Freely available translations of the Dhammapada
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Here's a list:
- AccessToInsight's Dhammapada - various translations (Buddharakkhita, Thanissaro, and a few others) - web-based
- Suttacentral's Dhammapada - various translations (Anandajoti, Buddharakkhita) - web-based
- Ven. Thanissaro's translation of Dhammapada - in PDF
- Ven. Thanissaro's translation of Dhammapada - web-based
- Acharya Buddharakkhita's translation of Dhammapada - in PDF
- Ven. Anandajoti's translation of Dhammapada - in PDF, includes Pali text
- Ven. Anandajoti's translation of Dhammapada - web-based, PDF, epub and MOBI, includes Pali text
- Ven. Narada's translation of Dhammapada - in PDF, epub and MOBI
- Bhikkhu Pesala's version of Ven. Narada's Dhammapada - web-based, enhanced with commentary
- Ven. Weragoda Sarada Thero's translation of Dhammapada - in PDF, includes commentary and Pali text
- Ven. Weragoda Sarada Thero's translation of Dhammapada - web-based, illustrated
- P. Lal's translation of Dhammapada - in PDF
- Buddhist Legends, translated by E. W. Burlingame - in epub, MOBI - complete stories of the Dhammapada
- Thomas Byrom's translation of Dhammapada - in PDF, rendered into English poetry
- Max Müller's translation of the Dhammapada - web-based, MOBI and epub
You can find many more Dhammapada PDF versions here.
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The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories
Dhammapada is one of the best known books of the Pitaka. It is a collection of the teachings of the Buddha expressed in clear, pithy verses. These verses were culled from various discourses given by the Buddha in the course of forty-five years of his teaching, as he travelled in the valley of the Ganges (Ganga) and the sub-mountain tract of the Himalayas. These verses are often terse, witty and convincing. Whenever similes are used, they are those that are easily understood even by a child, e.g., the cart's wheel, a man's shadow, a deep pool, flowers. Through these verses, the Buddha exhorts one to achieve that greatest of all conquests, the conquest of self; to escape from the evils of passion, hatred and ignorance; and to strive hard to attain freedom from craving and freedom from the round of rebirths. Each verse contains a truth (dhamma), an exhortation, a piece of advice.
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Eight translations side by side
- Pāḷi Tipiṭaka (PTS) [1]
- Pāḷi Tipiṭaka (CSCD) [2]
- Translated from the Pali by Ven Nārada Thera ) [3]
- Translated from the Pali by Ven. Ācharya Buddharakkhita ) [4]
- Translated from the Pali by Ven. Thanissaro Bhikkhu ) [5]
- Translated from the Pali by Ven. Varado Bhikkhu ) [6]
- Translated from the Pali by Friedrich Max Müller) [7]
- Cited from DLMBS [8]
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