Prahlad Singh Tipanya & Group
US Tour – March to May 2024
Experience the joyful folk songs of Kabir, the great iconoclastic mystic of 15th-century North India.
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Linda Hess
Linda is a writer, scholar, Stanford Emerita faculty, and acclaimed translator of the great Indian poet Kabir. Her forthcoming book is a memoir-in-essays —When the Buddha Was Born as a Murderer, and other tales of violence and love. It weaves stories of addiction, trauma, healing, and Buddhist practice into a larger frame of violence and nonviolence in self and society.
More books from Linda Hess
The Bijak of Kabir, with Shukdev Singh (North Point/Oxford University Press)
A Touch of Grace: Songs of Kabir (Shambhala Centaur Editions)
Bodies of Song: Kabir Oral Traditions and Performative Worlds in North India (Oxford University Press)
Singing Emptiness: Kumar Gandharva Performs the Poetry of Kabir (Seagull Books)
”“Hess is rightly regarded as by far the best translator of Kabir into English. Her translations display so singular a voice that sometimes it is hard to decide if Hess is channeling Kabir or Kabir is channeling Hess.”
Linda Hess is currently translating a large collection of Kabir poems from a 400-year-old manuscript, to be published by Harvard University Press. Since she believes it’s good for scholars to sing, she can often be found singing the songs of Kabir.
