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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] .
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.”
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.”
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.”
Selected essays from Piya Tan’s SD series (SD 60 onwards) SD No. Sutta or Chapter Title Sutta reference Theme 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. 66.13 Monastics, 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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