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**Tazqoaap** · 08-29-2010, 12:02 PM

Hi, Gary,

I would recommend the Samyutta Nikaya, the "Connected Discourses". It comes as a two-volume set, and the discourses (suttas) are organized according to themes, much more than any other collection of discourses.

http://www.amazon.com/Connected-Disc...3054306&sr=1-1

Majjhima Nikaya, the "Middle-Length Discourses", translated by Bhikkhu Nanamoli, with some editing and notations by Bhikkhu Bodhi.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Middle-Length-Sa...item3f02955e6f

I have seen a couple of the anthologies, and they seem to tend to cherry-pick somewhat in order to steer the reader toward the editor's view, which often does not necessarily reflect the Buddha's own teachings. I prefer to "hear it from the horse's mouth" -- and that would be the two sets I recommend.

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Tazqoaap Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 577 Senior Member	Hi, Gary, I would recommend the Samyutta Nikaya, the "Connected Discourses". It comes as a two-volume set, and the discourses (suttas) are organized according to themes, much more than any other collection of discourses. http://www.amazon.com/Connected-Disc...3054306&sr=1-1 Majjhima Nikaya, the "Middle-Length Discourses", translated by Bhikkhu Nanamoli, with some editing and notations by Bhikkhu Bodhi. http://cgi.ebay.com/Middle-Length-Sa...item3f02955e6f I have seen a couple of the anthologies, and they seem to tend to cherry-pick somewhat in order to steer the reader toward the editor's view, which often does not necessarily reflect the Buddha's own teachings. I prefer to "hear it from the horse's mouth" -- and that would be the two sets I recommend.
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