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The Dhammapada

The most-loved short Buddhist text — 423 verses on the path of the awakened

Translator: Friedrich Max Müller (1823–1900), 1881.

Source: Oxford University Press (Sacred Books of the East)

Licence: Public Domain. From The Dhammapada and Sutta-Nipata, translated by Friedrich Max Müller and V. Fausböll — Sacred Books of the East, volume 10. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1881. Strict public domain. Lightly modernised by Soul Spirit Self (archaic verb forms and pronouns updated; substantive translation choices preserved).

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Probably the most widely read book in the Pali canon — 423 short verses gathered into twenty-six chapters on the path of the awakened. The Dhammapada is the Buddhist tradition's most concentrated source of contemplative aphorism, much as the Tao Te Ching is for the Taoist tradition.