How many suttas to learn the gist of the dhamma

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This selection by Bhikkhu Bodhi covers most of the key concepts:

In the Buddha’s Words

Note: This post is reproduced from Dhamma Wheel. This post gives links to freely-available versions of the suttas included in Bhikkhu Bodhi’s book. More details of this excellent book, and the Introduction for each chapter, are available at Wisdom Publications. You can read some of it at Amazon and Google Books. Note that there are talks by Bhikkhu Bodhi, based on this book, here (you will need to scroll down to find them). There are bound to be errors in the links. Please report them! EDIT:…