The Dhammapada Verses And Stories

Author : Gotama the Buddha
Publisher : Pariyatti
Page : 546 pages
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Release : 2019-01-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781681721217

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The Dhammapada is a well known book in the Tipitaka. It is a collection of the teachings of the Buddha expressed in clear, pithy verses. These verses were culled from various discourses given by the Buddha in the course of forty-five years of his teaching, as he travelled in the valley of the Ganges (Ganga) and the sub-mountain tract of the Himalayas. They are often terse, witty and convincing. Through them the Buddha exhorts one to achieve that greatest of all conquests, the conquest of self; to escape from the evils of craving, aversion and ignorance; and to strive hard to attain freedom from the round of rebirths. Each verse contains a truth (dhamma), an exhortation, a piece of advice. Summaries of the Dhammapada stories are given in the second part of the book as it is generally believed that the Dhammapada Commentary written by Buddhaghosa (5th century AD) is helpful in understanding the Dhammapada. Three hundred and five stories are included in the Commentary. Most of the incidents mentioned in the stories took place during the life-time of the Buddha. In writing summaries of stories we have not tried to translate the Commentary. We have simply culled the facts of the stories and have rewritten them briefly: A translation of the verses is given at the end of each story.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UCAL:B3668024

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Includes stories from Dhammapadaṭṭhakathā, classical commentary on the Dhammapada.

Author : Daw Mya Tin
Publisher : Pariyatti Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1681723573

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Dhammapada - Verses & Stories by Daw Mya Tin Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9380282508

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The Dhammapada by Anonim Pdf

Author : Weragoda Sārada Mahā Thēro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004*
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : OCLC:59823851

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Treasury of Truth by Weragoda Sārada Mahā Thēro Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : NLI:3189183-10

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The Dhammapada by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781775458067

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The Dhammapada by Anonim Pdf

Whether you're a serious practitioner of Buddhism or someone who is interested in learning more about this ancient spiritual tradition, The Dhammapada offers a fascinating glimpse inside the Buddhist ethos. Comprised of verses attributed to the Buddha as well as commentary and parables, this sacred text is a must-read for those interested in one of the world's oldest religions.

Author : Eknath Easwaran
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458778383

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The Dhammapada (Large Print 16pt) by Eknath Easwaran Pdf

The Dhammapada: one of three new editions of the books in Eknath Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality series ''As irrigators guide water to their fields, as archers aim arrows, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their lives.'' - Dhammapada (145).... Dhammapada means ''the path of dharma,'' the path of truth, harmony, and righteousness. Capturing the living words of the Buddha, this much-loved scripture consists of verses organized by theme: thought, joy, anger, pleasure, and others. The Dhammapada is permeated with the power and practicality of one of the world's most appealing spiritual teachers. Rejecting superstition on the one hand and philosophical speculation on the other, the Buddha taught the path to the end of suffering and showed how we can achieve lasting joy. He spells out our choices with a refreshing realism and frankness. And he insists that we be spiritually self-reliant: ''All the effort must be made by you. Buddhas only point the way.'' Easwaran believed that we need nothing more than the Dhammapada to follow the way of the Buddha. His main qualification for interpreting the Dhammapada, he said, was that he knew from his own experience that these verses can transform our lives.

Author : Buddha
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307950710

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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.

Author : Friedrich Max Müller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : UVA:X030143077

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The Dhammapada by Friedrich Max Müller Pdf

Author : Anonymous,F. Max Muller
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1482054086

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The Dhammapada by Anonymous,F. Max Muller Pdf

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. The 5th century Buddhist scholar and commentator Bhadantacariya Buddhaghosa explains that each saying recorded in the collection was made on a different occasion in response to a unique situation that had arisen in the life of the Buddha and his monastic community. Friedrich Max Müller (December 6, 1823 – October 28, 1900) — known as Max Müller — was a German-born philologist and Orientalist, who lived and studied in Britain for most of his life. He was one of the founders of the western academic field of Indian studies and the discipline of comparative religion.

Author : F. Max Muller
Publisher : Xist Publishing
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781681955803

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The Dhammapada by F. Max Muller Pdf

A Buddhist scripture “All created things perish,' he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain; this is the way to purity.”- F. Max Muller, The Dhammapada The book contains 423 verses in 26 categories, all verses spoken by the Buddha on various occasions. Most of the verses deal with ethics and spiritual thoughts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191605697

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Dhammapada by Anonim Pdf

The Dhammapada, the Pali version of one of the most popular texts of the Buddhist canon, ranks among the classics of the world's great religious literature. Like all religious texts in Pali, the Dhammapada belongs to the Therevâda school of the Buddhist tradition, adherents of which are now found primarily in Kampuchea, Laos, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Dhammapada, or 'sayings of the dhamma', is taken to be a collection of the utterances of the Buddha himself. Taken together, the verses form a key body of teaching within Buddhism, a guiding voice along the struggle-laden path towards true enlightenment, or Nirvana. However, the appeal of these epithets of wisdom extends beyond its religious heritage to a general and universal spirituality. This edition provides an introduction and notes which examine the impact that the text has had within the Buddhist heritage through the centuries. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Friedrich Max Müller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Tipi£̀Ưaka
ISBN : OCLC:1010614659

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The Dhammapada by Friedrich Max Müller Pdf

Author : Bhikkhu Anālayo
Publisher : Pariyatti
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-07
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781681724058

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Deepening Insight by Bhikkhu Anālayo Pdf

Deepening Insight presents a selection of passages from the early Buddhist discourses that provide perspectives on the cultivation of liberating insight into vedanā, “sensation,” “feeling,” or “feeling tone.” For meditators, such passages can be of considerable help as a reference point for deepening insight. A metaphor that can offer considerable help when facing vedanās describes bubbles arising on the surface of a pond during rain...they arise and soon enough burst and disappear. Contemplation of the changing nature of vedanā provides a firm foundation for the growth of insight into not self. Such insight proceeds through successive layers of the mind’s ingrained habit of self-referentiality. Based on relinquishing the explicit view of affirming the existence of a permanent self, increasingly subtler traces of conceit and possessiveness need to be successively overcome until with full awakening all selfing in any form will be removed for good. Deepening Insight is based on textual sources that reflect “early Buddhism,” which stands for the development of thought and practices during roughly the first two centuries in the history of Buddhism, from about the fifth to the third century BCE. These sources are the Pāli discourses and their parallels, mostly extant in Chinese translation, which go back to instructions and teachings given orally by the Buddha and his disciples. In those times in India, writing was not employed for such purposes, and for centuries these teachings were transmitted orally. The final results of such oral transmission are available to us nowadays in the form of written texts. Bhikkhu Anālayo's presentation is meant to provide direct access, through the medium of translation, to the Chinese Āgama parallels to relevant Pāli discourses. In commenting on such passages, his chief concern throughout is to bring out practical aspects that are relevant to actual insight meditation. Endorsements In spring 1990 S.N. Goenka initiated an international seminar named The Importance of Vedanā and Sampajañña. It had the purpose to disseminate the prominence of sensations (vedanā) as a core object of meditation to recognize the intrinsic nature of change and impermanence. Venerable Bhikkhu Anālayo now provides a thorough, comprehensive and well selected collection on vedanā as maintained in the original early Pāli Canon. Along with the comparison to the Chinese Āgama, otherwise hardly available, this collection if adapted and applied to practice may indeed serve as an inspiring source for deepening insight. —Klaus Nothnagel, Pāli teacher and Center Teacher for Dhamma Pallava in Poland