Author: Pali Text SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Word of the Doctrine (Dhammapada)
Author: Pali Text SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Word of the Doctrine (Dhammapada)
Author: Word of the Doctrine
Author: The Word of the Doctrine (Dhammapada)
Author: Pali Text SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The Dhammapada
Author: Pitaka PitakaThe Dhammapada
Author: Gautama BuddhaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
The Dhammapada is a Buddhist text that is believed to record the actual words of the founder of Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama. Gautama, better known as the Buddha, lived between 563 and 483 bce. His words were passed along orally until they were written down in about the first century bce. The word dhamma means "the teachings of Buddhism." The title of the Dhammapada is often translated as "Words of the Doctrine." It consists of 423 aphorisms. These are short statements that contain a truth, principle, or sentiment, usually in memorable language. The verses are numbered sequentially and are divided into twenty-six vaggas, or sections, with such titles as "On Vigilance," "The Mind," "The Fool," and "The Wise." For more than two thousand years, Buddhists have used the Dhammapada and other sacred Buddhist texts as a reference to provide guidance in their lives.
Commentaries on the Dhammapada
Author: MotherPublisher: Lotus Press
ISBN: 094098525X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
One of the ancient texts of the Pali Canon of Buddhism, the Dhammapada has a revered place among the scriptures. With commentaries of The Mother after each chapter.
The Dhammapada
Author: BuddhaPublisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0812977270
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Trembling and quivering is the mind, Difficult to guard and hard to restrain. The person of wisdom sets it straight, As a fletcher does an arrow. The Dhammapada introduced the actual utterances of the Buddha nearly twenty-five hundred years ago, when the master teacher emerged from his long silence to illuminate for his followers the substance of humankind’s deepest and most abiding concerns. The nature of the self, the value of relationships, the importance of moment-to-moment awareness, the destructiveness of anger, the suffering that attends attachment, the ambiguity of the earth’s beauty, the inevitability of aging, the certainty of death–these dilemmas preoccupy us today as they did centuries ago. No other spiritual texts speak about them more clearly and profoundly than does the Dhammapada. In this elegant new translation, Sanskrit scholar Glenn Wallis has exclusively referred to and quoted from the canonical suttas–the presumed earliest discourses of the Buddha–to bring us the heartwood of Buddhism, words as compelling today as when the Buddha first spoke them. On violence: All tremble before violence./ All fear death./ Having done the same yourself,/ you should neither harm nor kill. On ignorance: An uninstructed person/ ages like an ox,/ his bulk increases,/ his insight does not. On skillfulness: A person is not skilled/ just because he talks a lot./ Peaceful, friendly, secure–/ that one is called “skilled.” In 423 verses gathered by subject into chapters, the editor offers us a distillation of core Buddhist teachings that constitutes a prescription for enlightened living, even in the twenty-first century. He also includes a brilliantly informative guide to the verses–a chapter-by-chapter explication that greatly enhances our understanding of them. The text, at every turn, points to practical applications that lead to freedom from fear and suffering, toward the human state of spiritual virtuosity known as awakening. Glenn Wallis’s translation is an inspired successor to earlier versions of the suttas. Even those readers who are well acquainted with the Dhammapada will be enriched by this fresh encounter with a classic text.
The Dhammapada
Author: Friedrich Max MüllerPublisher: Binker North
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Dhammapada-a Collection of Verses; Being One of the Canonical Books of the Buddhists is a Buddhist scripture and a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka Nikaya, a division of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism. The title, "Dhammapada," is a compound term composed of dhamma and pada, each word having a number of denotations and connotations. Generally, dhamma can refer to the Buddha's "doctrine" or an "eternal truth" or "righteousness" or all "phenomena"; and, at its root, pada means "foot" and thus by extension, especially in this context, means either "path" or "verse" or both. In Tamil language 'Padam' means subject, English translations of this text's title have used various combinations of these and related words. According to tradition, the Dhammapada's verses were spoken by the Buddha on various occasions." By distilling the complex models, theories, rhetorical style and sheer volume of the Buddha's teachings into concise, crystalline verses, the Dhammapada makes the Buddhist way of life available to anyone.
Dhammapada
Author: John Ross CarterPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199555133
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
A translation of the ancient Buddhist scripture, traditionally ascribed to the Buddha himself, outlining the way to enlightenment and freedom from suffering.