In 1995, Steven Pressfield decided to introduce the Bhagavad-Gita to a contemporary audience, so he restructured the Gita in terms of a golf novel, The Legend of Bagger Vance. Now a major motion picture directed by Robert Redford and starring Matt Damon and Will Smith, The Legend of Bagger Vance is loosely based on the ancient Hindu epic, The Bhagavad-gita. Steven Rosen, in Gita on the Green: The Mystical Tradition Behind Bagger Vance, draws the story out further using some thirty years of Gita scholarship and a writing style that is both eloquent and thorough.

Author Biography

Steven J. Rosen is the author of fifteen books on East-Indian philosophy and spirituality. He is the editor of The Journal of Vaishnavi Studies and is currently part of an editorial team working on The Encyclopedia of Hinduism, an 18-volume compendium of Indian thought (forthcoming, 2003, University of South Carolina Press). He lives in Nyack, NY.