NAME¶
display‐dhammapada - display a verse from the Dhammapada
SYNOPSIS¶
display‐dhammapada [OPTIONS] [num]
dhamma [OPTIONS]
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.
display‐dhammapada and
dhamma both print to the standard
output.
xdhamma prints using
notify‐send
See
man xdhamma for details
OPTIONS¶
- ‐r
- Use the Richards translation (default).
- ‐m
- Use the Muller translation.
- ‐b
- Display corresponding verses from both translations.
- ‐pl
- Use the Polish translation (default for Polish locale).
- [num]
- Print the given number verse.
- all
- Print all the verses.
With no arguments a random verse is printed.
EXAMPLES¶
To display a verse each time you log in on a console or open a terminal, put
display‐dhammapada in your
~/.profile,
~/.bash_profile or
~/.login, as appropriate for your shell.
To display a verse each time you log in on a graphical (X Window) session, run
xdhamma in your DE session start‐up or
~/.xsession.
To use display‐dhammapada with cowsay
display‐dhammapada | cowsay ‐W 120 ‐t
To use display‐dhammapada with zenity
display‐dhammapada | zenity ‐‐text‐info
‐‐title="Dhammapada Verse" ‐‐width=600
‐‐height=200
KDE 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/\n\s*\n\s*\n/\n%\n/g' >~/.kde/share/apps/amor/tips
Then start amor K‐>Toys‐>Amor, right click on amor
animation, select "Options" and check "Show random tips".
One can automatically attach Dhammapada verse in e-mail footer. To do this with
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¶
notify‐send
BUGS¶
Please report bugs on Launchpad :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/display-dhammapada
AUTHORS¶
Authors: Program: display-dhammapada was originally written by Richard Cepas
<rch@online.lt> and later updated by
bodhi.zazen <bodhizazen
at fedoraproject dot org> and
paultag <paultag at ubuntu.com>
Copyright GPL v3
Home Page:
http://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/