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Dhammapada verses [ edit ] Khanti is the first word of the ovāda-pāṭimokkha gātha (Pāli for " pāṭimokkha Exhortation Verse"), found in the Dhammapada , verse 184:
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: 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.
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.
Regarding the popularity of the Dhammapada- I seem to recall reading at some point discussion of the idea that the popularity of the Dhammapada is a semi-recent phenomenon, a product of conscious attempts at putting it forth in Sri Lanka as a concise Buddhist text suitable for the laity- essentially an attempt at providing a counter-weight 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 stream entrant is said to be free from possible rebirth in one of the three lower realms. Attainment ... From Dhammapada verse 178: [further explanation needed]
His Latin translation of the Dhammapada was published in 1855 with a new edition in 1900. It formed the basis for the first complete translation of this text into English, by philologist Max Müller in the Sacred Books of the East , a 50-volume set published by Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910.