Dhammapada, Dhamma-pada: 9 definitions
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In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
The second book of the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Sutta Pitaka.
It is probably a later anthology than the Thera Theri Gatha, and its earliest mention by name is in the Milinda panha (p.408).
It includes gathas collected together from various books in the Canon, but contains hardly any from the Jataka collection, or directly derived from the Sutta Nipata.
The present text of the Dhammapada contains four hundred and twenty three verses divided into twenty six vaggas.
So far, five recensions of the Dhammapada have been discovered. (For details see Law: Pali Lit., pp.215f).
A commentary on it exists called the Dhammapadatthakatha.
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
General definition (in Buddhism)
Dhammapada in Pali, Dharmapada in Sanskrit. A sutra consisting of two sections and 39 chapters, with 423 short verses of the Buddha, teachings given at various times and places. It is regarded as the "original" teaching of the Buddha, which can be used for reference, moral instruction and inspiration. It was composed by Dharmatrata in 400-300 B.C.The Dhammapada (Pali; Prakrit: Dhamapada; Sanskrit Dharmapada) is a versified Buddhist scripture traditionally ascribed to the Buddha himself. It is one of the best known texts from the Theravada canon.
According to tradition, the Dhammapadas verses were spoken by the Buddha on various occasions. Most verses deal with ethics. The text is part of the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Sutta Pitaka, although over half of the verses exist in other parts of the Pali Canon. A 4th or 5th century CE commentary attributed to Buddhaghosa includes 305 stories which give context to the verses.
Although the Pali edition is the best known, a number of other versions are known:
- Gandhari Dharmapada - a version possibly of Dharmaguptaka or Kasyapiya origin in Gandhari written in Kharosthi script
- Patna Dharmapada - a version in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, most likely Sammatiya
- Udanavarga - a seemingly related Mula Sarvastivada or Sarvastivada text in
- 3 Sanskrit versions
- a Tibetan translation, which is popular in traditional Tibetan Buddhism
- Mahavastu - a Lokottaravada text with parallels to verses in the Pali Dhammapadas Sahassa Vagga and Bhikkhu Vagga.
- Fajiu jing - 4 Chinese works; one of these appears to be an expanded translation of the Pali version; this has not traditionally been very popular.
The Dhammapada is considered one of the most popular pieces of Theravada literature. A critical edition of the Dhammapada was produced by Danish scholar Viggo Fausboll in 1855, becoming the first Pali text to receive this kind of examination by the European academic community.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
dhammapada : (nt.) a line or stanza of the Norm.
Dhammapada refers to: (nt.) a line or stanza of the Dhamma, a sentence containing an ethical aphorism; a portion or piece of the Dh. In the latter meaning given as 4 main subjects, viz. anabhijjhā, avyāpāda, sammā-sati, sammā-samādhi D.III, 229; A.II, 29 sq. (in detail); Nett 170.—S.I, 22 (dānā ca kho dh-padaṃ va seyyo). 202 (dh-padesu chando); A.II, 185; Sn.88 (dh-pade sudesite=nibbāna-dhammassa padattā SnA 164); J.III, 472 (=nibbāna); DhA.III, 190 (ekaṃ dh-padaṃ). As Np. title of a canonical book, included in the Khuddaka Nikāya;
Note: dhammapada is a Pali compound consisting of the words dhamma and pada.
dhammapada (ဓမ္မပဒ) [(na) (န)]—
[dhamma+pada．(dhamapada-saṃ,dhammapadaprā,dhammapadaya-sī)]
[ဓမ္မ+ပဒ။ (ဓမပဒ-သံ၊ ဓမ္မပဒပြာ၊ ဓမ္မပဒယ-သီဟိုဠ်)]
[Pali to Burmese]
dhammapada—
(Burmese text): (၁) တရားအဖို့အစု၊ (က) ဗောဓိပက္ခိယ ၃၇-ပါး တရားအစု။ (ခ) သတိပဋ္ဌာန်စသော တရားအစု။ (ဂ) ဈာန်,-ဝိပဿနာ,မဂ်,ဖိုလ်,နိဗ္ဗာန်တရားအစု၊ (ဃ) အကျိုးကို ပြီးစေတတ်သော ခန္ဓာ-စသည်တို့နှင့် စပ်သော အနဘိဇ္ဈာစသောတရား အဖို့အစု ၄-ခုတို့တွင် အဖို့အစု ၁-ခုခု။ (၂) သမာဓိဈာန်စသည် အပြားရှိသော တရားကို-ကျင့်-ရ-သိ-ကြောင်းနည်းလမ်း။ (၃) ဈာန်စသည် အပြားရှိသော တရားကို-ကျင့်-ရ-သိ-ကြောင်းနည်းလမ်း။ (၄) နိဗ္ဗာန်။ (၅) နိဗ္ဗာန်ရောက်ကြောင်းတရား၊ မဂ်။ (၆) အလုံးစုံသော ဘုရားစကားတော် (ပိဋက ၃-ပုံ သဒ္ဒါအစဉ်)။ (၇) ဓမ္မဟူသောပုဒ်။ (၈) ဓမ္မပဒသုတ်။ (၉) ဓမ္မပဒကျမ်း (၂၆-ဝဂ်ရှိ ဓမ္မပဒပါဠိ)၊ (က) သင်္ခါရ,ဝိကာရ,လက္ခဏ,နိဗ္ဗာန်ပညတ်ဟူသော ဉေယျဓံ ၅-ပါး တရားတို့ကို-သိရာ-သိကြောင်း-ကျမ်း။ (ခ) ဉေယျဓံ ၅-ပါး တရားအဖို့အစုရှိရာ ကျမ်း။ (ဂ) ရွတ်ဖတ်သင်ယူချင်စဖွယ် မနောပုဗ္ဗင်္ဂမာ-စသော အဖွဲ့ဂါထာ ပါဠိဓမ္မတို့ကို-သိရာ-သိကြောင်းကျမ်း။ (ဃ) ရွတ်ဖတ်သင်ယူချင်စဖွယ် မနောပုဗ္ဗင်္ဂမာ-စသော အဖွဲ့ဂါထာ ပါဠိဓမ္မ အဖို့ရှိရာကျမ်း။မူရင်းကြည့်ပါ
(Auto-Translation): (1) The collection of teachings for righteousness, (a) The collection of 37 principles of Buddhism. (b) The collection of teachings related to awareness and meditation. (c) The collection of teachings on the four foundations of mind, tranquility, and nirvana. (d) One collection of teachings associated with phenomena that can lead to results, including bodily elements. (2) The method of practice for realizing teachings that promote harmonious conduct. (3) The method of practice for realizing teachings related to tranquility. (4) Nirvana. (5) The principle of reaching nirvana, the ultimate goal. (6) The comprehensive teachings of the Buddha (the initial verses of the Pali Canon 3). (7) The verse known as Dhamma. (8) The Dhammapada teachings. (9) The Dhammapada scripture (the Pali verses from the 26th chapter of the Dhammapada), (a) A scripture that teaches the five qualities known as characteristics, functions, signs, and the ultimate goal of nirvana. (b) A scripture that contains the collection of the five qualities. (c) A scripture that conveys the teachings of the group verses related to the desire to study the Dhamma of the Mahayana. (d) A scripture containing the group verses of the Mahayana that one wishes to read and learn.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
Kannada-English dictionary
Dhammapada (ಧಮ್ಮಪದ):—[noun] the Buddhist scripture, containing the sayings of the Buddha.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Sanskrit dictionary
Dhammapada (in Sanskrit) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 法句經 [fǎ jù jīng]: “Faju jing” [Chinese text name]; Alternatively: “Dharma-phrase Sutra” [English text name]; Alternatively: “Dhammapada”; “Dharmapada” [Sanskrit text name].
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: The, The, Pada, Te, Dhammapada, Pata, Dhamma, Dharma, Dharma, Dharma.
Starts with: Dhammapada Sutta, Dhammapadabhanaka, Dhammapadabhanakamahatissatthera, Dhammapadabyanjana, Dhammapadagatha, Dhammapadamahatika, Dhammapadanidana, Dhammapadapali, Dhammapadapatha, Dhammapadattha, Dhammapadatthakatha, Dhammapadatthakathaganthipadatthadipani, Dhammapadatthanabhumi.
Full-text (+387): Dhammapadanidana, Kodha Vagga, Dhammapadapatha, Dhammapada Sutta, Dhammapadatthakatha, Magga Vagga, Dhammapadamahatika, Dhammapadagatha, Pannattitthana, Dhammapadatthakathaganthipadatthadipani, Dhammapadattha, Citta Vagga, Danda Vagga, Dhammattha Vagga, Loka Vagga, Dhammapadabhanaka, Catutthadhammapada, Mala Vagga, Pakinnaka Vagga, Papa Vagga.
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