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/\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 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/dhammapada-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/