Dhammapada: Footsteps of the Truth

There is a great site I discovered with Matt, a fellow Missoula meditator and Pali-farer, that has the Dhammapada in Pali, with English translation and the stories used to illustrate each verse.

Yamaka Verse 1 (wav)
Yamaka 2 (mp3)
Yamaka 3 (mp3)
Yamaka 4 (mp3)
Yamaka 5 (mp3)
Yamaka 6 (mp3)
Yamaka 7 (mp3)
Yamaka 8 (mp3)
Yamaka 9 (mp3)
Yamaka 10 (mp3)

It’s very helpful to hear the verses chanted as you read them. A note on reading though: unfortunately the sight doesn’t have the diacritical marks on the letters (such as the macron over the ‘a’ making it a long ‘a’: ā). These are important because they alter the metre of the chant as well as the sounds of the words. If you can find a version online that preserves the diacritics, please let me know 🙂

Thanks and happy listening!

-update: many thanks to Ashin (in comments) for directing us to this version of the Dhammapada, which preserves all diacritics. You will most likely need the fonts, available here, installed on your computer: run the exe version to make this quick and easy. Then restart and bingo, you should be reading Pali.