The Dhammapada

Anonymous

Summary

The Dhammapada by Anonymous is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: 1. All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage. 2. All that we are is the result of what we have th This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

Available since: 06/06/2026.

Print length: 41 pages.

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