The Dhammapada, or Path to Virtue, is one of the most practical ethical handbooks of Buddhism. It is included in the canon of Buddhistic Scriptures and is one of the Eastern books which can be read with delight to-day by those who are classed as general readers. It is divided into twenty-six chapters, and the keynote of it is struck by the sentence The virtuous man is happy in this world, and he is happy in the next, he is happy in both. He is happy when he thinks of the good he has done, he is still more happy, when going on the good path.
