The Dammapada: A Collection of Verses; Being One of the Canonical Books of the Buddhists

The Dhammapada is one of the most extensively read and well-known Buddhist texts. It contains a compilation of Buddha's sayings in poetic form. The original form of the Dhammapada may be found in the Khuddaka Nikaya, a part of Theravada Buddhism's Pali Canon. Each saying recorded in the collection was made on a distinct occasion in response to a particular situation that had occurred in the life of the Buddha and his monastic community, according to Buddhist scholar and commentator Buddhaghosa. This edition brings the classic 1898 translation of the reputed orientalist F. Max Muller, one of the greatest specialists in Indology in the history of the West.