title: The Dhammapada: The Essential Teachings of the Buddha (Sacred Texts)
author: Dr. Max Muller
description: <b>Dr F. Max Muller</b>(deceased) was Professor of Philology at Oxford University and the celebrated editor of the fifty-volume Sacred Books of the East series, which brought the most important Eastern scriptures to the notice of the Western world. Muller's elegant English prose is consistently faithful to the original Pali of the Dhammapada.<b>Kevin Trainor</b>is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Vermont. He has written a number of highly regarded books on Bhuddhism.
zlib_text: **BHIKKHUNI VINAYA STUDIES**
  
  RESEARCH & REFLECTIONS ON MONASTIC DISCIPLINE FOR BUDDHIST NUNS
  
   **BHIKKHU SUJATO**
  
    
    
  
   _Gotamī, those principles of which you know:_  
   _These principles lead to dispassion, not passion;_  
   _to being unfettered, not fettered;_  
   _to getting rid of, not heaping up;_  
   _to few wishes, not many wishes;_  
   _to contentment, not discontentment;_  
   _to seclusion, not socializing;_  
   _to arousal of energy, not laziness;_  
   _to being easy to support, not hard to support.’_  
   _You may definitely hold: This is Dhamma, This is Vinaya, This is the
  Teaching of the Buddha.’_
  
  —THE BUDDHA,  
  AṄGUTTARA NIKĀYA 8.53,  
  PALI VINAYA 2.258–9.
  
    
    
  
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   **SANTIPADA**
  
   _Buddhism as if life matters_
  
    
  
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