The Dhammapada (with introductory Essays, Pali Text, English Translation and Notes)

The Dhammapada (with introductory Essays, Pali Text, English Translation and Notes)

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Book Specification

Item Code: NAI128
Author: S. Radhakrishnan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New Delhi
Language: Transliterated Text, English Translation and Explanation
Edition: 2013
ISBN: 9780195640809
Pages: 200
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 8.5 inch x 5.5 inch
Weight 190 gm

Book Description

Preface

The tree of civilization has its roots in spiritual values which most of us do not recognize. Without these roots the leaves would have fallen and left the tree a lifeless stump. In the history of civilization it has been the privilege of Asia to enrich the mind of the world with the noblest content of spiritual values. She has been brought into more or less direct contact with Europe-the Persian Empire, which included a part of India and Greece, the invasion of the East by Alexander, Asoka's missions to the West, the Roman Empire, which extended over a part of Asia, the Moors in Spain, and the Crusades-and each time she has left her mark on Europe.

To-day there is a world-wide renaissance. 'We have come to recognize that it is either one world or none. The effort to build one world requires a closer understanding among the peoples of the world and their cultures. This translation of the Dhammapada, the most popular and influential book of the Buddhist canonical literature, is offered as a small contribution to world understanding. The central thesis of the book, that human conduct, righteous behaviour, reflection, and meditation, are more important than vain speculations about the transcendent-has an appeal to the modern mind. Its teaching-to repress the instincts entirely is to generate neuroses; to give them full rein is also to end up in neuroses is supported by modern psychology. Books so rich in significance as the Dhammapada require to be understood by each generation in relation to its own problems. The Introductory Essays and the notes may be found useful from this standpoint.

The second Introductory Essay on Gautama the Buddha is reprinted with the kind permission of the British Academy from the Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume XXIV, being the Annual Lecture on a Master Mind delivered on 28 June 1938.

I am deeply grateful to my friend Professor F. W. Thomas for his kindness in reading the proofs and making many valuable suggestions.

Contents

PREFACE

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

I.

THE DHAMMAPADA

1

II.

GAUTAMA THE BUDDHA

3

TEXT, TRANSLATION, AND NOTES:

I.

THE TWIN-VERSES

58

II.

VIGILANCE

66

III.

THOUGHT

70

IV.

FLOWERS

74

V.

TII E FOOL.

79

VI.

THE WISE MAN

84

VII.

THE ARHAT (THE SAINT)

89

VIII.

THE THOUSANDS

93

IX.

EVIL CONDUCT

98

X.

PUNISHMENT

102

XI.

OLD AGE

108

XII.

THE SELF

112

XIII.

THE WORLD

115

XIV.

THE BUDDHA (THE AWAKENED)

119

XV.

HAPPINESS

125

XVI.

PLEASURE

128

XVII.

ANGER

131

XVIII.

IMPURITY

135

XIX.

THE RIGHTEOUS

140

XX.

THE PATH

145

XXI.

MISCELLANEOUS VERSES

151

XXII.

THE DOWNWARD COURSE (HELL)

156

XXIII.

THE ELEPHANT

160

XXIV.

THIRST (OR GRAVING)

164

XXV.

THE MENDICANT

171

XXVI.

THE BRAHMIN

177

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

188

PALI INDEX

189

GENERAL INDEX

193







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