DISPLAY-DHAMMAPADA(1) General Commands Manual DISPLAY-DHAMMAPADA(1)
NAME
display-dhammapada - display a verse from the Dhammapada
SYNOPSIS
display-dhammapada [-r | -m | -b | -pl] [<number> | all]
dhamma [-r | -m | -b | -pl] [<number> | all]
xdhamma [<number>]
gtk-dhammapada
OPTIONS
-r Use John Richard's translation (default)
-m Use F. Max Muller's translation
-b Display the same verse(s) from both
-pl Use Polish language translation
<number>
specify the number of the verse(s) to display
all display all file at once
With no arguments a random verse is printed.
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. One of the translations is by John Richards; the other is an older translation by F. Max Muller. Polish translation is
by Zbigniew Becker.
display-dhammapada prints to the standard output.
xdhamma prints using xmessage on an X Window screen, or in bold using tputs on a text terminal.
EXAMPLES
To display a verse each time you log in on a terminal, put display-dhammapada or xdhamma in your ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile or ~/.login,
as appropriate for your shell.
To display a verse each time you log in on X Window, put xdhamma in your ~/.xsession.
KDE 2.1 has "amor" toy that can display various tips. To use the dhammapada for that enter these commands at shell prompt:
mkdir ~/.kde/share/apps/amor
display-dhammapada -r all |perl -0777 -pe 's/
s*
s*
/
%
/g' >~/.kde/share/apps/amor/tips
Then start amor K->Toys->Amor, right click on amor animation, select "Options" and select "Allow application tips" and "Show random tips".
Use gtk-dhammapada to display verse in GTK window.
To automatically attach Dhammapada verse in e-mail footer. To do this in mutt add set signature=display-dhammapada| in your ~/.muttrc file.
FILES
/usr/share/display-dhammapada/dhammapada-english-transl.txt
/usr/share/display-dhammapada/dhammapada-alternate.txt
/usr/share/display-dhammapada/dhammapada-polish-transl.txt
SEE ALSO
xmessage(1), tput(1).
BUGS
You may found that xmessage and hence xdhamma is broken on XFree 4.0x.
AUTHORS
Program: Copyright (C) January 1997-2003 by Richard Cepas <rch@online.lt> and contributors, placed in the public domain.
See http://unicode.strangled.net/me/rch/dd.html
Richards' English translation of the Dhammapada: Copyright (C) 1993 John Richards, Pembrokeshire (UK), permission granted for use here.
See ftp://coombs.anu.edu.au/coombspapers/otherarchives/electronic-buddhist-archives/buddhism-general/e-texts/sutras-translations/dhamma-
pada-english-transl.txt
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/
late 20th century DISPLAY-DHAMMAPADA(1)