The Dhammapada: A Collection of Verses : Being One of the Canonical Books of the BuddhistsFriedrich Max Müller |
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... ask the Muni of great understanding , ' - so said Kunda , the smith , - ' Buddha , the lord of the Dhamma , who is ... thee , being asked in person ; ( they are ) Maggaginas and Maggadesakas , Maggagivins and Maggadusins . ' ( 83 ) 3 ...
... ask the Muni of great understanding , ' - so said Kunda , the smith , - ' Buddha , the lord of the Dhamma , who is ... thee , being asked in person ; ( they are ) Maggaginas and Maggadesakas , Maggagivins and Maggadusins . ' ( 83 ) 3 ...
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... ask ( thee ) , Gotama , about a man that suffers loss ; having come to ask , Bhagavat , ( tell us ) what is the cause ( of loss ) to the losing ( man ) . ' ( 90 ) 2. Bhagavat : ' The winner is easily known , easily known ( is also ) the ...
... ask ( thee ) , Gotama , about a man that suffers loss ; having come to ask , Bhagavat , ( tell us ) what is the cause ( of loss ) to the losing ( man ) . ' ( 90 ) 2. Bhagavat : ' The winner is easily known , easily known ( is also ) the ...
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... thee , O friend , do what thou pleasest . ' ' I shall ask thee a question , O Samana , if thou canst not answer it , I will either scatter thy thoughts or cleave thy heart , or take thee by thy feet and throw thee over to the other ...
... thee , O friend , do what thou pleasest . ' ' I shall ask thee a question , O Samana , if thou canst not answer it , I will either scatter thy thoughts or cleave thy heart , or take thee by thy feet and throw thee over to the other ...
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... thou sayest , ' O Brahman ( brahmabandhu , although ) enjoying food ( made ) of rice together with the well - prepared flesh of birds . I ask thee , O Kassapa , the meaning of this , of what description ( is then ) thy Âmagandha ...
... thou sayest , ' O Brahman ( brahmabandhu , although ) enjoying food ( made ) of rice together with the well - prepared flesh of birds . I ask thee , O Kassapa , the meaning of this , of what description ( is then ) thy Âmagandha ...
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... ask the Master of excellent understand- ing : he who in this world had cut off doubt , died at Aggâlava , a Bhikkhu , well known , famous , and of a calm mind . ( 342 ) " ( ( 2. The name Nigrodhakappa " was given to that Brahmana by thee ...
... ask the Master of excellent understand- ing : he who in this world had cut off doubt , died at Aggâlava , a Bhikkhu , well known , famous , and of a calm mind . ( 342 ) " ( ( 2. The name Nigrodhakappa " was given to that Brahmana by thee ...
Common terms and phrases
Abhidhamma Agita amongst Arhat ask thee Asoka assembly of Bhikkhus attributes still remain bestow oblations Bhagavat dwelt Bhikkhu leaves birth Brâh Buddha Buddhaghosa Buddhist Burnouf cause of loss Childers cloth Comp conquered death delight Dhamma Dhammapada Dîpavamsa dispute doubt Dyad Dyad duly Edition ended evil existence Extra fcap Fausböll fool free from desire fruits one fruit further shore Gatila gods gone hell houseless Keniya king Kosala let one know let one wander let the Brâhmana living Magadha Mahâvamsa Mâra Master further spoke mind Muni Nirvâna offer origin of pain outcast overcome Pâli Paribbâgaka passion phassa rhinoceros Sabhiya Sakyas Samana Samana Gotama Sanskrit Sela sensual pleasures sexual intercourse snake quits stanzas Sugata Sundarikabhâradvâga tassa Tathagata tell things thou art thoughtful tion Tipitaka translation truth understanding upadhi venerable Gotama verse Vinaya virtue and holy wander rightly Whosoever wise words world perfect knowledge worn out skin Yakkha
Popular passages
Page 3 - All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.
Page 42 - Looking for the maker of this tabernacle, I shall have to run through a course of many births, so long as I do not find (him); and painful is birth again and again. But now, maker of the tabernacle, thou hast been seen; thou shalt not make up this tabernacle again. All thy rafters are broken, thy ridge-pole is sundered; the mind, approaching the Eternal (visankhara, nirvana), has attained to the extinction of all desires.
Page 47 - Look upon the world as a bubble, look upon it as a mirage : the king of death does not see him who thus looks down upon the world.
Page 9 - EARNESTNESS is the path of immortality (Nirvana), thoughtlessness the path of death. Those who are in earnest do not die, those who are thoughtless are as if dead already.
Page 5 - For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.
Page 60 - Let a wise man blow off the impurities of his self, as a smith blows off the impurities of silver, one by one, little by little, and from time to time.
Page 44 - Men who have not observed proper discipline, and have not gained wealth in their youth, perish like old herons in a lake without fish.
Page 45 - Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord? With self well subdued, a man finds a lord such as few can find.
Page 66 - Muni, and is a Muni thereby; he who in this world weighs both sides is called a Muni.
Page 21 - Old English Drama. Marlowe's Tragical History of Dr. Faustus, and Greene's Honourable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. Edited by AW Ward, MA, Professor of History and English Literature in Owens College, Manchester.