Tag: Udanavarga

• The Hidden Chapters: How a Textual Detective Story Is Reshaping a Sacred Buddhist Scripture

  

  The Dhammapada is one of Buddhism’s most beloved, accessible, and widely-translated texts. For over two millennia, its 423 verses, neatly organized into twenty-six chapters, have offered profound wisdom in a simple and memorable format. Practitioners and scholars alike have revered this structure as a definitive presentation of the Buddha’s core teachings. But what if the…

  William Altig

  December 12, 2025

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