Juan Mascaro

Juan Mascaró was born in Majorca in 1897 and studied oriental languages, Sanskrit and Pali at Cambridge, later teaching at Oxford, in Ceylon, in Barcelona and at Cambridge. His English translations of the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads and the Dhammapada for Penguin Classics became among the most widely read, and his anthology Lamps of Fire inspired the Beatles' song "The Inner Light". He died in 1987. Bayeux Arts published The Creation of Faith.