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Dhammapada

A collection of 423 verses of the Buddha’s teaching, among the most loved texts of Buddhism.

Early Buddhism and the Theravāda

The Dhammapada, “verses of the Dhamma”, gathers short sayings in twenty-six chapters, on the mind, heedfulness, anger, the wise and the fool, happiness and the brahmin. It belongs to the minor collection of the Pali canon and has parallels in other early Buddhist languages. Max Müller translated it in 1881.