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The Dhammapada (Pali: धम्मपद; Sanskrit: धर्मपद, romanized: Dharmapada) is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. [1] The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka Nikaya, a division of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism.
Dhammapada verses [ edit ] Khanti is the first word of the ovāda-pāṭimokkha gātha (Pāli for " pāṭimokkha Exhortation Verse"), found in the Dhammapada , verse 184:
Next is a 57-page introduction that is divided into two main sections. The first introductory section, less than 3 pages in length, is entitled simply "The Dhammapada," and briefly summarizes the Dhammapada's historical context, noting that its verses connect with incidents in the Buddha's life "and illustrate the method of teaching adopted by ...
The 2007 edition contains a foreword [8] in which Easwaran states that he translated the Dhammapada for "kindred spirits:" [9]: 10 "men and women in every age and culture" [9]: 10 who "thrill" to the Dhammapada 's message that "the wider field of consciousness is our native land.... The world of the senses is just a base camp: we are meant to ...
Comparatively, the most common version of the Dhammapada, in Pali, has 423 verses in 26 chapters. [3] Comparing the Udānavarga , Pali Dhammapada and the Gandhari Dharmapada, Brough (2001) identifies that the texts have in common 330 to 340 verses, 16 chapter headings and an underlying structure.
A Gandhari Version of the Rhinoceros Sutra (2000) by Richard Salomon and Andrew Glass; Three Gandhari Ekottarikagama-Type Sutras (2001) by Mark Allon and Andrew Glass; A New Version of the Gandhari Dharmapada and a Collection of Previous-Birth Stories (2003) by Timothy Lenz, Andrew Glass, and Bhikshu Dharmamitra
The Khuddaka Nikāya (lit. ' Minor Collection ') is the last of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipitaka, the sacred scriptures of Theravada Buddhism.
[182] [183] According to the Ariyapariyesanā-sutta (MN 26) and its Chinese parallel at MĀ 204, after having mastered the teaching of Ārāḍa Kālāma (Pali: Alara Kalama), who taught a meditation attainment called "the sphere of nothingness", he was asked by Ārāḍa to become an equal leader of their spiritual community. [184] [185]