporary applications of the Gita. This is truly a new state-of-the-art Bhagavad Gita version. Lombardo captures the colloquial quality of Barbara Stoler Miller's translation while retaining key Sanskrit words (unlike Miller's version) which are glossed in the glossary. The low price makes this especially attractive as a version to adopt for university courses. [T]his version is a great contribution to the study of the Bhagavad Gita."
—H. Talat Halman, Department of Religion, Central Michigan University