Dear Roger,

I am not sure if this is the recommended order of reading Suttas, but it could be as in the revered Sinhala collection Pirit Potha ("Book of Protection") which includes 24 suttas from different Nikaayas. (An English translation of it by Piyadassi Thera can be found here: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/piyadassi/protection.html).

It is an interesting question if there is some traditional fixed order of studying Suttas. I have encountered with such beliefs regarding texts in other traditions (f.e. in Neo-Platonism, Vedanta, Sufism), so why not in Buddhism too? I just don't know but maybe a similar thing exists.

With metta,
Ardavarz

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Roger Garin-Michaud <wangchuk59@...> wrote:
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> Hello friends,
> in reading the message about the First Sermon of the Buddha i began to wonder in which
> order one should read the sutras ?
> Any advice on that ?
> And what would be nowadays the best translation in English ?
> Thanks for your help !
> Roger Garin-Michaud
> still living in Brisbane, Australia
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> From: yongpeng.ong <palismith@...>
> To: Pali@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sun, 18 October, 2009 8:52:04 AM
> Subject: [Pali] Re: First Sermon of the Buddha
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> Dear friends,
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> allow me to paraphrase:
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> In Anattalakkhana, his second sermon, the Buddha discussed non-self (anatta), impermanence (anicca). Together with dukkha from the first sutta, the doctrine of the trio of characteristics, tilakkhana - the Buddhist philosophical view of existence - is now complete.
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> metta,
> Yong Peng.
>
> --- In Pali@... com, yongpeng.ong wrote:
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> In Anattalakkhana, his second sermon, the Buddha discussed non-self (anatta), impermanence (anicca). Together with dukkha - the Buddhist philosophical view of existence - from the first sutta, the doctrine of the trio of characteristics, tilakkhana is now complete.
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