{"id":52110,"date":"2023-11-05T21:13:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T03:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindseyemag.com\/magazine\/?p=52110"},"modified":"2023-11-05T21:13:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T03:13:06","slug":"the-dhammapada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindseyemag.com\/magazine\/the-dhammapada\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dhammapada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dhammapada (P\u0101li; Prakrit: \u0927\u092e\u094d\u092e\u092a\u0926 Dhammapada; Sanskrit: \u0927\u0930\u094d\u092e\u092a\u0926 Dharmapada) is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka Nikaya, a division of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism.<br \/>\nThe Buddhist scholar and commentator Buddhaghosa explains that each saying recorded in the collection was made on a different occasion in response to a unique situation that had arisen in the life of the Buddha and his monastic community. His commentary, the Dhammapada Atthakatha, presents the details of these events and is a rich source of legend for the life and times of the Buddha.<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/Dhammapada_201307\" width=\"560\" height=\"384\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/code><br \/>\n<code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/dhammapada_2105_librivox&amp;playlist=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dhammapada (P\u0101li; Prakrit: \u0927\u092e\u094d\u092e\u092a\u0926 Dhammapada; Sanskrit: \u0927\u0930\u094d\u092e\u092a\u0926 Dharmapada) is a collection of sayings of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[637],"class_list":["post-52110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.6 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Dhammapada ~ Mind&#039;s Eye Mag<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. 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