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.\" -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
.DD April 13, 2003
.TH DISPLAY-DHAMMAPADA 1 "late 20th - early 21th century"
.SH NAME
display-dhammapada \- display a verse from the Dhammapada
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B display-dhammapada
[-r | -m | -b | -pl] [<num> | all]
.br
.B dp
[-r | -m | -b | -pl] [<num> | all]
.br
.B xdp
[<num>]
.SH OPTIONS
.TP 8
.B -r
Use the Richards translation (default).
.TP 8
.B -m
Use the Muller translation.
.TP 8
.B -b
Display corresponding verses from both translations.
.TP 8
.B -pl
Use the Polish translation (default for Polish locale).
.TP 8
.B <num>
Print the given number verse.
.TP 8
.B all
Print all the verses.
.P
With no arguments a random verse is printed.
.SH 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.
.P
.B display-dhammapada
prints to the standard output.
.P
.B xdp
prints using
.B xmessage
on an X Window screen, or in bold using
.B tputs
on a text terminal.
.SH EXAMPLES
To display a verse each time you log in on a terminal, put
.B display-dhammapada
or
.B xdp
in your
.IR ~/.profile ,
.I ~/.bash_profile
or
.IR ~/.login ,
as appropriate for your shell.
.P
To display a verse each time you log in on X Window, put
.B xdp
in your
.IR ~/.xsession .
.P
KDE has "amor" toy that can display various tips. To use the dhammapada for that enter these commands at shell prompt:
.LP
.nf
mkdir ~/.kde/share/apps/amor
display-dhammapada -r all |perl -0777 -pe 's/\en\es*\en\es*\en/\en%\en/g' >~/.kde/share/apps/amor/tips
.fi
.\" $bash1$ display-dhammapada -r all |perl -0777 -pe 's/\n\s*\n\s*\n/\n%\n/g' >~/.kde/share/apps/amor/tips
.Ed
Then start amor K->Toys->Amor, right click on amor animation, select "Options" and check "Show random tips".
.SH FILES
.I /usr/share/display-dhammapada/dhammapada-english-transl.txt
.br
.I /usr/share/display-dhammapada/dhammapada-alternate.txt
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR xmessage (1),
.BR tput (1).
.SH BUGS
You may found that xmessage and hence xdp is broken on XFree 4.0x if you have *international resource set.
.SH AUTHORS
Program: Copyright \(co 1997-2003 Richard Cepas, placed in the public domain.
.br
See http://www.angelfire.com/me/rch/dd.html
.P
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
.P
Muller's translation of the Dhammapada: Public Domain, used here courtesy of
Project Gutenberg.