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 1  Pre    |       from my conviction that the text deserved to be offered freely
 2  Pre    |        those who want to read the text as a text, in the context
 3  Pre    |        want to read the text as a text, in the context of the religious
 4  Pre    |        those who want to read the text as a guide to the personal
 5  Int    |           traditions to which the text belongs. Although it is
 6  Int    |  Dhammapada is quite strong. ~The text also explicitly adds to
 7  Int    |         given unity. Although the text does not provide a step-by-step
 8  Int    |       from another early Buddhist text, the Samyutta Nikaya (LV.
 9  Int    |        the literal meaning of the text, I've also tried to convey
10  Int    |    Buddhist mindset. However, the text is by no means elementary,
11  Int    |           two traditions that the text represents. ~I hope that
12    1(17)|         verses and throughout the text means one's destination
13 Notes   |             Historical Notes: The Text and the Translation~By Thanissaro
14 Notes   | Dhammapada. Parts of a Dharmapada text are included in the Mahavastu,
15 Notes   |      included in the Mahavastu, a text belonging to the Lokottaravadin
16 Notes   |         and Chinese versions of a text called the Udanavarga, which
17 Notes   |          original language of the text, and will further make assumptions
18 Notes   |          original" version of the text that is just that: very
19 Notes   |         about the position of the text. ~Thus, although the scholarship
20 Notes   |           variant readings of the text, none of the assumptions
21 Notes   |           original version of the text, and that it was composed
22 Notes   |          multiple versions of the text as a sign, not of faulty
23 Notes   |        language or "the" original text of the Dhp somewhat irrelevant. ~
24 Notes   |        any event, the fact that a text was a later addition to
25 Notes   |          of other versions of the text were also available for
26 Notes   |        treating the Pali Dhp as a text with its own integrity --
27 Notes   |        from three editions of the text: the Pali Text Society (
28 Notes   |    editions of the text: the Pali Text Society (PTS) edition edited
29 Notes   |     Buddha's words, or to any one text that once existed in ancient
30  Abb    |          Mahavagga~PTS ..... Pali Text Society~S ..... Samyutta
31  Bib    |         Patna Dharmapada, Part I: Text," in Journal of the Pali
32  Bib    |            in Journal of the Pali Text Society, XIII, 1989: 101-
33  Bib    |      Dhammapada. Oxford: The Pali Text Society, 1995. ~Norman,
34  Bib    |        Doctrine. Oxford: The Pali Text Society, 1997. ~Warder,