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/

1.0                                                April 2003                              DISPLAY‐DHAMMAPADA(1)