SD 60 – 69 (in progress)

In progress …

Note: (a) A sutta whose title is preceded by an asterisk (*) means that it is only an excerpt. (b) All files are in pdf.

Celebrating 20 years (2002-2023) of full-time sutta translation and teaching by Piya Tan (TAN Beng Sin) assisted by Ratna Lim and family:

Handbook of Meditation in Society 1 + 2, 3, 4,5 (SD 60ab, SD 60c, SD 60d, SD 60e) by Piya Tan: covers/imprints/detailed contents [download].

Handbook of Meditation in Society 1 & 2 by Piya Tan

SD 60ab: Character analysis; and Samatha, Vipassana, Kammatthana (2022a, 2023 rev) [ISBN 978–981–18–5504–7]

“Meditation is the ground from which we rise into the space of freedom.”
SD No.Sutta or Chapter TitleSutta referenceTheme
60.1ab

SD 60.1ab cover & TMC activities

SD 60.1ab Cover, imprint, detailed contents

 Character analysis; types of meditation: samatha, vipassana, kammatthana.
60.1abSD 60.1ab Handbook of Meditation in Society 1 & 2

SD 60ab cover

Note: (a) A sutta whose title is preceded by an asterisk (*) means that it is only an excerpt. (b) All files are in pdf.

Handbook of Meditation in Society 3 by Piya Tan

SD 60c: The rhetoric of Buddhist Experience: A psychosocial exploration of modern Buddhism (2022b).

“Buddhism is daily experience fully and joyfully understood.”
 
SD No.Sutta or Chapter TitleSutta referenceTheme
60.1cSD 60.1c Cover, imprint and detailed contents  
60.1c

SD 60.1c The rhetoric of Buddhist Experience

 

A psychosocial exploration of modern Buddhism.

Handbook of Meditation in Society 4 by Piya Tan

SD 60d: An Evolutionary Psychology of Mindfulness: Buddhist experience: the individual and society (2023a).

“Mindfulness is knowing ourself so that we awaken to true freedom.”
 
SD No.Sutta or Chapter TitleSutta referenceTheme
60.1dSD 60.1d Cover, imprint and detailed contents.  
60.1d

SD 60.1d An evolutionary psychology of mindfulness.

 Buddhist experience: the individual and society

Handbook of Meditation in Society 5 by Piya Tan

SD 60e: Delusion and Experience: Epistemology, psychology and the Abhidhamma 2023b).

“What we know is what we sense: thinking makes sense of it.”
 
SD No.Sutta or Chapter TitleSutta referenceTheme
 60.1eSD 60.1e Cover and Detailed contents.  
60.1e

SD 60.1e Delusion and Experience.

 Epistemology, psychology and the Abhidhamma.

Selected essays from Piya Tan’s SD series (SD 60 onwards)

SD No.Sutta or Chapter TitleSutta referenceTheme
64.17 Bad friendship Tha 387-392; S 5.35; Dh 33 f; S 6.2.8; D 16.2.26; Dh 160; A 5.88; U 4.1.7. Avoiding unwholesome teacher-pupil relationship and abuse of religion.
66.13Monastics, sex and marriage 
Renunciation, monastic celibacy and the challenges of secularism and modernism with special reference to Japanese Buddhism up to the end of the 20th century
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
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