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The Dhammapada

The Buddha’s path of wisdom · 26 chapters

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The Dhammapada — “the path of the Dharma” — is the best-loved book of the Buddhist canon: 423 short verses on how the mind makes our world, and how to walk free of it. Read here in full, one verse at a time. Begin anywhere.

Chapter 1 · 20 verses
The Twin-Verses
Chapter 2 · 12 verses
On Earnestness
Chapter 3 · 11 verses
Thought
Chapter 4 · 15 verses
Flowers
Chapter 5 · 16 verses
The Fool
Chapter 6 · 13 verses
The Wise Man (Pandita)
Chapter 7 · 10 verses
The Venerable (Arhat).
Chapter 8 · 15 verses
The Thousands
Chapter 9 · 13 verses
Evil
Chapter 10 · 17 verses
Punishment
Chapter 11 · 10 verses
Old Age
Chapter 12 · 10 verses
Self
Chapter 13 · 12 verses
The World
Chapter 14 · 17 verses
The Buddha (The Awakened)
Chapter 15 · 12 verses
Happiness
Chapter 16 · 12 verses
Pleasure
Chapter 17 · 13 verses
Anger
Chapter 18 · 21 verses
Impurity
Chapter 19 · 14 verses
The Just
Chapter 20 · 17 verses
The Way
Chapter 21 · 16 verses
Miscellaneous
Chapter 22 · 14 verses
The Downward Course
Chapter 23 · 14 verses
The Elephant
Chapter 24 · 26 verses
Thirst
Chapter 25 · 23 verses
The Bhikshu (Mendicant)
Chapter 26 · 41 verses
The Brahmana (Arhat)

Translated by F. Max Müller (1881) — public domain.

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