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Friedrich Max Müller

The Dhammapada

The Dhammapada is a versified Buddhist scripture traditionally ascribed to the Buddha himself. It is one of the best-known texts from the Theravada canon. 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” (cf. “prosodic foot”) or both. (courtesy of wikipedia.com)
79 printed pages
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Bookwire
Original publication
2012
Publication year
2012
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    If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
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    Good people shine from afar, like the snowy mountains; bad people are not seen, like arrows shot by night.
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    Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.

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