الدامابادا

Translation: Saadi Youssef Number of pages: 140 Published by Dar Al-Takween for Printing and Publishing in Damascus Recently published is the book (The Dhammapada... The Sacred Book of Buddha) translated by the great creator (Saadi Youssef), who introduced his project by saying: (The Dhammapada book contains all that Buddha (563-483 BC) said. It is likely that these sayings were collected in northern India, in the third century BC, and mainly recorded in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in the first century BC. Dhamma means, among other things, law, justice, fairness, obedience, truth. Pada means: path, step, foot, foundation. The Dhammapada texts spread and were recorded in Pali, the doctrinal language of Southern Buddhism, and became the main scripture for Buddhists in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia. In my translation, which I called – the Quran of Buddha – I was selective, considering the sensitivity of my language and my Arab nationality, and what they believe, without disrespecting, even for a moment of forgetfulness, the respect for Buddhist belief and the text. And I must say that I translated into my Arabic language, here, most of Buddha’s book.)