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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.
Gil Fronsdal (born 1954) is a Norwegian-born, American Buddhist teacher, writer and scholar based in Redwood City, California. He has been practicing Buddhism of the Sōtō Zen and Vipassanā sects since 1975, and is currently teaching the practice of Buddhism in the San Francisco Bay Area . [ 1 ]
According to Gil Fronsdal: An important feature of the “Mahasi approach” is its dispensing with the traditional preliminary practice of fixed concentration or tranquilization (appana samadhi, samatha). Instead, the meditator practices Vipassana exclusively during intensive periods of silent retreat that can last several months with a daily ...
Fronsdal states that these hindrances cover over: the clarity of our mind, and our ability to be mindful, wise, concentrated, and stay on purpose. [ 1 ] According to Rhys Davids, the Pali term nīvaraṇa (Sanskrit: nivāraṇa ) refers to an obstacle or hindrance only in the ethical sense, and is usually enumerated in a set of five.
Also included are the Dhammapada, the Udāna, the Itivuttaka, and Milindapanha. There are also additional texts, including early histories, that are preserved from the early Buddhist schools but not found in Pali. The canon contains voluminous works of Abhidharma, especially from the Sarvāstivāda school.
Buddha's statue near Belum Caves Andhra Pradesh India. This is a list of writers on Buddhism.The list is intended to include only those writers who have written books about Buddhism, and about whom there is already a Wikipedia article.
In 1892 a copy of the Dhammapada written in the Gandhārī Prakrit was discovered near Khotan in Xinjiang, western China. It was broken up and came to Europe in parts, some going to Russia and some to France , but unfortunately a portion of the manuscript never appeared on the market and seems to have been lost.
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.