The Pali Dhammapada: The Word and Wisdom of the Buddha in Romanized Pali (Pali Edition)

The Dhammapada is a small part of the Buddhist Pali Canon, accounting for just 423 verses out of the Canon's more than 500,000 verses. Despite its comparatively small size, the Dhammapada has loomed large for thousands of years. The reason for the Dhammapada's millennias-long popularity is that it brings together and summarizes all the major threads of the teachings of the Buddha, with a special focus on ethics. For this reason, the Dhammapada is both the ideal starting point for newcomers to Buddhism and a reliable touchstone for lifelong Buddhist practitioners.

The Pali Dhammapada contains the original romanized Pali script of the Dhammapada. It is a Pali language spiritual reference work for Buddhist practitioners excited to experience the Word of the Buddha in a form as close to the original spoken word of the Buddha as possible.

MATTHEW MEGHAPRASARA is a practicing Buddhist, runs NewGuide.org, and is the author, editor or translator of a number of books, including:

• New Guide to the Tipitaka: A Complete Reference to the Pali Buddhist Canon
• Buddhism by the Numbers: An Introduction to the Ancient and Ever-Vital Teachings of the Buddha
• The Parallel Dhammapada: Original Pali Text & Four Translations
• The Pali Dhammapada: The Words and Wisdom of the Buddha in Roman Pali
• The American Dhammapada: A Twenty-First Century Translation of the Buddha's Dhammapada