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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.
The Dhammapada / Introduced & Translated by Eknath Easwaran is an English-language book originally published in 1986. It contains Easwaran's translation of the Dhammapada , a Buddhist scripture traditionally ascribed to the Buddha himself.
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.
The Dhammapada: With introductory essays, Pali text, English translation and notes is a 1950 book written by philosopher and (later) President of India, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975), about the Dhammapada, an important Buddhist scripture.
Pali: Dhammapada 103: Yo sahassaṃ sahassena, saṅgāme mānuse jine; Ekañca jeyyamattānaṃ, sa ve saṅgāmajuttamo. Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one — himself. Ardhamagadhi: Saman Suttam 125: Jo sahassam sahassanam, samgame dujjae jine.
Dhammapada: A Translation, a collection of verses by the Buddha; And as co-author, a college-level textbook, Buddhist Religions: A Historical Introduction; Aside from Buddhist Religions, all of the books and articles and talks mentioned above are available for free distribution on Bhikkhu's website dhammatalks.org.
Khanti is the first word of the ovāda-pāṭimokkha gātha (Pāli for "pāṭimokkha Exhortation Verse"), found in the Dhammapada, verse 184: Patient endurance: the foremost austerity.
Dhammapāla was the name of two or more [citation needed] great Theravada Buddhist commentators.. The earlier, born in Kanchipuram, is known to us from both the Gandhavamsa and the writings of Xuanzang [citation needed] to have lived at Badara Tittha Vihara south of modern Chennai, and to have written the commentaries on seven of the shorter canonical books (consisting almost entirely of ...