Are there any anthologies or collections of key Buddhist texts

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>>9647715
Thanks anon but I'm guessing the answer is 'no'.

Oh well. If anyone is interested in the history of Buddhism I'd recommend reading Richard Gombrich's "Theravaada Buddhism : A Social History from Ancient Benares to Modern Colombo", and Hajime Nakamura's "Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples".

Also Nakamura wrote a highly esteemed 2 volume biography of Buddha titled "Gotama Buddha: A Biography Based on the Most Reliable Texts" but I can't find it anywhere.

The closest thing would be the Pali Canon, huge and it not translated fully, so you would have to learn Pali to read it all.

There are also many different Buddhist traditions, with their own texts, commentaries on those texts and so on.

Selections from the Pali Canon:
Basic Teachings of the Buddha (Glenn Wallis)
Sayings of the Buddha (Rupert Gethin)
Early Buddhist Discourses (John H. Holder)
In the Buddha's Words (Bhikkhu Bodhi) + his other anthologies

Other traditions:
Buddhist Scriptures (Donald S. Lopez)
Buddhist Scriptures (Edward Conze)

>>9646784

I believe the "Dhammapada" is the standard go-to recommendation, and that particular title should clarify your searches and further inquiries.

This is a translation that I would try:
>https://www.amazon.com/Dhammapada-Translation-Buddhist-Classic-Annotations/dp/1590303806

This edition is annotated, but unlike your edition of the Bible, it was published by a company that specializes in various Eastern religions, self-help, and Tibetan linguistics, not academic literature:
>http://www.shambhala.com/

Also, please be advised that my recommendation is based on the trust I would place in the translator, Gil Fronsdal.

He is heavily involved with two separate podcast projects, Zencast and Dharma Seed, and he has proven himself (to my satisfaction, anyways) to be sensitive both to being effective in Buddhism as a practice and to philosophically interesting distinctions, such as that between phenomenal states like experience versus mental states involving cognition.

This is not something I would say about most of the other practicing monks running around out there.

Listen for yourself, if you like, the links below are readings straight from his translation of the Dhammapada.
>http://www.insightmeditationcenter.org/books-articles/dhammapada/