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    The Buddha's Path of Virtue: A Translation of the Dhammapada
    The Buddha's Path of Virtue: A Translation of the Dhammapada
    The Buddha's Path of Virtue: A Translation of the Dhammapada
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    'The Dhammapada' is 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. According to tradition, the Dhammapada's verses were spoken by the Buddha on various occasions.
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    Release dateNov 22, 2019
    ISBN4057664637512
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      The Buddha's Path of Virtue - Good Press

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      The Buddha's Path of Virtue: A Translation of the Dhammapada

      Published by Good Press, 2019

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4057664637512

      Table of Contents

      FOREWORD

      TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE

      Glory to Him, the Blessed Saint, the All-Enlightened one.

      The Buddha's Path of Virtue.

      CHAPTER ONE.

      THE PAIRS.

      CHAPTER TWO.

      HEEDFULNESS.

      CHAPTER THREE.

      THE MIND.

      CHAPTER FOUR.

      FLOWERS.

      CHAPTER FIVE.

      FOOLS.

      CHAPTER SIX.

      THE WISE.

      CHAPTER SEVEN.

      THE ARAHAT—THE WORTHY.

      CHAPTER EIGHT.

      THE THOUSANDS.

      CHAPTER NINE.

      EVIL.

      CHAPTER TEN.

      PUNISHMENT.

      CHAPTER ELEVEN.

      OLD AGE.

      CHAPTER TWELVE.

      The Self.

      CHAPTER THIRTEEN.

      THE WORLD.

      CHAPTER FOURTEEN.

      THE AWAKENED ONE.

      CHAPTER FIFTEEN.

      Happiness.

      CHAPTER SIXTEEN.

      AFFECTIONS.

      CHAPTER SEVENTEEN.

      ANGER.

      CHAPTER EIGHTEEN.

      IMPURITY.

      CHAPTER NINETEEN.

      THE JUST.

      CHAPTER TWENTY.

      THE PATH.

      CHAPTER TWENTY ONE.

      DIVERS VERSES.

      CHAPTER TWENTY TWO.

      THE EVIL WAY.

      CHAPTER TWENTY THREE.

      THE ELEPHANT.

      CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR.

      CRAVING.

      CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE.

      THE MENDICANT.

      CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX.

      THE BRAHMANA.

      FOREWORD

      Table of Contents

      The Dhammapada, of which a metrical translation by Mr. Woodward is here presented, is a precious Buddhist Scripture which deserves to be widely known. The Theosophical Society is to be congratulated on securing so competent and sympathetic a translator and on publishing it in a popular form.

      The Dhammapada is a part of the Khuddaka Nikāya of the Buddhistic Canon and consists of about 420 stanzas in the sloka metre. Every fully ordained bhikkhu[1] is expected to know the book by heart, and its verses are often on the lips of pious laymen. The beginner of Buddhist studies can have no better introduction to Buddhism and must go back to it again and again to enter into the spirit of Buddha and his apostles.

      The Scriptures of the Buddhist Canon are known collectively as the Ti-piṭaka (Sansk. Tri-piṭaka), the Three Baskets or Treasuries. These divisions correspond to the two Testaments of the Christian Bible and contain (excluding repetitions) more than twice as much matter. They are known separately as the Vinaya piṭaka, Sutta piṭaka and Abhidhamma piṭaka, the Basket of Discipline, the Basket of Discourses and the Basket of Metaphysics. These scriptures are regarded with the utmost veneration by Buddhists as containing the word of Buddha (Buddha-vacanam), and are reputed to have been recited at the first Council held, according to tradition, at Rājagaha immediately after Buddha's death circa 540 B.C.

      It seems more probable that they grew up gradually and did not receive their final shape till about three centuries later, at the Council held under the auspices of the Emperor Asoka at Pāṭaliputra circa 247 B.C. The account given of the First Council in the closing chapter of the Culla vagga seems to indicate that the Basket of Metaphysics was then unknown or unrecognised, and that the scriptures were then a Dvi-piṭaka (Two Baskets) rather than a Ti-piṭaka (Three Baskets).

      If the Culla vagga account is accepted, it would appear that at this Council, expressly held by the Emperor for the consecrative settlement of the holy texts, the five Nikāyas or divisions which constitute the second Basket formed the subject of discussion between the President Kassappa and Buddha's favourite pupil Ānanda. The Dhammapada is a book of the fifth Nikāya. The Mahāvansa (Ch. v, 68) carries it back a few years earlier than the Council, to the time of the Emperor's conversion to the Buddhist faith, for on that occasion his teacher, Nigrodha, is said to have explained to him the Appamāda-vagga, which is the second chapter of the work. It was therefore known in the middle or early part of the third century B.C.

      It seems to be an Anthology, prepared for the use of the faithful, of verses believed to be the real words of Buddha, short improvisations in which he expressed striking thoughts and embellished his preaching. They were current among the early Buddhists, and have been culled from the other scriptures as of high ethical and spiritual value. The importance of the Dhammapada for a critical study of Buddhism is thus considerable.

      For a thorough understanding of the work and of the orthodox Buddhist view of it, it should be studied with the valuable commentary of Buddhaghosa. Buddhism owes a profound debt to this great man, and has recognised it in the name by which he is known in the Buddhist world. Says the Mahāvansa (Ch. xxxvii, 174): "Because he was as profound in his eloquence (ghosa) as Buddha himself, they conferred on him the appellation of Buddha-ghosa (the Voice of Buddha), and throughout the world he became as renowned as Buddha. He was an Indian Brahmana and a great Vedic scholar and apostle. On his conversion to Buddhism he became a not less ardent champion of the new Faith. He came to Ceylon from the cradle of Buddhism, the terrace of the

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