Description

One of the most popular Buddhist texts, many of the verses of which have parallels in the texts of other Buddhist schools and in non-Buddhist sources.

It is a collection of verses arranged according to their subject matter and is the first Pāli text to have been edited in Europe. It is the second book of the Khuddaka-nikāya of the Sutta-piṭaka and this edition uses all the latest research.

Ed. O. von Hinüber and K.R. Norman, 1994, 1995,
2nd ed. (with Indexes by Yamazaki, Ousaka & Miyao) 2014

Translations: The Word of the Doctrine (1997), based on the corrected reprint from 1995.