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1、oxfordworld’sclassicsTHEDHAMMAPADATheDhammapada,‘sayingsofdhamma’—thatis,religiouslyinspiringstatements—isthePa¯liversionofoneofthemostpopulartextsoftheBuddhistcanon.LikeallreligioustextsinPa¯li,itbelongstotheTherava¯daschooloftheBuddhisttraditionwhosepar
2、ticipantsareatpresentfoundprimarilyinKampuchea,Laos,Myanmar,SriLanka,andThailand.Com-piledinverse,itisareligiousworkmeanttoinculcateacertainsetofreligiousandethicalvalues,aswellasacertainmannerofperceptionoflifeanditsproblemsandtheirsolutions.Thatithasper
3、formedthistaskwithremarkablesuccessishardlydebatable.PerhapsthebesttestimonyforthatisitsenduringpopularityamongBuddhistsofalldenominations,throughoutthecenturiesoftheirexistence.JohnRossCarterisProfessorandChairoftheDepartmentofPhilosophyandReligionandthe
4、RobertHung-NgaiHoProfessorofAsianStudiesatColgateUniversity.Hehaswritten,edited,andcontributedtoseveralotherbooksonthereligioustraditionsofAsia.MahindaPalihawadanaisProfessorofSanskritEmeritusatSriJayawardhanapuraUniversityinSriLanka.Hehaswrittenseveralar
5、ticlesonTherava¯daBuddhistthought.oxfordworld’sclassicsForalmost100yearsOxfordWorld’sClassicshavebroughtreadersclosertotheworld’sgreatliterature.Nowwithover700titles—fromthe4,000-year-oldmythsofMesopotamiatothetwentiethcentury’sgreatestnovels—theseriesmak
6、esavailablelesser-knownaswellascelebratedwriting.Thepocket-sizedhardbacksoftheearlyyearscontainedintroductionsbyVirginiaWoolf,T.S.Eliot,GrahamGreene,andotherliteraryfigureswhichenrichedtheexperienceofreading.Todaytheseriesisrecognizedforitsfinescholarshipan
7、dreliabilityintextsthatspanworldliterature,dramaandpoetry,religion,philosophyandpolitics.Eacheditionincludesperceptivecommentaryandessentialbackgroundinformationtomeetthechangingneedsofreaders.OXFORDWORLD’SCLASSICSTheDhammapadaTranslatedwithanIntroduction
8、andNotesbyJOHNROSSCARTERandMAHINDAPALIHAWADANA13GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dpOxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford.ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship,andeduc
