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Khuddaka Nikaya - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Khuddaka Nikaya write by Source Wikipedia. This book was released on 2013-09. Khuddaka Nikaya available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Apad na, Atthakavagga and Parayanavagga, Buddhavamsa, Cariyapitaka, Dhammapada, Dhammika Sutta, Itivuttaka, Khuddakapatha, List of Khuddaka Nikaya suttas, Mangala Sutta, Metta Sutta, Milinda Panha, Nettipakarana, Niddesa, Patisambhidamagga, Petakopadesa, Petavatthu, Ratana Sutta, Rhinoceros Sutra, Sutta Nipata, Theragatha, Therigatha, Udana, Vimanavatthu. Excerpt: The Dhammapada (P li; Prakrit: Dhamapada; Sanskrit: 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. The 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. The title, Dhammapada, is a compound term composed of dhamma and pada, each word having a number of denotations and connotations. Generally, dhamma can refer to the Buddha's "doctrine" or an "eternal truth" or "righteousness" or all "phenomena"; and, at its root, pada means "foot" and thus by extension, especially in this context, means either "path" or "verse" (cf. "prosodic foot") or both. English translations of this text's title have used various combinations of these and related words. According to tradition, the Dhammapada's verses were spoken by the Buddha on various occasions. "By distilling the complex models, theories, rhetorical style and sheer volume of the Buddha's teachings into concise, crystalline verses, the Dhammapada makes the Buddhist way of life...