The Dhammapada and the Sutta Nipata: Second Edition Muller Max Paperback
The Dhammapada and the Sutta Nipata: Second Edition Muller Max Paperback Beginning this work, Max Muller provides a thorough introduction to his translation of the Dhammapada -- perhaps the…
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The Dhammapada and the Sutta Nipata: Second Edition Muller Max Paperback
Beginning this work, Max Muller provides a thorough introduction to his translation of the Dhammapada -- perhaps the best-loved piece of Buddhist scripture. The translation itself is accompanied by copious notes on the choices Muller made in rendering the original Pali into English. In it he explores the chronology of early Buddhism and its literature.
Danish scholar Viggo Fausboll then offers his introduction to and translation of the Sutta Nipata, a text generally reckoned to be among the most primitive parts of the Theravada Buddhist canon on the grounds of its language and the stage in the formation of Buddhism that it depicts. The Dhammapada, a collection of wisdom-sayings, is traditionally held to consist of words spoken by the Buddha on various occasions. The Sutta Nipata consists of verse and prose passages celebrating the path to enlightenment discovered by the Buddha, a wisdom
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