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"Neither the date nor the authorship of the Dhammapada is known, but there is conclusive evidence that this monument of the Buddhist canon existed well before the Christian era. Many scholars agree in ascribing its utterances to Buddha himself, while others are of the opinion that it is a compilation made by Buddhist monks from various sources. This classic religious text focuses on practical morality, which, if practiced earnestly and diligently, will lead the practitioner to Nirvana, the state of unconditioned eternal bliss. By following these injunctions, says the Buddha, ""the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm."""

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Friedrich Max M�ller (1823-1900) was a scholar and Orientalist. He is best known as the editor of The Sacred Books of the East, a fifty-volume set of English translations of canonical texts of the major eastern religions. Friedrich Max M�ller (1823-1900) was a scholar and Orientalist. He is best known as the editor of The Sacred Books of the East, a fifty-volume set of English translations of canonical texts of the major eastern religions. Denis Daly is an audiobook narrator and co-director of Voices of Today, an Australian spoken word production house.

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