namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhassa

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Parallel Reading (paragraph granularity) of The Buddha's Path of Wisdom-- Dhammapada (Dhp.)



  • This parallel Reading (paragraph granularity) including following version:
    • Pāḷi Tipiṭaka (PTS) [1]
    • Pāḷi Tipiṭaka (CSCD) [2]
    • Translated from the Pali by Ven Nārada Thera ) [3]
    • Translated from the Pali by Ven. Ācharya Buddharakkhita ) [4]
    • Translated from the Pali by Ven. Thanissaro Bhikkhu ) [5]
    • Translated from the Pali by Ven. Varado Bhikkhu ) [6]
    • Translated from the Pali by Friedrich Max Müller) [7]
    • Cited from DLMBS [8]

Content of Dhammapada
1. Yamakavaggo (Dhp.1-20) 2. Appamādavaggo (Dhp.21-32) 3. Cittavaggo (Dhp.33-43) 4. Pupphavaggo (Dhp.44-59) 5. Bālavaggo (Dhp.60-75) 6. Paṇḍitavaggo (Dhp.76-89)
  1. The Pairs
  1. Heedfulness
  1. The Mind
  1. Flower
  1. The Fool
  1. The Wise Man
Content of Dhammapada
7. Arahantavaggo (Dhp.90-99) 8. Sahassavaggo (Dhp.100-115) 9. Pāpavaggo (Dhp.116-128) 10. Daṇḍavaggo (Dhp.129-145) 11. Jarāvaggo (Dhp.146-156) 12. Attavaggo (Dhp.157-166)
  1. The Arahat
  1. The Thousands
  1. Evil
  1. Violence
  1. Old Age
  1. The Self
Content of Dhammapada
13. Lokavaggo (Dhp.167-178) 14. Buddhavaggo (Dhp.179-196) 15. Sukhavaggo (Dhp.197-208) 16. Piyavaggo (Dhp.209~220) 17. Kodhavaggo (Dhp.221-234) 18. Malavaggo (Dhp.235-255)
  1. The World
  1. The Buddha
  1. Happiness
  1. Affection
  1. Anger
  1. Impurity
Content of Dhammapada
19. Dhammaṭṭhavaggo (Dhp.256-272) 20 Maggavaggo (Dhp.273-289) 21. Pakiṇṇakavaggo (Dhp.290-305) 22. Nirayavaggo (Dhp.306-319) 23. Nāgavaggo (Dhp.320-333) 24. Taṇhāvaggo (Dhp.334-359)
  1. The Just
  1. The Path
  1. Miscellaneous
  1. The State of Woe
  1. The Elephant
  1. Craving
Content of Dhammapada
25. Bhikkhuvaggo (Dhp.360-382) 26. Brāhmaṇavaggo (Dhp.383-423) Dhammapada-- Fulltext (Dhp.001-423)
  1. The Monk
  1. The Holy Man
The Full Text

the feature in the Pali scriptures which is most prominent and most tiresome to the unsympathetic reader is the repetition of words, sentences and whole paragraphs. This is partly the result of grammar or at least of style. …,…,…,

…,…,…, there is another cause for this tedious peculiarity, namely that for a long period the Pitakas were handed down by oral tradition only. …,…,…,

…,…,…, It may be too that the wearisome and mechanical iteration of the Pali Canon is partly due to the desire of the Sinhalese to lose nothing of the sacred word imparted to them by missionaries from a foreign country, …,…,…,

…,…,…, repetition characterized not only the reports of the discourses but the discourses themselves. No doubt the versions which we have are the result of compressing a free discourse into numbered paragraphs and repetitions: the living word of the Buddha was surely more vivacious and plastic than these stiff tabulations.

(excerpt from: HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM-- AN HISTORICAL SKETCH, BY SIR CHARLES ELIOT; BOOK III-- PALI BUDDHISM, CHAPTER XIII, THE CANON , 2)


NOTE:

[1](note 001) Pāḷi Tipiṭaka (PTS) Dhammapadapāḷi: Access to InsightTipitaka : → Dhp{Dhp 1-20} ( Dhp ; Dhp 21-32 ; Dhp 33-43 , etc..)
[2](note 002) Pāḷi Tipiṭaka (CSCD) Dhammapadapāḷi: Vipassana Meditation (As Taught By S.N. Goenka in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin) CSCD ( Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana CD)。 original: The Pāḷi Tipitaka (http://www.tipitaka.org/) (please choose at left frame “Tipiṭaka Scripts” on Roman → Web → Tipiṭaka (Mūla) → Suttapiṭaka → Khuddakanikāya → Dhammapadapāḷi → 1. Yamakavaggo (2. Appamādavaggo , 3. Cittavaggo , etc..)]
[3](note 003) original: Dhammapada -- PâLI TEXT AND TRANSLATION WITH STORIES IN BRIEF AND NOTES BY Ven Nārada Thera
[4](note 004) original: The Buddha's Path of Wisdom, translated from the Pali by Ven. Ācharya Buddharakkhita : Preface with an introduction by Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi ; I. Yamakavagga: The Pairs (vv. 1-20) , Dhp II Appamadavagga: Heedfulness (vv. 21-32 ) , Dhp III Cittavagga: The Mind (Dhp 33-43) , ..., XXVI. The Holy Man (Dhp 383-423)
[5](note 005) original: The Dhammapada, A Translation translated from the Pali by Ven. Thanissaro Bhikkhu : Preface ; introduction ; I. Yamakavagga: The Pairs (vv. 1-20) , Dhp II Appamadavagga: Heedfulness (vv. 21-32) , Dhp III Cittavagga: The Mind (Dhp 33-43) , ..., XXVI. The Holy Man (Dhp 383-423) ( Access to Insight:Readings in Theravada BuddhismTipitakaDhp (Dhammapada The Path of Dhamma)
[6](note 006) original: Dhammapada in Verse -- Inward Path, Translated by Bhante Varado and Samanera Bodhesako, Malaysia, 2007
[7]

(note 007) original: The Dhammapada : A Collection of Verses: Being One of the Canonical Books of the Buddhists, translated by Friedrich Max Müller (en.wikisource.org) (revised Jack Maguire, SkyLight Pubns, Woodstock, Vermont, 2002)

THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST, VOLUME X PART I. THE DHAMMAPADA; TRANSLATED BY VARIOUS ORIENTAL SCHOLARS AND EDITED BY F. MAX MüLLER, OXFOKD UNIVERSITY FBESS WABEHOUSE, 1881; PDF ( from: http://sourceoflightmonastery.tripod.com)

[8](note 8) original: Readings in Pali Texts ( Digital Library & Museum of Buddhist Studies (DLMBS) --- Pali Lessons )


巴利文經典最突出的特點,同時也是缺乏同情心的讀者最感厭倦的特點,就是單字、語句和整段文節的重複。這一部分是文法或至少是文體所產生的結果。 …,…,…,

…,…,…, 這種文句冗長的特性,另外還有一個原因,那就是在長時期中三藏經典只以口授相傳。 …,…,…,

…,…,…, 巴利文經典令人生厭的機械性的重覆敘述,也可能一部分是由於僧伽羅人(Sinhalese)不願遺失外國傳教師傳授給他們的聖語 …,…,…,

…,…,…, 重覆敘述不僅是說教記錄的特點,而且也是說教本身的特點。我們持有的版本,無疑地是把一段自由說教壓縮成為編有號碼的段落和重覆敘述的產品。佛陀所說的話一定比這些生硬的表格更為活潑柔軟得多。

(節錄自: 巴利系佛教史綱 第六章 聖典 二 摘錄 )