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)