title: The Dhammapada: A New Translation of the Buddhist Classic with Annotations
author: Jack Kornfield
description: The Dhammapada, possibly the most popular and best-known of all Buddhist texts, sums up "in the simplest language the core teachings of the Buddha," as Jack Kornfield writes in the foreword. Translator Fronsdal, a Kornfield prot&eacute;g&eacute; who has a doctorate in Buddhist studies from Stanford and has practiced Buddhism for three decades, offers a rendition that is faithful to the original Pali text, but not slavishly so. For example, right in the opening verses he translates dhamma as "experience" when it is often rendered as "teaching" or "truth," and samsara as "wandering" when it usually connotes the cycle of suffering. He also employs gender-neutral language throughout. Fronsdal provides a brief but illuminating introduction in which he describes the history of the Dhammapada and highlights two basic themes: how to obtain happiness in this and future lives, and how to achieve liberation from suffering. He discusses how some verses seem to be specifically addressed to the text's monastic audience, and suggests ways that lay Buddhists might apply those verses to themselves. <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: THE
  SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST
  VOLUME X
  PART
  I.
  THE DHAMMAPADA
  PART
  II.
  THE
  SUTTA-NIPATA
  [10]
  
  Honfron
  HENRY FROWDE
  OXFOKD
  UNIVERSITY
  FBESS WABEHOUSE
  7 PATERNOSTER ROW
  
  THE
  SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST
  TRANSLATED
  BY VARIOUS ORIENTAL SCHOLARS
  AND
  EDITED BY
  F. MAX MtiLLER
  VOLUME
  X
  PART
  I
  AT
  THE
  CLARENDON
  PRESS
  1881
  [All rights reserved]
  
  THE DHAMMAPADA
  A COLLECTION OF VERSES
  BEING ONE OF THE CANONICAL BOOKS OF THE
  BUDDHISTS
  TRANSLATED
  FROM
  PALI
  BY
  F. MAX MULLER
  AT
  THE
  CLARENDON
  PRESS
  1881
  [All
  rights reserved]
  
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  CONTENTS
  INTRODUCTION TO THE DHAMMAPADA
  Index
  97
  Transliteration
  of
  Oriental
  Alphabets
  adopted
  for
  the
  Translations of the Sacred Books of the East (see
  the
  end of this volume)
  
  INTRODUCTION
  TO
  THE DHAMMAPADA.
  THE DHAMMAPADA, A CANONICAL BOOK.
  THE Dhammapada forms part of the Pali Buddhist canon,
  though its exact place varies according to different authori
  ties, and we have not as yet a sufficient number of complete
  MSS. of the Tipi/aka to help us to decide the question
  1
  .
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