Nonfiction · about 300 BC
Dhammapada, a Collection of Verses
Being One of the Canonical Books of the Buddhists
· translated by F. Max Müller
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Contents
- Chapter I — The Twin-Verses
- Chapter II — On Earnestness
- Chapter III — Thought
- Chapter IV — Flowers
- Chapter V — The Fool
- Chapter VI — The Wise Man (Pandita)
- Chapter VII — The Venerable (Arhat)
- Chapter VIII — The Thousands
- Chapter IX — Evil
- Chapter X — Punishment
- Chapter XI — Old Age
- Chapter XII — Self
- Chapter XIII — The World
- Chapter XIV — The Buddha (The Awakened)
- Chapter XV — Happiness
- Chapter XVI — Pleasure
- Chapter XVII — Anger
- Chapter XVIII — Impurity
- Chapter XIX — The Just
- Chapter XX — The Way
- Chapter XXI — Miscellaneous
- Chapter XXII — The Downward Course
- Chapter XXIII — The Elephant
- Chapter XXIV — Thirst
- Chapter XXV — The Bhikshu (Mendicant)
- Chapter XXVI — The Brahmana (Arhat)
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