About the Book : Poems from the Sikh Sacred Tradition
Guru Nanak (14691539), a native of Panjab, founded the Sikh religion. His vast
corpus of nearly a thousand hymns forms the core of the Guru Granth Sahib, the
Sikhs sacred book of ethics, philosophy, and theology. The scripture was
expanded and enriched by his nine successors, and Sikhs continue to revere it
today as the embodiment of their tradition. This beautiful new translation by
Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh, a foremost authority on Sikhism, offers a selection
of spiritual lyrics composed by Guru Nanak. Here the reader will find the range
and depth of his pluralistic vision of