The Dhammapada, possibly the most popular and best-known of all Buddhist texts, sums up ""in the simplest language the core teachings of the Buddha,"" as Jack Kornfield writes in the foreword.

Dhammapada is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka Nikaya, ...