{"id":2583,"date":"2010-08-10T12:08:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T04:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dharmafarer.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=2583"},"modified":"2025-03-11T19:16:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T11:16:02","slug":"essays-by-piya-tan-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/sutta-discovery\/essays-by-piya-tan-2","title":{"rendered":"Selected Essays fr SD"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"650\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<th colspan=\"4\">\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Selected Essays from Sutta Discovery<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20\"><strong><span style=\"color: #888888;\">SD No.<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"180\"><strong><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Chapter Title<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"150\"><strong><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Sutta reference<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Theme<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"color: #000000;\">38.4<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/38.4-Love-piya.pdf\">Love<\/a>:\u00a0a Buddhist perspective on friendship, humanity and life<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Love: a Buddhist perspective on friendship, humanity and life.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">38.5<\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"180\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/38.5-Brahmavihara-piya.pdf\">Brahmavihara<\/a>: the divine abode<\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"80\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The practical cultivation of divinity in man.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">39.1<\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"180\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/39.1-Group-karma-piya.pdf\">Group Karma<\/a>: An early Buddhist perspective.<\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"80\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">M 130.4; A 3.35; M 142.8; A 3.57; Mv 11.1; Vv 5.1; VvA 216-219; A 5.148; D 31; A 3.69.<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Group karma? An early Buddhist perspective.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>59.6<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/59.6-Partial-precepts.-piya.pdf\">Partial precepts<\/a><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Buddhism: academic study and text-based practice<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">64.17<\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"180\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-content\/uploads\/64.17-Bad-friendship.-piya.pdf\">Bad friendship<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"80\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">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.<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Avoiding unwholesome teacher-pupil relationship and abuse of religion.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">66.13<\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"180\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/66.13-Monastics-sex-marriage.-piya.pdf\">Monastics, sex and marriage<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"80\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Renunciation, monastic celibacy and the challenges of secularism and modernism\u00a0with special reference to Japanese Buddhism up to the end of the 20<span style=\"font-size: 9px;\">th<\/span> century<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">89.10<\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"180\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themindingcentre.org\/dharmafarer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/89.10-Bhattuddesaka-S-a4.20-piya.pdf\">Bhattuddesaka Sutta<\/a>: <span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Discourse on the Meal-steward<\/span><\/td>\n<td width=\"80\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A 4.20\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0Freedom from the 4 biases<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"180\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"80\"><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"180\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"80\"><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"180\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"80\"><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"180\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"80\"><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"180\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"80\"><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"180\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"80\"><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"180\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"80\"><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"180\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"80\"><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"180\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"80\"><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td 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