Dhammapada, The Buddha's Path of Wisdom

Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhassa

• Text translated in English:
  • Dhammapada -- PâLI TEXT AND TRANSLATION WITH STORIES IN BRIEF AND NOTES BY Ven Nārada Thera
  • The Buddha's Path of Wisdom, translated from the Pali by Ven. Acharya Buddharakkhita : Preface with an introduction by Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi ; Dhp I. Yamakavagga: The Pairs (vv. 1-20), Dhp II. Appamadavagga: Heedfulness (vv. 21-32 ), Dhp III. Cittavagga: The Mind (Dhp 33-43), ..., ..., ..., XXVI. Brahmanavagga: The Holy Man (Dhp 383-423) ( Access to Insight: Readings in Theravada Buddhism → Tipitaka → Dhp (Dhammapada: The Path of Dhamma)]
  • The Dhammapada, A Translation translated from the Pali by Ven. Thanissaro Bhikkhu : Preface ; introduction ; Dhp I. Yamakavagga: The Pairs (vv. 1-20), Dhp II. Appamadavagga: Heedfulness (vv. 21-32 ), Dhp III. Cittavagga: The Mind (Dhp 33-43), ..., XXVI. Brahmanavagga: Brahmans (Dhp 383-423) ( Access to Insight: Readings in Theravada Buddhism → Tipitaka → Dhp (Dhammapada: The Path of Dhamma)]
  • Dhammapada in Verse -- Inward Path, Translated by Bhante Varado and Samanera Bodhesako, Malaysia, 2007
  • The Dhammapada: A Collection of Verses: Being One of the Canonical Books of the Buddhists , translated by Friedrich Max Müller (revised Jack Maguire, SkyLight Pubns, Woodstock, Vermont, 2002), Wikisource ;
    • 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)
  • The Word of the Doctrine (Dhammapada), tr K. R. Norman, 1997, Pali Text Society, Bristol, London, UK.; the PTS's preferred translation
  • The Dhammapada: A New Translation of the Buddhist Classic with Annotations, Fronsdal, Gil, and Jack Kornfield (foreword) (2005), Boston: Shambhala. ISBN 1-59030-211-7.; Gil Fronsdal, Shambhala, Boston, Massachusetts, 2005 (ISBN 1-59030-380-6)
• Pāḷi : Dhammapadapāḷi
  • PTS: Dhammapadapāḷi（original: Access to Insight → Tipitaka : → Dhp → { Dhp 1-20 } ( Dhp ; Dhp 21-32 ; Dhp 33-43 , etc..）
  • Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana : Dhammapadapāḷi [original: The Pāḷi Tipitaka (http://www.tipitaka.org/ ) (left option: “Tipiṭaka Scripts”, select: Roman→Web → Tipiṭaka (Mūla) → Suttapiṭaka → Khuddakanikāya → Dhammapadapāḷi → 1. Yamakavaggo (2. Appamādavaggo , 3. Cittavaggo , etc..). or refer to: CSCD ( Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana CD ) published by Vipassana Meditation (As Taught By S.N. Goenka in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin).]
• Contrast Reading:
  • Online Pāḷi Tipiṭaka : Tipiṭaka (Mūla) Pāḷi Canon → Suttapiṭaka (The Basket of Discourses) → Khuddakanikāya (Collection of Short) → Dhammapadapāḷi (The Path of Dhamma) → 1. Yamakavaggo (1. Pairs) → Translation of This Pāḷi Text → English: Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu Translation ( Contrast Reading )
  • Multilingual edition of Dhammapada in the Bibliotheca Polyglotta (Gāndhārī, Pāḷi, English, The Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, Chinese)
  • Ven. Acharya Buddharakkhita, Ven. Thanissaro Bhikkhu etc. ( this site )

• Buddhist Legends-- DHAMMAPADA COMMENTARY, by Buddhaghosa. supposed author; Burlingame, Eugene Watson, tr; [1]

  • Volume v.1: PDF ( What the Buddha said ); PDF ( Columbia University , in the City of New York); Flip online ; PDF ; FULL TEXT ; EPUB ; KINDLE ( Internet Archive -- archive.org )
  • Volume v.2: PDF ( What the Buddha said ); PDF ( Columbia University , in the City of New York); Flip online ; PDF ; FULL TEXT ; EPUB ; KINDLE ( Internet Archive )
  • Volume v.3: PDF ( What the Buddha said ); PDF ( Columbia University , in the City of New York); Flip online : PDF ; FULL TEXT ; EPUB ; KINDLE ( Internet Archive )

• Treasury of Truth-- the Illustrated Dhammapada (with commentary), by Ven. Weragoda Sārada Mahā Thero. 1993, [2]

  • PDF: PDF ( buddhanet ) ; PDF ( DLMBS , Digital Library & Museum of Buddhist Studies, Taiwan);

    single PDF file , Flip online ( Internet Archive -- archive.org )

  • TXT ; EPUB ; KINDLE ( Internet Archive )

• A Comparative Edition of the Dhammapada (academia.edu ), with parallels from Sanskritised Prakrit (Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy, Sri Lanka.) edited together with A Study of the Dhammapada Collection, by Ven. Ānandajoti Bhikkhu (2nd revised edition July, 2007 - 2551)

• Patna Dharmapada

• Udānavarga (from Original Texts and Studies-- Canonical Works )

• The Dhammapada -- A New Edition (Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy, Sri Lanka.) edited by Ven. Ānandajoti Bhikkhu (version 2.2, September 2007)

• Parallels to the Dhammapada Verses , collated and studied by Ven. Ānandajoti Bhikkhu (1.2 February 2016)

• The Dhammapada KN 2, A New Edition, academia.edu

• Detailed word-by-word translation of the Dhammapada , → Dhammapada 1 ; Dhammapada 2 ; Dhammapada 3 ; ..., ..., ... ; Dhammapada 421 ; Dhammapada 422 ; Dhammapada 423;

  Including explanation of grammar ( Digital Library & Museum of Buddhist Studies )

• Andersen, Dines, A Pāli Glossary Vol. 2, ( A Pāli Glossary --- Pāli reader and of the Dharmapada , vol. II, PDF), (Delhi 1979, first published 1901), Award publishing House, New Delhi, India.
• Agostini, Giulio, (2010), ‘“ Preceded by thought are the Dhammas ”—The Ancient Exegesis on Dhammapada 1-2’, Buddhist Asia 2(Papers from the second conference of Buddhist Studies held in Naples Jun 2004), pp. 1-34, Ed. Giacomella Orofino and Silvio Vita, Italian School of East Asia Studies, Kyoto, Japan.
• Bernhard, F., Udānavarga, (1965), (Sanskrit texte aus den Turfanfunden X, Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, Philologisch-historische Klasse, Dritte Folge, Nr. 54), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, vol. 1, Göttingen, Germany. Link A ; Link B-- academia.edu
• Brough, John, (1962, 2001), The Gāndhārī Dharmapada, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited, Delhi, India.
• Cone, M. (1989), “Patna Dharmapada” , Journal of the Pali Text Society, vol. 13, pp. 101-217.
• Ven. Dhammajoti, K. L., Bhikkhu, (1995), The Chinese Version of Dharmapada, Translated with Introduction and Annotation, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.
• Falk, Harry, (2011), The ‘Split’ Collection of Kharoṣṭhī Texts , Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University for the Academic Year 2011, pp. 13-23. The International Research Institute of Advanced Buddhology at Soka University, Tokyo, Japan.
• Falk, Harry & Ingo Strauch, (2014), “The Bajaur and Split Collections of Kharoṣṭhī Manuscripts within the context of Buddhist Gāndhārī Literature”, Paul Harrison & Jens-Uwe Hartmann (eds.), From Birch Bark to DigitalData: Recent Advances in Buddhist Manuscript Research (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phil.-Hist. Klasse, Denkschriften, 460 = Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens, 80). Wien (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften): 51-78.
• Falk, Harry, (2015), A New Gāndhārī Dharmapada (Texts from the Split Collection 3), Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University for the Academic Year 2015, pp. 23-62. The International Research Institute of Advanced Buddhology at Soka University, Tokyo, Japan.
• Lenz, Timothy, Glass, Andrew, Bhikshu Dharmamitra, (2003), A New Version of the Gāndhārī Dharmapada and a Collection of Previous-Birth Stories, British Library Kharoṣṭhī Fragments, University of Washington Press, Seattle, USA and London, UK.
• Norman, K. R., (1995), The Group Discourses II, PTS, Oxford, UK.
• Norman, K. R., (1997), ‘Does Māra Have Flower-tipped Arrows?’, in Paul Harrison and Gregory Scopen, eds., Sūryacandrā: Essays in Honour of Akira Yuyama On the Occasion of His 65th Birthday ( Indica et Tibetica 35), Swisttal-Odendorf: Indica et Tibetica Verlag, pp. 135-142.
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• A Dictionary of Gāndhārī Baums, Stefan, and Glass, Andrew, (2014)

• Listening Dhammapada:
  • Dhammapada Chanted in Pali by Ven. Anandajoti Bhikkhu
  • Readings (mp3) from the Dhammapada , translated and read by Gil Fronsdal
  • The Dhammapada , public domain audiobook at LibriVox

refer to Chinese reference

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. (cited from: Part 2, CHAPTER XIII, THE CANON , "HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM-- AN HISTORICAL SKETCH", "VOLUME I , BOOK III-- PALI BUDDHISM" BY SIR CHARLES ELIOT; Read this book online: HTML ; EPUB (with images) ; EPUB (no images) ; Kindle (with images) ; Kindle (no images) ; Plain Text UTF-8 ; More Files… )

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