NAME¶

fortunes‐dhammapada

SYNOPSIS¶

fortune [TRANSLATION]

Displays a verse from the Dhammapada using fortune

DESCRIPTION¶

The Dhammapada is an anthology of 423 verses from the Kuddaka Nikaya part of the Theravada Pali Canon. It contains Buddhist ethical and spiritual precepts.

Translations available: 2 English translations (by John Richard or F. Max Muller),
German, or Polish.

NOTE: Verses may contain 1 or more numbers or numbered paragraphs

TRANSLATIONS¶

dhammapada English - John Richard's Translation.

dhammapada.m English - F. Max Muller's Translation.

dhammapada.de German Translation.

dhammapada.pl Polish Translation.

EXAMPLES¶

fortune dhammapada : Displays a random verse from Richard's translation.

fortune dhammapada.m : Displays a random verse from Muller's translation.

fortune dhammapada.de : Displays a random verse from German translation.

fortune dhammapada.pl : Displays a random verse from Polish translation.

FILES¶

/usr/share/games/fortunes/dhammapada

/usr/share/games/fortunes/dhammapada.m

/usr/share/games/fortunes/dhammapada.pl

/usr/share/games/fortunes/dhammapada.de

BUGS¶

Please report bugs on : https://gitlab.com/bodhi.zazem/display‐dhammapada

SEE ALSO¶

fortune-mod

AUTHORS¶

display-dhammapada was originally written by Richard Cepas <rch@online.lt> and later modified by bodhi.zazen to be compatible with fortune.

Copyright GPL v3

Home Page: https://gitlab.com/bodhizazen.net/display‐dhammapada

Richards' English translation of the Dhammapada: Copyright (C) 1993 John Richards, Pembrokeshire (UK), permission granted for use here. See http://eawc.evansville.edu/anthology/dhammapada.htm

Muller's translation of the Dhammapada: Public Domain, used here courtesy of Project Gutenberg.

Polish translation (by Zbigniew Becker): Public Domain, as explained at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain See also http://mahajana.net/dhammapada/

German translation (by http://www.zeno.org - Contumax GmbH & Co. KG): Public Domain (Gemeinfrei, as explained at http://www.zeno.org/Zeno/-/Lizenz%3A+Gemeinfrei