[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Dharmapada anthologies](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada) › [Udānavarga](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga) › [Ched du brjod pa'i tshoms (Kangyur, Toh 326)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo) › Popular Quotations from the Udānavarga # Popular Quotations from the Udānavarga Translation of [Ched du brjod pa'i tshoms (Kangyur, Toh 326)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo) - **Language:** English - **Date:** 2004 CE - **Translator:** [Adam Pearcey](https://indike.org/pramana/person/adam-pearcey) - **Extent:** 20 passages, 342 words - **Text:** partly digitised - **Source:** lotsawahouse · Adam Pearcey (tr.), Popular Quotations from the Udānavarga, Lotsawa House (version 1.0–20250925) · CC BY-NC 4.0 (Lotsawa House); shown with attribution on a non-commercial site ## Contents - [p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p1) - [p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p2) - [p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p3) - [p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p4) - [p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p5) - [p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p6) - [p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p7) - [p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p8) - [p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p9) - [p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p10) - [p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p11) - [p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p12) - [p13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p13) - [p14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p14) - [p15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p15) - [p16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p16) - [p17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p17) - [p18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p18) - [p19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p19) - [p20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p20) ## Text ### [p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p1) Popular Quotations from the Udānavarga ### [p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p2) from the Words of the Buddha ### [p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p3) བསགས་པ་ཀུན་གྱི་མཐའ་ཟད་ཅིང༌། ། བསླང་བའི་མཐའ་ནི་འགྱེལ་བར་འགྱུར། ། ཕྲད་པའི་མཐའ་ན་བྲལ་བ་སྟེ། ། གསོན་པའི་མཐའ་ནི་འཆི་བར་འགྱུར། ། ### [p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p4) All that is gathered will disperse. What has risen will ultimately fall. The end of meeting is separation. Whoever lives will ultimately die. ### [p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p5) Chapter 1, verse 22 ### [p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p6) འཇིག་རྟེན་པ་ཡི་ཡང་དག་ལྟ། ། ཆེན་པོ་སུ་ལ་ཡོད་གྱུར་པ། ། དེ་ནི་ཚེ་རབས་སྟོང་དུ་ཡང་། ། ངན་འགྲོར་འགྲོ་བར་མི་འགྱུར་རོ། ། ### [p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p7) Any great one, whoever they might be, Who holds the correct worldly view Will not travel to the lower realms For a thousand of their future lives. ### [p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p8) Chapter 4, verse 9. ### [p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p9) དགེ་བ་ཆུང་བྱས་བདག་ཉིད་ཀྱི། ། ཕྱི་བཞིན་མི་འོང་མ་སེམས་ཤིག ། ཆུ་ཡི་ཐིགས་པ་ལྷུང་བ་ཡིས། ། བུམ་ཆེན་གང་བ་ཇི་བཞིན་དུ། ། ཅུང་ཟད་ཅུང་ཟད་བསགས་པ་ཡི། ། དགེ་བས་བརྟན་པ་གང་བར་འགྱུར། ། ### [p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p10) Do not disregard small positive acts, Thinking they are not worthwhile. Just as even tiny drops of water Will eventually fill a large container, The accumulation of many minor deeds Will fully endow the steadfast with virtue. ### [p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p11) Chapter 17, verse 6. ### [p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p12) ཐོས་པས་ཆོས་རྣམས་རྣམ་པར་ཤེས། ། ཐོས་པས་སྡིག་ལས་ལྡོག་པར་འགྱུར། ། ཐོས་པས་དོན་མེད་སྤོང༌བར་བྱེད། ། ཐོས་པས་མྱ་ངན་འདས་པ་ཐོབ། ། ### [p13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p13) Through study, we come to understand dharmas. Through study, we turn away from misdeeds. Through study, we give up what is meaningless. Through study, we reach the state beyond sorrow. ### [p14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p14) Chapter 22, verse 4 ### [p15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p15) སྡིག་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་མི་བྱ་སྟེ། ། དགེ་བ་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་པར་བྱ། ། རང་གི་སེམས་ནི་ཡོངས་སུ་གདུལ། ། འདི་ནི་སངས་རྒྱས་བསྟན་པ་ཡིན། ། ### [p16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p16) Commit not a single unwholesome action, Cultivate a wealth of virtue, Tame completely this mind of ours— This is the teaching of the buddhas.\[1\] ### [p17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p17) Chapter 28, verse 1 ### [p18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p18) ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྔོན་དུ་ཡིད་འགྲོ་སྟེ། ། ཡིད་མགྱོགས་ཡིད་ནི་གཙོ་བོ་ཡིན། ། ### [p19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p19) Mind precedes all dharmas; Mind is swift; mind is paramount. ### [p20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey.p20) Chapter 31, verse 25 --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*bo~en-pearcey) · Pramāṇa