The Dhammapada

Description

The Dhammapada Stand for the path of Buddhist doctrine. The Buddhism arisen from the India Gautama Buddha who was the founder of this great philosophy. Who understood useless of this life therefore he wanted seek real happiness of the life so he realized eternal happiness fully enlightenment. Since who wanted to hand over his pure teachings to other but question is who can grab this difficulty teaching he recalled back his lay life remember his friends who were practice “vruta (some kinds of practice) with him during lay life Alara, kalama and Ramaputta however they were passed away on that time. Somehow who found the five mendicants Annakondannna, Badddiya, Mahanama, Assaji etc.

Explored first discourse Dhammacakkapavattana sutta, the discourse of wheel of doctrine the first monk Kondanna realized and attained Arahanthood from that began the Buddhist community Sangha sasana (Society). Meanwhile sangha community developed highly. There are ninety four thousands doctrine had been blessed in this world. In fact these all teaching separated into several sects known, Sutta discourse, Vinaya, discipline and Abhidhamma Ultimate teaching of the Buddha. Further these sect prescribed into texts the Sutta into five texts, Vinaya five texts and abhidhamma into seven books.

The sutta discourse written down into five books known as the following in a numerical order.

1. Digha Nikaya –The long discourses

2. Majjhima Nikaya- Middle length discourses

3. Samyutta Nikaya- The brief discourses

4. Anguttara Nikaya

5. Khuddhaka Nikaya etc

The Vinaya Discourse include into five books as the following order

1. Parajika pali

2. Paccittiya pali

3. Mahavagga pali

4. Cullavagga pali

5. Parivara pali etc

The abhidhamma text include into seven books and it is the deepest teaching of the Buddha. These can classify into the following order.

1. Dhammasangani

2. Vihhanga

3. Dhatukatha

4. Puggalapannati

5. Kathavattu

6. Yamaka

7. Patthana etc.

The text dhammapada or dhammapada or the path of the which belong to the khuddhaka nikaya there are twenty six vaggas consist in this text and nearly five hundred of stanzas (verses) rich it. As it is the most useful text for the Buddhist followers sometime known as Buddhist hand book because in this text teach someone to be a good person in the society while abstain from doing evil with more than hundreds of parable which illustrate what’s good deed and what’s bad deed and how away from doing bad thing and its result. As if someone doing evil thing that result and what happen on the next birth that person which show in this text.
In fact, when talking about the dhammapada mobile application that includes Pali stanza all vaggas and also its translation as well as folk stories (Jataka) every verse relevant to particular verse. By considering of all these fact we can believe that even new followers can understand easily and apply into day today life. Consisting of this application

1. Pali language

2. Translation

3. Jataka (folk Stories) etc.

The pali language is the second oldest scripts in the world which derived from scripts called Magadha. Magadha is one of kingdom in India during the time of Buddha however on that contemporary period there had used mainly three scripts which are known as Magdha, the Sanskrit language used by the high caste people especially king and the brahmins people. The Prakrit language used by the general people while Magadha language used by the lower caste people. Lord Buddha also used Pali language to promulgate his teaching large number of people in India its say because at that time most of the people spoke Magadha language.As Buddha believed that he can make big audience for his teaching if he select lower caste language. According to the some Buddhist legend those who speak Pali clarify as lowest caste people among the society.in fact language of Magadha today known as Pali.The jataka in English folk stories that describe previous life of the Buddha.