(:source 
  :version  3 
  :window-geometry  (:rect  :left  40  :top  57  :right  475  :bottom 
			    372  ) 
  :configuration "Tool \"MTCP\" "
  :ip-address "150.203.76.2"
  :ip-name "coombs.anu.edu.au"
  :tcp-port  210 
  :script ""
  :database-name "ANU-Dhammapada-Verses"
  :update-time 
  (:time-interval 
    :interval  :continuous 
    :day  0 
    :hour  0 
    :min  0 
    ) 
  :cost  0.000000 
  :cost-unit  :dollars-per-minute 
  :maintainer "wais@coombs.anu.edu.au"
  :description "
ANU-Dhammapada-Verses
Version 1.0	November 1993

The Dhammapada is an anthology of verses, belonging to the part
of the Theravada Pali Canon of scriptures known as the Khuddaka
Nikaya, and consists of 423 verses.

English translation from the Pal, completed in 1993, is by John
Richards <jhr@elidor.demon.co.uk>

Something like a quarter of the verses are to be found in other
parts of the Pali Tipitaka, particularly in the other verse parts
of the Khuddaka Nikaya such as the Sutta Nipata and the Thera-
and Theri-gatha.

The Dhammapada is probably the most popular book of the Pali
Canon, with the possible exception of the Satipatthana Sutta, or
the Sutta on the Turning of the Wheel of the Law
(Dhamma-cakka-ppavattana Sutta). It is certainly the most
frequently translated portion.

Like most anthologies of verses, the Dhammapada is very uneven.
Some verses are both profound and deeply poetic. Others are
awkward, and little more than a list of technical terms. The
overall effect of the Dhammapada however is undoubtedly of high
moral and spiritual earnestness, and a typically Buddhist gentle
persuasiveness. It would be hard to point to a poetic book of a
similar length in world religious literature of a correspondingly
sustained level.

[The complete text of the translation can be acquired from the
Electronic Buddhist Archives in a sub-directory
coombspapers/otherarchives via anonymous FTP and/or COOMBSQUEST
gopher on the node COOMBS.ANU.EDU.AU]

This WAIS server was created by the Coombs Computing Unit, ANU
[S. Batt, T.M. Ciolek, R. Hurle, Y. Pittelkow, G. Longmuir, H.
Walker, D. Whaite] on the basis of documents deposited with the
Coombspapers Social Sciences Research Data Bank, Research Schools
of Social Sciences and Pacific Studies, Australian National
University,  Canberra ACT 0200.  Phone: +61 6 249 4600; fax: +61
6 257 1893; email: wais@coombs.anu.edu.au

Dbase editor: Dr T. Matthew Ciolek  tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au

Keywords:
Asia, Asian, Buddhism, Buddhist, Hinayana, Theravada, Theravadin,
Tripitaka, moral and ethical guidelines, poetry, religion,
religious, sacred texts, sutras, sutra,
"
  :contact-at 
  (:time-interval 
      :interval  :unschedualed 
      :day  0 
      :hour  0 
      :min  0 
      ) 
  :last-contacted  (:absolute-time 
      :year  0 
      :month  0 
      :mday  0 
      :hour  0 
      :minute  0 
      :second  61 
      ) 
  :confidence  0 
  :num-docs-to-request  50 
  :font "Geneva"
  :font-size  10 
  )
