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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 word is a negation of pamāda, which means "negligent" or "lax." [3] Appamāda, therefore, means non-negligence, or non-laxity, non-intoxication, non-deluded correctly translated as "heedfulness", or whichever word fully captures the mood of the term.
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 ...
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.
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.
Kisa Gotami was the wife of a wealthy man of Savatthi.Her story is one of the most famous ones in Buddhism.After losing her only child, Kisa Gotami became desperate and asked if anyone could help her.