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The Dhammapada is the best known and mostwidely esteemed text in the Pali Tipitaka, the sacredscriptures of Theravada Buddhism. The work is included in the Khuddaka Nikaya (“Minor Collection”)of the Sutta Pitaka, but its popularity has raised it farabove the single niche it occupies in the scriptures tothe ranks of a world religious classic. Composed in theancient Pali language, this slim anthology of versesconstitutes a perfect compendium of the Buddha’steaching, comprising between its covers all the essential principles elaborated at length in the forty-oddvolumes of the Pali Canon.