Personal odyssey draws translator to ancient works
Chinese translation | General translation | Sacred translation
'Nothing is sacred': Stephen Mitchell's love of Taoist masters brings ideas of two Chinese scholars to light
"If I'm a scholar, I'm an amateur," says Stephen Mitchell, the soft-spoken translator of Rainer Maria Rilke and the book of Job as well as Gilgamesh , the Bhagavad Gita and his all-time favorite, the Tao Te Ching --- as he says, "that marvel of lucidity and grace, the classic manual on the art of living."