dhamma
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of dhamma
from Pali, from Sanskrit: see dharma
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If this be thought to rest on a mistranslation, it is certainly true that the dhamma had very little to do with devas.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Sir Charles Eliot
The Pali expression kalyamo dhamma is here translated "glorious doctrine."
From The Buddha A Drama in Five Acts and Four Interludes by Paul Carus
He evidently accepted his teachers' general ideas about belief and conduct—a dhamma, a vinaya, and the practice of meditation—but rejected the content of their teaching as inadequate.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Sir Charles Eliot
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