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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.
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 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.
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. [2]
The first moment of the attainment [clarification needed] is termed the path of stream-entry (sotāpatti-magga), which cuts through the first three fetters.The person who experiences it is called a stream-winner (sotāpanna).
Dhammapada commentary, translated in two parts Stories giving background to verses, tr E. W. Burlingame as Buddhist Legends , 1921, 3 volumes, Harvard Oriental Series ; reprinted PTS, Oxford Explanations of verses, translated in the Dhammapada translation by John Ross Carter & Mahinda Palihawadana, Oxford University Press, 1987; included only ...