DISPLAY‐DHAMMAPADA(6)

📦 version 2.0, in ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

display‐dhammapada — and yeah bestie, this is section 6 of the manual, the display-dhammapada man page itself. We're doing wisdom-on-demand here. 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

display‐dhammapada [ARGUMENT] [TRANSLATION]

So here's the vibe: this little cutie augments fortune-dhammapada so it can speak your locale (German or Polish, hiii 🌸), prints a verse from the Dhammapada — either the one you asked for or a random one — and it also hands you the translation notes. Periodt.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so the Dhammapada? It's an anthology of 423 verses taken from the Kuddaka Nikaya part of the Theravada Pali Canon. It's literally full of Buddhist ethical and spiritual precepts. Iconic behavior. 👑

The translations you can get: 2 English translations (one by John Richard, one by F. Max Muller), plus German, plus Polish. A whole international queen. 🌍

NOTE: Verses may have multiple paragraphs or numbers associated with nature of the Dhammapada. So don't come for the formatting, it's the text's own vibe. 😭

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

  • number [1-423] — print the verse with that number. Pick your fave, 1 through 423, no notes.
  • all — print all the verses. Every single one. Buckle up bestie. 🔥
  • about — print the translation notes. The lore behind the translation, iykyk.

🎀 TRANSLATIONS 🎀

Defaults to German or Polish locale — otherwise all other locales default to the English translation by Richards. Cute, right?

  • r | ‐r — use Richard's translation. (this is the default)
  • m | ‐m — use Muller's translation.
  • de | ‐de — use the German translation (default for Polish locale)
  • pl | ‐pl — use the Polish translation (default for German locale)

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

  • display‐dhammapada — displays a random verse from Richard's translation. 🎲
  • display‐dhammapada -m — displays a random verse from Muller's translation.
  • display‐dhammapada 1 — displays verse 1 from Richard's translation.
  • display‐dhammapada m 32 — displays verse 32 from Muller's translation.
  • display‐dhammapada all — displays all verses (default Richard's).
  • display‐dhammapada about — displays translation notes (default Richard's).

🫶 SUGGESTIONS 🫶

Not guaranteed to work as these rely on external programs. So like… the energy is there, the guarantee is not. 🙈

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. Main character entrance, every single time. ✨

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

display‐dhammapada can be used with the KDE "amor" in the kdetoys package. Refer to the KDE documentation for details. 🧚

One can automatically attach a Dhammapada verse in an e-mail footer. To do this with mutt, add set signature=display-dhammapada| in your ~/.muttrc file. Spiritual wisdom in every sign-off, obsessed. 💌

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • /usr/games/display‐dhammapada
  • /usr/share/display-dhammapada/dhammapada.about
  • /usr/share/display-dhammapada/dhammapada.m.about
  • /usr/share/display-dhammapada/dhammapada.de.about
  • /usr/share/display-dhammapada/dhammapada.pl.about

💀 BUGS 💀

Please report bugs on: https://gitlab.com/bodhi.zazem/display‐dhammapada

(Tell them, bestie. They wanna know.) 🫶

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

fortunes-dhammapada fortune-mod

👑 AUTHORS 👑

display-dhammapada was originally written by Richard Cepas <rch@online.lt> and later modified by bodhi.zazen to be compatible with fortune. Glow-up arc, fr fr. ✨

Copyright GPL v3

Home Page: https://gitlab.com/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/

German translation (by http://www.zeno.org - Contumax GmbH & Co. KG): Public Domain (Gemeinfrei, as explained at http://www.zeno.org/Zeno/-/Lizenz%3A+Gemeinfrei

aaaand that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this was display-dhammapada 2.0, dated January 2026, and it lives in section 6 of the manual. go read a verse, you deserve it. 💖🌸🦋

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