Piya Tan

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Chinese Buddhist Teachers Category:Translators
MainNamePhon	Piya Tan
MainNameChi	陈明信
namealt	Piya Tan Beng Sin
bio	Piya Tan, who works on the Sutta Discovery Project . . . was a former Theravada monk for 20 years. Today he is a full time lay Dharma teacher specializing in early Buddhism. He was consultant and regu­lar lec­tur­er to the Buddh­ist Studies Team (BUDS) that success­fully introduced Buddhist Studies in Singa­pore Sec­ondary Schools in the 1980s. After that, he was invited as a visiting scholar to the University of California at Berkeley, USA. He has written many ground-breaking and educational books on Buddhism (such as Total Bud­dhist Work) and social surveys (such as Buddhist Currents and Charisma in Buddhism). As a full-time Dharma teacher, he runs Buddhist, Sutta and Pali class­es like the basic Pali course series, the Sutta Study Group (NUSBS), Dharma courses (the Singapore Buddhist Federa­tion), Sutta Discovery classes (Buddhist Fellow­ship and else­where), and Sutta-based (including meditation) courses (Brahm Educa­tion Cen­tre), besides his own full-time Pali trans­lation and research project, the Pali House, and doing a compara­tive study of the Pali Nikayas and the Chinese Agamas. As a Theravada monk, he learned insight meditation from Mahasi Sayadaw himself in the 1980s. As a lay teacher, he learned forest meditation from the Ajahn Brahma­vamso. He has run numerous medi­ta­tion courses and retreats for students and adults (including non-Buddh­ists) since 1980s. In 1992, he taught meditation at the University of California at Berkeley, USA, and also to BP, JPMorgan, the Defence Science Organization, GMO, HP and SIA. He is doing all this for the love of Dharma and of Ratna and their two children. (Source Accessed Nov 10 2020)
YearBirth	1949/08/20
BornIn	Malacca, Malaysia
associatedwebsite	themindingcentre.org
affiliation	The Minding Centre (TMC)
religiousaffiliation	Theravāda
IsInGyatsa	No
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