{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Buddhism","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bud_dhp_preface_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bud_dhp_preface_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bud_dhp_preface_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/dhp/preface.htm","summary":"Another translation of the Dhammapada. Many other English translations are already available -- the fingers of at least five people would be needed to count them -- so I suppose that a new translation has to be justified, to prove that it's not \"just\" another one. In doing so, though, I'd rather not criticize the efforts of earlier translators, for I owe them a great debt.","tags":["Buddhist Ethical Verse","Dhammapada","Pali Canon"],"text":null,"title":"Dhammapada: Preface","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Buddhism","translated_text":null,"word_count":378}